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Easter Sunday expected to break confectionery records this year

57% of shoppers decide what Easter candies to buy while they're shopping.

By Liz Parker Kuhn
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photo credit: Pexels / George Dolgikh

March 26, 2024

According to the National Retail Federation, Easter spending is expected to reach a record $22.4 billion this year, the second highest in history. What’s in consumers’ Easter baskets?

84.51°, the retail data science, insights, and media company helping Kroger and its partners create customer-centric shopper journeys, found in its March Consumer Digest that 57% of Easter basket item purchases are impulse, with the shopper deciding what to buy while shopping. Choosing items isn’t the only thing shoppers are procrastinating on either. Survey results show that consumers wait until the last minute to buy Easter Candy. For the past three years, candy sales spiked by three times the two weeks before Easter, and by four times the week before Easter Sunday.

Here's what will make it into Easter baskets this year:

  • 57% of shoppers are putting chocolate in their baskets
  • Fruit flavored and sugar candies came in second, at 47%
  • Easter-themed and limited edition candy came in third, at 36%
  • Peeps, at 29%
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Liz Parker Kuhn is the senior editor of Candy Industry and Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery, and has worked at BNP Media since 2012. She has written for CBS Detroit as well as for her own blogs. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. Liz can be contacted at (248) 839-7156 or at parkerkuhne@bnpmedia.com.

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