I know what you mean, large groups do seem very popular nowadays: The kids we did get seemed to travel in packs of 10-20. There was this one kid, smaller than the rest, in a group of about 15 who muscled his way to the front and proceeded to take half of the bowl of candy, ha!

It was the first year that my sister didn't allow me to be overly generous with the candy, which normally led to emergency candy runs to the drug store, and ironically, we didn't get half the kids! You just can never tell anymore!