teddy bears and wine. mark griffin president of bnr store joining us now, thank you for being with us this morning. happy valentine s day. candy costs are up, cards are up, flowers, giftses, everything that has to do valentine s day, how are you navigating around this? we ve had to raise prices quite a bit again for the second year unfortunately, we ve seen a fairly large increase even this year in costs, sugar and corn syrup and lollipops, they are up between 40 and 50% and packaging is starting to stabilize and we are seeing fairly large inflation, we contracted for the whole year, it will not abate
An independent laboratory has found that the XPOP Energy lollipops made by Richester Foods were not responsible for the health scare at a Verulam school recently.
if you put this on your power tools rachel: can i have one of these before we go? you can have this one. rachel: i got the scoop. [laughter] todd: the all right, what s next. the pumpkins we want to highlight for your contest later is either lollipops or crazy hair in them. we re going to drill a hole straight in the top. take the tool, and you ve got to make sure the bit is perpendicular to the pumpkin and then push. perpendicular and push. rachel: it s so easy. it s kind of fun. okay. you get the hang of that, we ll do that later today, and you ll put in your lollipops or your pipe cleaners. i want to show you the next piece. this tool we use in carpentry. if you don t have a forester bit, you can use a paddle bit. normally you want to take this and go from the side, you could slip are. take your pumpkin, turn