Costco, Walmart or Loblaws? Here's which store has the cheapest Halloween candy prices
Coffee Crisp, Aero, Ruffles, Swedish Berries, Caramilk, Mars, Twix, and more!
It's the season for Halloween candy, chocolate and chips at grocery stores in Canada.
Whether you're buying for trick-or-treaters or buying for yourself, Narcity compared prices at Costco, Walmart and Loblaws.
That includes chocolate like Coffee Crisp, KitKat, Caramilk, Mars and Twix, candy like Twizzlers, Swedish Berries and Sour Patch Kids and chips like Ruffles.
Narcity went to all three stores, looked for similar products, checked prices and then compared costs.
So, here's what you need to know about the Halloween candy, chocolate and chips and which store has the cheapest products.
Coffee Crisp, KitKat, Aero and Smarties
Coffee Crisp, KitKat, Aero and Smarties at Costco. Centre: Coffee Crisp, KitKat, Aero and Smarties at Walmart. Right: Coffee Crisp, KitKat, Aero and Smarties at Loblaws.
All three stores have packs of Coffee Crisp, KitKat, Aero and Smarties chocolate, but Costco has full-sized bars, while Walmart and Loblaws have treat-sized bars.
It costs $21.99 for a 1.08-kilogram box of 24 full-sized bars at Costco, which works out to $2.03 per 100 grams and $0.91 per chocolate.
It costs $15.97 for a 977-gram box of 100 treat-sized bars at Walmart, which is $1.63 per 100 grams and $0.15 per chocolate.
It costs $24 for a 977-gram box of 100 treat-sized bars at Loblaws, which breaks down to $2.45 per 100 grams and $0.24 per chocolate.
Walmart is $0.40 cheaper per 100 grams than Costco and $0.82 cheaper per 100 grams than Loblaws for this product.
Caramilk, Dairy Milk Oreo and Twirl
Dairy Milk Oreo, Cadbury Toffee Crunch, Twirl and Caramilk at Costco. Centre: Dairy Milk Oreo, Caramilk, Wunderbar and Twirl at Walmart. Right: Dairy Milk Oreo, Caramilk, Wunderbar and Twirl at Loblaws.
These stores have the Cadbury treat-size bar variety pack with Caramilk, Dairy Milk Oreo and Twirl chocolate, but Costco includes Cadbury Toffee Crunch, while Walmart and Loblaws include Wunderbar.
It costs $17.99 for a 1.3-kilogram box with 120 chocolates at Costco, which breaks down to $1.38 per 100 grams and $0.14 per chocolate.
It costs $15.48 for a 993-gram box with 90 chocolates at Walmart, which works out to $1.55 per 100 grams and $0.17 per chocolate.
It costs $22 for a 993-gram box with 90 chocolates at Loblaws, which is $2.21 per 100 grams and $0.24 per chocolate.
Costco is $0.17 cheaper per 100 grams than Walmart and $0.83 cheaper per 100 grams than Loblaws for this product.
Ruffles chips
Ruffles chips at Walmart. Right: Ruffles chips at Loblaws.
Both Walmart and Loblaws have boxes of snack-sized Ruffles chips.
It costs $12.97 for a 640-gram box of Ruffles chips with 40 snack-sized bags at Walmart.
It costs $12.99 for a 640-gram box of Ruffles chips with 40 snack-sized bags at Loblaws.
Walmart is $0.02 cheaper than Loblaws for this product.
Mars, Twix, Snickers and peanut M&M's
Mars, Twix, Snickers and peanut M&M's at Costco. Right: Mars, Twix, Snickers and peanut M&M's at Walmart.
Both Costco and Walmart have the treat-sized Mars, Twix, Snickers and peanut M&M's chocolates for Halloween.
It costs $23.99 for a 1.48-kilogram box with 140 treat-sized chocolates at Costco, which works out to $1.62 per 100 grams and $0.17 per chocolate.
It costs $14.97 for a one-kilogram box with 95 treat-sized chocolates at Walmart, which breaks down to $1.49 per 100 grams and $0.15 per chocolate.
Walmart is $0.13 cheaper per 100 grams than Costco for this product.
Twizzlers
Twizzlers at Costco. Centre: Twizzlers and Jolly Rancher gummies at Walmart. Right: Twizzlers and Jolly Rancher gummies at Loblaws.
Each store has treat-sized Twizzlers, but the Costco pack has more flavour varieties, while the Walmart and Loblaws packs have Jolly Rancher gummies.
It costs $14.99 for a 1.3-kilogram bag with 109 pieces at Costco, which works out to $1.15 per 100 grams and $0.13 per piece.
It costs $12.97 for a 1.02-kilogram bag with 100 pieces at Walmart, which is $1.27 per 100 grams and $0.12 per piece.
