{"id":260530,"date":"2022-10-19T21:56:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=260530"},"modified":"2022-10-19T22:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T22:10:38","slug":"trader-joe-s-whole-foods-charge-more-for-pumpkin-spice-food-items-new-studys-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/trader-joe-s-whole-foods-charge-more-for-pumpkin-spice-food-items-new-studys-says","title":{"rendered":"Trader Joe&#8217;s, Whole Foods charge more for pumpkin spice food items,new studys says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pumpkin spice, the unofficial flavor for the fall season, could be more expensive this year than it was in the past, a new study says. Magnify Money , a financial website, compared a total of 80 items, 40 pumpkin-spice flavored items and 40 regular items, from six grocery stores and coffee shops and found that, on average, pumpkin spice items cost 14.1% more than its counterparts. Researchers analyzed products from Target, Whole Foods, Trader Joe&#8217;s, to determine the average pumpkin spice tax . Items from Starbucks, Blanket Street and Dunkin Donuts were also included in the study, the website said. Known as the &#8220;pumpkin-spice tax,&#8221; this year&#8217;s seasonal items saw a 60.2% increase from where it was in 2020 when the tax was just 8.8% Surprisingly, the item with the most significant markup was Trader Joe&#8217;s Spiced Teeny Tiny Pretzels. Researchers discovered that the fall-themed food item cost 50 cents an ounce while Trader Joe&#8217;s Honey Wheat Pretzel sticks cost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pumpkin spice, the unofficial flavor for the fall season, could be more expensive this year than it was in the past, a new study says. Magnify Money, a financial website,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}