{"id":434656,"date":"2026-10-22T09:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434656\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:46:15","slug":"sw-florida-grocery-shopping-poll-are-halloween-candy-prices-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434656\/","title":{"rendered":"SW Florida Grocery Shopping Poll: Are Halloween candy prices scary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It seems like everything costs more these days and grocery shopping is right at the top of the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The average American grocery bill today is more than 30% higher than it was before the pandemic. A $200 basket of groceries before the pandemic rings up for $261 today. Food prices are still rising at a 2.9% clip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now, here comes Halloween to make us dig even deeper into our pockets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Which brings us to this week&#8217;s SW Florida Grocery Shopping poll question:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Question: Have rising grocery prices changed how much Halloween candy you buy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems like everything costs more these days and grocery shopping is right at the top of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-434656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434656","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=434656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}