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Businesses Prepare For Normal Halloween BUSINESSES PREPARE FOR NORMAL HALLOWEEN

Candy and chocolate sales soaring past Halloween 2021 and 2022

By Brian Paroff

FRED WILKES: After two long years, businesses are preparing for a full-forced return of Halloween this year. The past few years, COVID has impacted the holiday negatively, but that is now changing. N-C-C News’ Brian Paroff has more on how businesses are adjusting their strategies.

BRIAN PAROFF: Halloween 2022 is a symbolic day for many. After two long years without trick-or-treating, many cannot wait to celebrate like it’s 2019 again. But, for most businesses, things look a lot different than 2019. Three months ago, Hershey announced that they will not be able to meet demand for Halloween candy this year. This Syracuse chocolate shop owner says the pandemic has taught him to prepare better so he can avoid these situations.

ADAM MAZZONI: Now when I have six hundred boxes left, I’m ordering another thousand boxes instead of waiting until I get down to like 200 boxes.

PAROFF: I’m here outside “Sweet On Chocolate” in Armory Square where owner Adam Mazzoni says that Halloween usually kicks off a season of candy buying for holiday shoppers.

MAZZONI: Halloween like kicks off the holiday season… we’re into fall right now, people are starting to think about Thanksgiving, all the retail stores already have their Christmas stuff up, so it really just kind of jogs people’s memories that like “hey, we got some big holidays coming down”

PAROFF: With more business expected this year, those who are unprepared are likely to struggle. Although the last two years were tough for business, Mazzoni believes that most business owners have come out stronger on the other side.

MAZZONI: Moving into this season, we are better prepared, we have more inventory on things that we can of course stock up and hold onto, to just ensure that we have the items in case that there’s problems down the road.

Syracuse, N.Y. (NCC News)— After two very long years, businesses are finally preparing for a full-forced return of Halloween this year. However, the explosion of customers has left some businesses unprepared.

Three months ago, Hershey announced early on that they would not be able to meet the increased demand for Halloween candy this year. Other businesses, still cautious from the pandemic, began preparing for adversity months ago.

Although the last two years were anything but easy for business, many businesses have managed to come out stronger on the other side. 

“Now when I have 600 boxes left, I’m ordering another 1,000 boxes instead of waiting until I get down to like 200 boxes,” said Adam Mazzoni, owner of Sweet On Chocolate in downtown Syracuse. 

With candy and chocolate sales already soaring above 2020 levels, any candy or chocolate business left unprepared is susceptible to running out of inventory in a hurry. As a result, some businesses are making it a point to overprepare. 

“Moving into this season, we are better prepared, we have more inventory on things that we can of course stock up and hold onto, to just ensure that we have the items in case that there’s problems down the road,” said Mazzoni. 

In other words, businesses are learning that it’s better to be safe than sorry. 

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