new candy store

KEEP YOUR CUSTOMERS HAPPY

2008-01-15T22:03:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY.WHAT YOU KNOWING?...You have a candy store and you have an ad in the paper which states buy one pound of gummies and receive one pound of gummies free with this coupon. A customer comes in with the coupon. For some reason you are all out of gummies... Please let them keep the coupon and give them the same deal on anything else in the store. Remember that the customer is always right is the first rule of business. The second rule of business is---see the first rule.....see you in the funnies...open day and night...where is my hat? thanks Rox...and thank you for your time

SURVEY SAYS

2008-01-14T16:57:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYONE......Do you remember a very funny man who hosted the show Family Feud from around 1988 to 1994? He is not with us any more---rest in peace Ray Combs. The reason I bring up his name is that I would like everyone out there to picture themselves on a deserted island. You can only bring with you ONE candy product. I know what I would pick. How about you? Please e-mail your choice to SANDYCANDYDAD@YAHOO.COM THIS IS NOT A CONTEST SO DO NOT EXPECT ANY PRIZES. THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE(ALWAYS LIKED THAT PHRASE) see you in the funnies....open day and night

want to save some real bucks ?

2008-01-13T08:47:00.000-08:00

Did you write down the name of the person you talked to? Hello everybody...If you ship by United Parcel Service read on. If not go play with your dog. For over a year we have been saving 3 per cent on the first 20,000 worth of UPS bills per year and one per cent on anything over 20,000. Not to mention that we do not have to worry about a late fee from UPS and we actually have more time to pay the bill than we did before. Interested? If you are e mail me at SANDYCANDYDAD@YAHOO.COM AND I will SEND YOU THE DETAILS.. SEE YOU IN the FUNNY PAPERS. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT

HOW TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS YOUR FRIEND

2008-01-12T18:29:00.000-08:00

LITTLE CAESAR.......Would you like to know if someone is a real friend, part time friend or no friend at all. Ask this friend just one question--Can you do me a favor? If you hear sure or name it or something positive then you have a friend. Hold on to this friend. Many people who you think are your friend turn out to be otherwise. that is too bad. With friends like this, who needs an enemy? If you hear--What is it? you have a conditional friend who could not ever be counted on to come to your help. I speak from experience... see you in the funny papers..open day and night

PLEASE BE NICE TO MY WIFE IF SHE EVER COMES IN YOUR PLACE

2008-01-12T14:45:00.000-08:00

what kind of wood is that? How will you know if the customer standing in front of you is my wife, Rebecca--who by the way makes the world"s best caramel marshmallows.......The first clue is she will ask for a diet Coke no ice... The next clue is she will want to buy two peanut clusters even though her peanut clusters are the best I have ever tasted-she will still want to buy two of yours. Rebecca will share her candy with me only when she is starting out to eat it. Want a bite--she will say. When she reaches what we call the point of no return it is all hers. Do not even think about another tiny bite. She always needs to have the last bite. There may be a story in there somewhere about the last bite but I am at a loss of words on this.....see you in the funny papers...this is me you are talking to...open day and night thanks for your time

WHEN CAN I EXPECT AN ANSWER ?

2008-01-12T14:27:00.000-08:00

SAM WE HAVE A CUSTOMER....Talked to GEORGE THE OTHER DAY-----for the first time in over twenty years.........Where does the time go? this is the same George as in BUY PECANS GEORGE. He is a good guy...George reminded me of some business advice I had given to him......He said I had told him that when he was on the phone with a credit card or other problem---to say "when can I expect an answer".....You know I do not know if that was an original thought coming from me or if I lifted it from someone..all I can tell you is that I like it.. I wish I had remembered to use it over the years. Thank you George

The wife wants to go to bed

2008-01-12T00:00:00.000-08:00

hello everybody.. Okay it is midnight. I have been on this for about 4 hours. enough is enough. I am going to watch a little t.v. in the other room. For some reason I like blind date and everyone loves Raymond.....thanks for your time---it was much more than mine.......see you in the funny papers.. open day and night

