{"id":216371,"date":"2026-04-02T18:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216371\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:21:13","slug":"easter-chocolate-prices-up-14-in-swfl-heres-where-to-find-deals-wink-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216371\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter chocolate prices up 14% in SWFL, here’s where to find deals | WINK Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Chocolate prices are up 14% earlier this year, just in time for Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n

WINK News anchors Corey Lazar and Taylor Petras went shopping to find the best deals on Easter candy. Drug stores offered the biggest savings.<\/p>\n

CVS is offering 25% off candy, including Reese’s Eggs. Walgreens has a buy one, get one for a dollar deal on the same product.<\/p>\n

At Walgreens, Stover bunnies are buy one, get one half off. Cadbury Eggs are buy five, get five free.<\/p>\n

Target and Walmart also have Easter candy available. At Target, a six-pack of Reese’s Eggs costs $6.29, and at Walmart, it’s almost $6.<\/p>\n

Hershey’s chocolate eggs are $5.29 at Target and $4.97 at Walmart. Cadbury Eggs are $1.49 at Target and $1.24 at Walmart.<\/p>\n

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According to RetailMeNot, 37% of people are looking for deals and sales on chocolates due to high prices. Another 26% say they’re cutting back on buying altogether.<\/p>\n

More than half of millennials say they will be buying Easter staples despite the price increases.<\/p>\n

Provided below are links to Walmart and Target\u2019s Easter candy deals:<\/p>\n

WalmartTarget<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Chocolate prices are up 14% earlier this year, just in time for Easter Sunday. WINK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4250,3837,7353,1917,20685,31888,325,115,914],"class_list":{"0":"post-216371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-charlotte","12":"tag-collaborator_gen_stories","13":"tag-collier","14":"tag-consumer","15":"tag-desoto","16":"tag-glades","17":"tag-lee","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}