Candy for Customers

Ron Eggers

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Here's a little tip you might find useful:

If you should decide to have a little dish of Hershey Kisses - maybe the special Valentines colors - on your front counter, you're going to end up with the little paper "pull-tabs" all over the shop.

Especially around your work tables. :D
 
Right now I have a dish of DOVE Chocolate hearts. Most of those wrappers are in my trash can, and the evidence will show up on MY...umm..can. I think from now on I'll only offer candy that I don't particularly like. Problem is, I haven't found one yet!!
 
I also have 2 candy dishes in my store.
One with chocolates for adults on the counter
and one for kids with Safty-Suckers on a little play-table and chairs. I always have crayons, coloring books/ matboard scraps and some toys on the table too.

I always ask the person/kid when the take one, if they want to give me the wrapper. Never a problem.
The kids tables let my customers know, I don't mind kids in my store. Hey, I have kids myself (age 8 & 6 1/2). One of my regular customers brings always her kid in, because he (the kid) wants to visit me. :D
 
But the real question I have for all of you is, are these candies you offer Atkins approved? :rolleyes:

-Mike.
 
We keep a bowl of Brach's peppermints on the counter for our client's - It sure helps after a lunch of shrimp scampi :D
 
Maybe we need to talk to Mike@GTP about a poll: What percentage of the candy you put out for customers is consumed by customers?

I apologize for this frivolous "tip" thread, but I had no idea that Hershey kisses could make such a mess - not the candy, but the little paper tags.

With the dry air and static, they show up in the most unfortunate places. :(
 
Those paper tags used to just say "Hershey" but lately I've been getting little messages on them.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. It's nice to be loved and I've always enjoyed a deep meaningful realtionship with chocolate but this sort of billet doux seem a trifle impersonal.

Kit
 
Have fun and enjoy your candy with out gaining weight. :D
This is the offical website from M&M's candy
www.mms.com ......Check out the fun and games link.
 
If it matters we have always had a complimentary dish/container of candy on the counter. But not Chocolates. It has been some sort of hard candy (with one exception i.e. Toffees).
The two largest problems we have are a.) do the parents agree to allow the kids to take one? b.) How to keep the kids whose parents say YES from filling their pockets.LOL
BUDDY

[ 02-12-2004, 10:23 PM: Message edited by: BUDDY ]
 
I keep an antique heavy glass wide-mouth jar on the shelf near my counter. It has a heavy lid so most kids can't get at the wrapped butterscotch hard candy inside. I had one clever mom who actually convinced her very skeptical daughter that this was not REAL candy, but a sculpture which only LOOKED LIKE candy. LOL!

I do find little twisted and rumpled celophane wrappers on the floor all the time, and this is from adults, not kids. Like our last party when I found all the OLIVE PITS on the floor! :eek:
 
I keep a bowl of the miniature Milky Way, 3 Muskateer and Snickers Bars in a bowl on the counter. I have been "Robbed" twice. It's a very well planned heist! I have double doors leading into the shop. My outer door "rings a bell" in the back room when it opens. Four of the neighborhood gremlins execute the caper. Two hold open the two doors and two run in and grab as much of the candy as the can handle. Cleaned the bowl out! So far, they have been very nice and left my cut glass bowl alone. Would have been much easier to grab the bowl and go! LOL

Cliff

P.S. Before I went on this low carb diet in January, I was buying a bag of these things every two weeks. Haven't gone through a half a bag in the last month! Guess the customers aren't as interested in candy as they were! :D
 
Forgive me for this little test.

I've noticed, with the new Grumble, edited posts no longer say, "Edited by . . . " though there is still a time limit on editing.

I want to find out if this is system-wide, so I'm going to edit something on a forum I don't moderate.

I think this an improvement, by the way.

Edit: Okay, here goes.
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No changes made to original, just Lance testing to see if it shows me as having edited... Hopefully it does

[ 03-02-2004, 01:42 AM: Message edited by: Lance E ]
 
Across from the check-out counter we have an antique candy dispensing machine. It runs on nickels, and we keep it stocked with M&Ms. It has a sign on it that says "All Proceeds go to the animal shelter". Around the various holidays we also have on the counter a nifty machine we picked up in Montana that dispenses ONE M&M at a time from a glass jar. We keep M&Ms that are colored appropriately to the next holiday in it. It attracts a lot of comment. PS: when we were in Las Vegas, I made a run to M&Ms World expressly to make up a batch of red, white, and blue M&Ms for the upcoming patriotic season (Memorial Day, Flag Day, 4th of July, Labor Day)
 
If you go to the M&M's website you can order from something like 30 custom colors, I think in 5 pound quantities. I want to order some in my store colors but its kinda pricey and I'm nervous about having 15 pounds of chocolate around...I'd have to have someone hide it for me and only hand it over when I need to refill the bowl! I had a gumball dispenser for the kiddies that we usually filled with M&M's or jelly beans, and I kept a bowl of pennies at the counter. We gave well-behaved children a penny for a handful of candy at the end of their visit. I like the idea of donating the $$, though. I have to repair the dispenser first. Someone put it back together wrong and it jammed up.
 
How 'bout a fainting
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gremlin??
Or one representing Kisses..
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