What to charge for your candy

2008-01-11T23:33:00.000-08:00

hello everybody. Okay you are opening your candy store.. GOOD LUCK... I might drop in someday.. That reminds me.. be nice to people like your post man or lady. Every day I ask them if they would like a soft drink or bottled water. The same with your U.P.S. man. These people bust their chops and it is just a nice thing to do..Oh one other NICE thing to do....If you are ever on the 10 freeway east towards Palm Springs and you see a family in a U-Haul with every possession they have in the world on that van...these people crapped out in California and are on the way to another state. Be nice to them. Please do not honk your horn at them as they are climbing the hill at 45 miles per hour. They probably just lost their house and are heading to a state where the cost of living is not so high. Where was I? OH you are opening up a store and need to price all the bulk items in your store. You can EITHER price them all at so much a pound across the board or you can price them on an individual basis. Please remember this....It is not enough to keystone in todays world(for some reason I have never liked that word..I do not know why) So if you want to go out of business when your lease is up double what you paid and sell it for that. What do I suggest? First of all you are leaving money on the table if you price something at 6.19 per pound. Put it at 6.99 per pound...the only thing the customer will remember is the 6....that IS extra money in your pocket. I would try for at least triple the cost and some items are blind items on which you can go four to five times......have fun buy pecans GEORGE(George are you reading my blogs?) see you in the funny papers open day and night

add on

2008-01-11T23:11:00.000-08:00

hello everybody...I forgot. Sy was the only person I have ever met who purchased two lifetime memberships from the same dance studio.... He said that it was worth it. Well he was worth it. I miss him.. open day and night

#1 in a series on candy distributors

2008-01-11T22:54:00.000-08:00

hello everybody. This will be our first article on candy distributors I have known......Let us go back to 1977. Jelly Belly was gaining some attention....Who should enter my world but a candy distributor by the name of Sy...He went under the name of Ragtime distribution. Once you meet him you could never forget him. For starters he delivered candy in a white van and always had his dog with him to make the deliveries...okay what else? His first sexual experience was at the age of fifty---kinda late but to each his own.....I made him a Jelly Belly distributor. It was a few weeks before a candy trade show that was to take place in northern California--probably San Francisco. I knew that the company that was making the Jelly Bellies for me would be displaying their other products at this show... I told Sy to please keep his big mouth shut when he went to their table...This was much too hard on him. In front of maybe 4 or 5 customers he states that he is buying Jelly Bellies from me at such and such price... Okay I hear about this....A few days later this nice man who could not keep his mouth shut comes to my warehouse. I asked him if he by chance had talked to any one at the show about the Jelly Bellies... He knew what I was talking about. I told him for the next six months his big mouth would cost him another ten cents per lb. Like a little kid with their hands caught in the cookie jar he said okay. I only charged him that extra dime that time. How could you stay mad at the biggest hearted candy distributor I have ever known? Sy---rest in peace buy pecans George...see you in the funny papers...open day and night

the lazy man"s way to blog... Thank you Roxy

2008-01-11T22:17:00.000-08:00

Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:04:16 -0800
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Hi Dad,

You might want to do a writing on your blog on punch cards.

You might say that they don't really cost anything but some card stock and a clever hole punch (make it a hole punch that is hard to get so people can't do it at home).

You might add that of course not everyone will keep the card and fill the card but for the people that do, it might be another reason for them to come in and spend money.

Speaking of reasons to come in, you might also put a comment about a birthday club. Like maybe get a free lb on your b-day.

cardboard trick

2008-01-11T21:59:00.000-08:00

hello everybody.. Just a little trick I picked up a long time ago. IT DOES NOT WORK EVERY TIME BUT IT WORKS OFTEN ENOUGH TO TRY IT.. You have a ten pound box of jordan almonds in front of you. Take a look at the bottom of the cardboard box....You will be able to find the city and state and company that makes the cardboard. This narrows down your search. Candy companies will buy their cardboard locally. You do not want to pay freight on cardboard bought from another state. Call the cardboard company and and tell them you want to buy a lot of candy from the company in their state that they are selling cardboard to...It is their best interest to tell you. If this does not work try Google. This has worked for me more times than I can remember. If it works for you please tell me about it. Thanks.........see you in the funny papers.....open day and night

caramel marshmallows

2008-01-11T21:01:00.000-08:00

hello everybody... My wife is making me some hot chocolate--while I type. She just brought it in. I just heard--It"s hot. There is one of her soon to be world famous caramel marshmallows on the top of the hot chocolate. Just ate it. There should be a sin tax placed on this. It is that good. No lie.......way to go Rebecca...see you in the funny papers.........open day and night...

