Halloween candy is the latest grocery item to suffer from shrinkflation.

Sylvian Charlebois, the director of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food and Analytics Lab says candy has gotten smaller and there are less in some boxes and bags this year compared to last.

He says demand for Halloween candy has dropped with fewer kids going door to door, and that’s forcing manufactures to cut costs.

It’s not just candy says Charlebois, bags of chips are also smaller.

“Chocolate, for example, for Halloween, they’re about 10 grams on average, which is actually about 10 per cent less than last year. And also per box, per bag, you’re getting less. Instead of boxes of 50 or 100, you’re getting boxes of 45 or 95” says Charlebois. Chip bags meanwhile are also getting smaller, “you’re getting bags of 16 to 20 grams now, instead of 25 to 30.”