It costs $20 for a 1.02-kilogram bag with 100 pieces at Loblaws, which breaks down to $1.96 per 100 grams and $0.20 per piece.
Costco is $0.12 cheaper per 100 grams than Walmart and $0.81 cheaper per 100 grams than Loblaws for this Halloween candy.
Reese's, Oh Henry, Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme and Whoppers
Reese's, Oh Henry, Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme and Whoppers at Walmart. Right: Reese's, Oh Henry, Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme and Whoppers at Loblaws.
Walmart and Loblaws have bags of Reese's Cups, Reese's Pieces, Oh Henry, Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme and Whoppers chocolate for Halloween.
It costs $12.97 for a 962-gram bag with 100 chocolates at Walmart.
It costs $20 for a 962-gram bag with 100 chocolates at Loblaws.
Walmart is $7.03 cheaper than Loblaws for this product!
Swedish Berries and Sour Patch Kids
Swedish Berries and Sour Patch Kids at Costco. Right: Swedish Berries, Sour Patch Kids, Fuzzy Peach and Swedish Fish at Loblaws.
Costco and Loblaws have Halloween candy boxes with Swedish Berries and Sour Patch Kids, but the Loblaws pack also has Fuzzy Peach and Swedish Fish.
It costs $23.99 for a 1.9-kilogram box with 150 pieces at Costco, which breaks down to $1.26 per 100 grams and $0.15 per piece.
It costs $19 for a 1.12-kilogram box with 90 pieces at Loblaws, which is $1.78 per 100 grams and $0.21 per piece.
Costco is $0.52 cheaper per 100 grams than Loblaws for this Halloween candy.
Cheetos
Cheetos at Walmart. Right: Cheetos at Loblaws.
Walmart and Loblaws have boxes of snack-sized Cheetos for Halloween.
It costs $12.97 for a 640-gram box with 40 snack-sized bags at Walmart.
It costs $12.99 for a 640-gram box with 40 snack-sized bags at Loblaws.
Walmart is $0.02 cheaper than Loblaws for this product.
WHICH STORE HAS THE CHEAPEST HALLOWEEN CANDY?
Now that we've compared prices for eight Halloween candy, chocolate and chips at Costco, Walmart and Loblaws, let's break down which store has the lowest prices.
Costco is the cheapest store for the box of Dairy Milk Oreo, Cadbury Toffee Crunch, Twirl and Caramilk, the bag of Twizzlers and the box of Swedish Berries and Sour Patch Kids.
Walmart is the cheapest store for the box of Coffee Crisp, KitKat, Aero and Smarties, the box of Ruffles, the box of Mars, Twix, Snickers and M&M's, the bag of Reese's, Oh Henry, Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme and Whoppers, and the box of Cheetos.
None of the Halloween candy, chocolate or chips at Loblaws that Narcity compared have the lowest prices.
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European Investment Bank applies for exemption from foreign bank status
The European Investment Bank has applied for an exemption from foreign bank status in Canada, a move that would bring the lending arm of the European Union one step closer to operating here.
The request was published today in the Canada Gazette, the government's weekly publication listing new regulations and official notices.
The bank and the Canadian government signed a letter of intent in March committing to look for new ways to work together in areas like critical minerals.
The goal of that letter is to help ensure stable supply chains for various minerals and metals used in the clean energy, tech and defence sectors.
The March letter says that while the arrangement does not create financial commitments, it was meant to start discussions on allowing the investment bank to operate in Canada.
This application comes ahead of the Canada-EU Summit in Montreal at the end of October, where Canada and the EU are expected to announce the next steps in a deepening partnership.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 16, 2026.
By David Baxter | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
Community papers connect remotely housed Albertans to satellite internet rebate
The target audience for a new rebate in Alberta may need the print version of their community newspaper to first learn that the satellite-facing program even exists.
Rebates worth up to $1,000 are available until March 31 for hardware and installation costs to connect certain households to low-Earth-orbit satellites for internet service.
The challenge is that the 10,000 or so rural and remote households that qualify have, by definition, severely limited or non-existent internet access, a rural media roundtable organized by the provincial government heard Thursday.
The eligible homes are in areas of Alberta deprived of traditional ground-based internet because of distance and topography, Technology and Innovation Minister Nate Glubish told about a dozen rural media representatives.
That makes community newspapers distributed along Alberta’s roads less travelled particularly important, he confirmed.
Glubish said major outlets have given the story little attention and “don’t want to talk to me about it. But I appreciate that it's your readers who are going to be more interested in this anyways.”
The program draws from a joint federal-Alberta fund worth $755 million to blanket the province with broadband. The new rebate addresses rural and remote residents that fell between the cracks because — until now — reaching them hasn’t been affordable, practical or even possible, Glubish said.
The difference today is that satellites in low-Earth orbit have become widely available to internet providers and users in Alberta.