Your Storage Area

2008-01-11T20:47:00.000-08:00

hello everybody....Two things occur to me about your storage area. First of all I am getting a visual picture of a four pound box of nut clusters in a box that you can not see into. This is not good...not good....If there were to be any insect infestation in this box you would never know about it until it is too late. After it spreads you might as well close up the store- take your marbles and go home. There is a simple solution to this. Put your excess candy in plastic such as Tupperware where you can see if there are any bug problems. The second thing that comes to my mind is your storage area is usually on the way to the bathroom. A person who wants to open a candy store in your area comes in and asks if he can use your bathroom. On the way there and back one can find out the whole ball of wax about your store. How much inventory, brand names, the whole shot...the whole nine yards.. This is not a fantasy...I know someone who did this........see you in the funny papers...open day and night

more on the health department

2008-01-11T20:45:00.000-08:00

me again.. One more thing--if they write you up for a violation---fix it within a few days. They will be back....over and out.......open day and night

THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT

2008-01-11T20:24:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY. Our candy factory is in California--Covina to be exact..Like all candy factories the health department pays us visits. They have a system of letter grades for most places. A, B, and C. Give me an "A". Go into some sections and the highest rated place will be a B.. When the health inspector comes do not play Wheel of Fortune with him..Do not try to buy a vowel..Have your plant manager show him the place..It may sound crazy but you should welcome this visit. The inspector is there to HELP you keep the place up to code. He is not your mortal enemy. At the end of the visit I always thank them for coming--and I mean it. My father in law had a candy store at one time in San Marino. He did two things wrong there. He sold my world"s largest jawbreaker--which could not be replaced-for ten dollars.. He also kicked out the health inspector---told him to get out plain and simple. You do not tell the health inspector to get out. Come to think of it--he was a spunky little guy with a handlebar mustache with the most piercing blue eyes known to mankind--that is my father-in law and not the health inspector. So do not fear the health department. Also never open a retail candy store without going to the health department first. They will close you down if you have no permit...I have seen this many times---no lie.......See you in the funny papers.....buy pecans George...Open day and night

google archives

2008-01-11T20:09:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY... In my younger years I was a student at U.C.L.A.---fight, fight, fight. All in all a good school. I had a professor of math by the name of DR. Redheffer. After receiving back my first exam I went up to him and asked for partial credit on one of the questions. He told me something that is hard to forget---Son you are in the big leagues now-there is no partial credit given in my class. The reason I bring this up is that I went to Google to find how to spell his name...Google came back empty. So I tried Google archive search.....You go to Google, click on news on the top, on the next screen you see archive news search. I put what I thought was the right spelling in and U.C.L.A. (the exact thing I put in Google) and his name came up. I was also looking for Winters Chocolate the other day..same thing...nothing on Google but lots of stuff on Google archives......Google why are you not talking more about this great service of yours? See you in the funny papers. Open day and night

THE BIRTH OF AN IDEA

2008-01-11T03:11:00.000-08:00

good morning everybody. and I do mean good morning. It is now a little past 3 in the morning. I am pecking away on my keyboard by just enough light to see and not too much to wake my wife up. Funny thing...when I signed on a few minutes ago there was an ad on the site for people who have sleep problems. Does the big G place ads with the time of day in mind? Nothing would surprise me about them. They were voted as the best place to work for in the USA. WHAT A GREAT COMPANY...Why am I up? Just had an idea that could be huge....My wife, REBECCA, has spent the last three years working on a recipe for a caramel coated marshmallow. She has perfected it to the point that everyone loves them. I would stake my reputation of forty years in the candy business on these. We have been looking for a hook for these. I think we have it but I will not know until I can buy some hot chocolate...They are GREAT just by themselves but if we can sell them to places where they can serve these in hot chocolate I think we will have a big hit. Will keep you posted.. Buy pecans George....see you in the funny papers. open day and night....nite nite

One mistake and you are out of there

2008-01-10T21:58:00.000-08:00

hello everybody....So you are trying to drum up business. A very nice man in my hometown did the same a few years back. He had a clothing store. A very nice one too. He i9s not in business now. What went wrong? Out of the goodness of his heart he spread the work that if you have so many A's on your report card for high school you could get free goods. What a nice man. It put him out of business. T%he students altered cards to the extent that it cost him his store. The newspaper did an article about him. I calleed him on a saturday and told him how sorry I was. I asked him if he were open on sunday. He said no but he would meet me at the store the next morning. I was there and bought lots of goods from him. He went out of business. Strange thing took place 6 years later. I was doing a Sandy Candy event in Upland and parked on a side street where there were two stores. After my event I looked inside the store. Do not remembe3r what they were selling but this nice man and his wife were inside this store. Here is the weird part...Ten seconds before I walked in he told me he was talking about me with the people who were in the store. He said that I must be an angel....Strange but true..........So if you have a candy store never do a promotion that could be your death notice........see you in the funny papers....open day and night

