A sale is the best pitch to get a friend to grab a candy bar
Core finding
In a Verasight survey of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted Aug. 1-6, 2025, the pitch most would use to talk a friend into a candy bar at the drugstore is the bargain: 40% would go with the line that it's on sale, two-for-one.
Nothing else comes close: 18% say they wouldn't use any of these lines, while 16% would offer to split it, 11% would tell the friend they deserve it after all they've been through, and 10% would bring up eating these growing up as kids. Relatively few would try a health angle, whether that it's healthy enough (4%) or not even that bad for you (1%).
Topline distribution
A sale is the best pitch to get a friend to grab a candy bar.
Which of the following would you be most likely to say to convince a friend to get a candy bar at a CVS/drugstore?
n = 1,000 · Aug 1–6, 2025 · MoE ±3.2%
Methodology
Full methodology →| Mode | Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting |
|---|---|
| Population | United States adults |
| Field dates | Aug 1–6, 2025 |
| Base (unweighted) | 1,000 |
| Margin of error | ±3.2% |
| Module | B |
| Sponsor | Verasight |
| Weight variable | weight |
| Weighting targets | age, race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, metropolitan status |
Sources
- verasight-quirks-2025.tiiny.co
Which of the following would you be most likely to say to convince a friend to get a candy bar at a CVS/drugstore?
Cite this question
Verasight Quirks Omnibus Survey, fielded August 1-6, 2025, N=1,000 United States adults, +/- 3.2%.