Earlier, the government would have had to entice satellite companies to expand their service, Glubish said.
“We knew they were going to expand here anyway, but it was going to cost us tens of millions of dollars to persuade them to come here first, rather than just allowing them to come here as they normally were going to. And that patience has paid off,” said Glubish, the UCP member representing Strathcona-Sherwood Park.
Alberta published a broadband strategy in January 2022 with the goal to hit 100 per cent connectivity by the end of this fiscal year.
The strategy said then that 67 per cent of rural Albertans and 80 per cent of the province’s Indigenous communities had unreliable internet access at federal target speeds.
But today, according to the minister’s office, the needle has moved dramatically.
An estimated 82.2 per cent of households in Alberta First Nations reserves have access to high-speed internet, up from just 19.6 per cent in 2019, the baseline cited in the strategy.
That represents an increase of about 8,400 on-reserve households, the ministry told The Macleod Gazette in an emailed follow-up to the roundtable.
Of all Alberta households, 98.2 per cent now have access to high-speed internet, said a news release on the rebate.
“I know it's been a long time coming. We've been working hard on this for the last four years,” Glubish told the roundtable.
“But I think we’re coming to the tail-end of an important initiative, and it's nice to see that we are getting close to achieving our goal of universal connectivity."
A “significant portion” of federal-provincial funding has gone towards improving reliable, non-satellite internet in Indigenous communities, he said.
“If there are any First Nations communities that are not yet covered, then absolutely, yes, they would be eligible to participate in this rebate program,” he said.
Affordability remains an issue for some rural Albertans, Glubish acknowledged. Living the remote life can be expensive, and paying a premium for internet service is one of those higher costs.
But “the biggest barrier … is the upfront investment for the hardware and the installation. And that's what this program addresses,” he said.
“So this will go a long way to helping anybody in a low-income scenario to be able to get their connection established.”
Connectivity keeps getting more important in the professional and personal lives of Albertans, Glubish said.
He pointed to education, employment, entrepreneurship, and medical and justice services as cornerstones of modern life that the internet has improved dramatically. “If you don't have connectivity, your options are limited."
Households that qualify for the rebate can purchase their satellite hardware and installation while the program is open, with eligible receipts dating from Aug. 11 of this year onward.
Hardware must be purchased from an authorized vendor to qualify. Rebates apply to satellite dishes, receiver kits and installation services and supplies. Receipts are submitted through an online portal.
Find out more at alberta.ca/alberta-satellite-rebate-program — assuming you have a way to connect to the internet.
“I think it's super important to get this message out to our rural newspapers,” said roundtable participant Lisa Sygutek, president of the Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association and the publisher and owner of the Crowsnest Pass Herald.
Sygutek also wanted to know how the rebate would be rolled out to Albertans who don’t have the connectively yet to apply or submit receipts online.
The ministry is working with organizations like Rural Municipalities of Alberta and with MLAs to share information on the rebate. It will monitor how effective its efforts are before looking at other communications measures, including direct mailing.
“Our goal is to try and make sure it's very clear that anybody who is likely to be eligible for this will know that this is an option available to them,” Glubish said.
Copyright 2026, The Macleod Gazette. All rights reserved.
George Lee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Macleod Gazette.

12 livres de croissance personnelle qui pourraient changer ta vie
Tu as fini l'école et tu as aucune idée quoi faire du reste de ta vie? Perso, j'ai commencé à lire des livres de croissance personnelle au début de la vingtaine. Quand j'étais jeune, j'avais une confiance en moi inébranlable et je me voyais au volant de ma BM, vivant dans un condo au Vieux-Port à 25 ans. Yeah right.
Il y avait tellement un grand écart entre la vie que j'avais en tête et mon quotidien (cet article témoigne de mon emploi du temps) que je me suis mise à faire énormément d'angoisse et à me sentir déprimée.
Ça a l'air super cliché, mais la lecture de plusieurs livres de type «psycho pop» m'a vraiment aidée. Bien entendu, lire un livre du genre ne changera pas ta vie du jour au lendemain. En fait, ta motivation va être ultra haute durant les jours suivant la fin du livre...puis l'angoisse revient. J'ai réalisé que c'est la lecture de plusieurs ouvrages sur différents sujets, étalée sur plusieurs années, qui a rebâti mon estime personnelle et ma facilité au bonheur.
PS: L'erreur à ne pas faire est d'acheter des livres sur le bonheur. Il vient tout seul quand tu fais la paix avec toi-même et que ton mode te vie te rend heureuse.
Voici donc une compilation de livres que j'ai beaucoup aimés, en français et en anglais:
I Am That Girl d'Alexis Jones
Ce livre m'a fait comprendre à quel point il faut travailler FORT pour se rendre où on veut. La pensée magique que tu vas devenir directrice de j'sais pas trop quelle entreprise avant 30 ans en étant lazy AF, ben tu dois l'effacer de ta tête immédiatement. Aussi, elle explique comment prendre du plaisir en trouvant ta passion.
