The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups craze is on a roll this year. Not long ago, the famous chocolate announced that it would be debuting Reese’s Thins, a slimmed-down version of the original Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. But just in time for Halloween, Reese’s debuted a candy exchange machine where people swap out all the candy they hate for a peanut buttery chocolate cup.
“Reese’s Halloween Candy Converter Machine” was first released to the public on Oct. 28, during a Halloween parade in Tarrytown, New York. The machine allows people to trade in the candy they don’t want for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
A recent survey commissioned by Reese’s found that 90 percent of Americans say that they have traded, or wish they could have traded, their unwanted candy on Halloween.
“As the #1 Halloween candy (with over half of candy buyers purchasing Reese’s), Reese’s has come up with a solution — give us your unwanted candy, and we’ll give you what you actually want — Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups,” Anna Lingeris, a spokeswoman for Reese’s distributor Hershey, told CNN.
Unfortunately, New York is the only location where Reese’s has released the machine. Fans were, of course, a little upset and inquired about when the machine would hit their town.
“This has been quite the day and we love the feedback from our fans,” Lingeris said. “Maybe we will bring the Reese’s Candy Exchange to other cities; stay tuned for Halloween 2019.”
By: Maytinee Kramer