L'art de la simplicité de Dominique Loreau
Si ton tiroir à maquillage est rempli de 42 produits que tu n'as pas utilisés depuis que tu sortais au Fuzzy et que tu gardes du vieux linge du Forever 21 en te disant que ça va revenir à la mode (tsé au pire tu peux le racheter à 12$ si ça revient en 2021), tu dois lire ce livre. Ça a été mon introduction au minimalisme, et maudit que je me suis sentie mieux après m'être débarrassée de trop de choses auxquelles j'étais attachée pour les mauvaises raisons.
Ces Françaises qui ne grossissent pas: Comment font-elles? de Mireille Guiliano
J'ai probablement lu 15 livres traitant de méthodes pour perdre du poids. Le hic? Tous les livres parlaient de régimes. Bien entendu, aucun n'a réellement changé ma façon de m'alimenter, jusqu'à ce que je découvre ce livre, qui traite davantage de la perception par rapport à la nourriture. As-tu déjà vu une Française ultra mince qui se privait de manger plein de cheese?
Sur le même sujet, ce livre de Dominique Loreau est également excellent (minimalisme dans l'assiette): L'art de la frugalité et de la volupté, inspiré de l'alimentation des Japonaises.
Strong Looks Better Naked de Khloé Kardashian
Moment cocasse: je suis à Vancouver dans un café et un beau jeune homme trop sociable vient me faire la jasette et me demande ce que je lis. Oui, il y a Khloé Kardashian à moitié nue sur la couverture. Mon frère a ri de moi quand j'ai recommandé ce livre à sa blonde... mais je promets que c'est inspirant. La plus jeune des Kardashian a toujours été considérée comme le vilain petit canard de la famille et a struggle toute sa jeune vingtaine avec son image personnelle (prise de poids, trop de boisson, déboires personnels, etc). Le livre parle de sa prise en main.
Le Secret de Rhonda Byrne
Oui, le livre qui a mauvaise réputation. Non, c'est pas le nom d'une secte! Perso, la loi de l'attraction a changé ma vie pour vrai. Quand je crois quelque chose avec AUCUN doute, genre il va y avoir un parking dans la prochaine rangée, ça arrive. Si le sujet t'intéresse, je te suggère de regarder ces 2 vidéos: Comment j'ai utilisé la loi de l'attraction pour perdre 70 livres et Comment arriver à la vie de tes rêves.
Je recommande aussi Le pouvoir de la même auteure, qui décrit la loi de l'attraction d'une façon plus simple. #fulllove
Le Why Café de John P. Strelecky
J'ai lu ce livre en quelques heures seulement. Si tu ne sais pas ce que tu veux dans la vie, tu dois lire ça. Une magnifique histoire qui t'aidera à trouver ta passion/mission personnelle et qui t'aidera à cesser d'accorder de l'importance aux choses (ou gens) qui grugent ton énergie.
Du même auteur: Le Safari de la vie (pour trouver tes 5 grands rêves de vie). PS: Je ne recommande pas Le Why Café 2.
Tremblez mais osez de Susan Jeffers
J'ai lu ce livre dans un moment hyper stressant de ma vie, à la croisée des chemins. Je devais prendre une grande décision concernant mon avenir professionnel et personnel, et ça m'a vraiment aidé à sauter dans le vide. Sans aucun regret! La vie de tes rêves est déjà en cours. Suffit juste de plonger dedans pour de vrai.
Who Moved My Cheese? de Spencer Johnson et Kenneth Blanchard
C'est mon chum qui l'a acheté et perso, le titre ne m'avait pas convaincue. Tu dois vraiment passer outre la couverture style années 80, ça vaut la peine! Si tu as de la misère à dealer avec le changement, ou si quelque chose qui s'en vient te fait peur, tu dois lire ceci. C'est un genre de fable super cute et vraiment efficace.
Le grand saut de Russ Harris
Ce livre m'a fait comprendre que des pensées négatives, c'est TRÈS normal. Tout le monde en a...tout le temps...même le Dalaï-Lama. L'auteur enseigne de bonnes façons de vivre avec et aide à chasser cette angoisse quotidienne.
Sur le même sujet, Le piège du bonheur m'a aussi aidé à gérer mes pensées pas lfun. Il ne faut jamais confondre pensées et émotions!
En passant, je te recommande d'écrire dans tes livres et de noter les pages les plus inspirantes. À laisser tout près de ton lit ou bien à un endroit stratégique pour que tu puisses lire un p'tit passage dès que tu te sens comme d'la marde. Parce que c'est toi la personne la plus importante de ta vie.