TAKE OUT THE PAPERS AND THE TRASH

2008-01-10T20:43:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY...Okay you have a business. When you leave at night I assume that you check the front door to make sure it is locked. I person I know even checks it four or five times. I feel sorry for him. When you leave your building you are secure in knowing that your alarm service is protecting your building. How many have been called at 3 in the morning with a false alarm? another story, another time. Where was I? Oh yes you are driving home secure..very secure..very very secure. You left something behind? No not your bank deposit or chocolate for your wife. You left behind your trash bin. Now I only know one person who leaves his trash bin inside. Most people have their trash bin on the outside. What is the big deal you say...it is only trash. Okay only trash. What do you throw out in the trash almost every day? Envelopes. So? Envelopes with a return address on them.So? Envelopes with a return address of YOUR CUSTOMERS. Get the picture. Some one comes by at three in the morning(right before trash day) with 3 or 4 empty boxes...Just in case anyone says--Hey what you doing there? Oh I need some empty boxes so I can move. This someone puts as many envelopes as he can into the boxes. Your competitor NOW KNOWS WHO YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE. tHIS IS MUCH BETTER THAN FOLLOWING YOUR DELIVERY TRUCKS AROUND TOWN. LISTEN TO ME---THIS ARTICLE IS NOT FICTION.........SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS.. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT(EVER WONDER WHAT THIS SAYING MEANS)?

I am a thief

2008-01-10T20:21:00.000-08:00

hello everybody... I have always tried to be honest. I taught my kids---Roxanne and Bert that HONESTYis the best policy. I remember when I created the Jelly Belly beans I called the company and told them to start charging me ten cents a pound more....Not many people have ever done that.....but tonight I was a thief. Let me set the stage. My wife and myself went out to eat at a local eating establishment(can not tell you the name for reasons you will see). I never like to stand in lines so my wife says what do you want and she takes care of the ordering. While she is standing in a line of 5 or so people I spy the pay phone. By the pay phone are about 6 different phone books. So I pick up the Los Angeles business to business yellow pages. I find a seat while the wife is still standing in line. What do I open up to? Candy factories of course......Okay the wife comes to the table, makes her salad from a salad bar. She comes back to the table and asks me why I have not made my salad yet.. I tell her it is because she always makes her salad better than I do..so I take her salad.. Not the first time and will not be the last. On the out I took the yellow page book with me. Do I feel guilty? a little. My only defense is there were still 5 books left and no one would need a Los Angeles business to business yellow page book at this restaurant. Besides the food stunk........ see you in the funny papers....open day and night

TRUE STORY

2008-01-10T20:15:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY....Just got home. I was telling Rebecca, my young bride, that there was an article in the paper this morning that states that short term memory loss takes place as you age. She asked me where the article was and I said I did not remember....True story open day and night

sweets for my SWEET, Sugar for my HEARTACHE

2008-01-10T18:00:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY. While I go to dinner with my wife, I need your help. I want to do a column on Valentines Day and I could use some real life stories from the audience involving candy for Valentines day. I do not want to make up phony stories. So I am leaving now. Will be back in a few hours. Have a good meal--you say. I will- I say. Counting on you out there. thank you......

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2008-01-10T12:34:00.000-08:00

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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:27:35 -0800 (PST)
From: "CANDYMAN KLEIN" View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
Subject: this is your dad
To: "ROXY"
unday, January 6, 2008
HOW YOUR SCALE CAN PAY YOUR RENT
HELLO EVERYBODY...OKAY HERE IS THE DEAL......you have a digital scale--if you do not get one-----a customer comes into your store and says---give me 5.00 worth of bridge mix(one of my favorites). notice they very seldom say please....that is just the way it is. OKAY HERE IS WHAT YOU DO.....MAKE SURE THERE IS ABOUT 6.00 WORTH WHEN YOU ARE POURING IT IN THE BAG...NOW HERE IS THE KEY---SAY OOPS THERE IS A LITTLE MORE IN THERE---IS THAT ALL RIGHT.......YOU HAVE TO SAY IS THAT ALL RIGHT OR IT WILL NOT WORK........90 PER CENT WILL SAY JUST LEAVE IT ALONE....NO ONE WANTS CANDY TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM........now you can not do this on every item they buy---but you can do it on at least one item.....OKAY SO INSTEAD OF 5.00 YOU HAVE A 6.00 SALE....6.00 IS 20 PER CENT MORE 5.00 DO THIS ENOUGH TIMES A MONTH AND THE PROFIT ON THE ADDITIONAL AMOUNT WILL PAY FOR YOUR RENT... IS THIS SNEAKY OR JUST SURVIVAL? I VOTE ON SURVIVAL...YOU are not putting your thumb on the scale......that is all....see you in the funny papers.... OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
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CHECK IT OUT

2008-01-09T23:54:00.000-08:00

www.greateatingtips.blogspot.com

VERY EXCITING NEWS

2008-01-09T23:35:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY.......My daughter,ROXANNE, has started a new food blog.Today is the first day. How exciting!!!!!!! The site is www.greateatingtips.blogspot.com Roxanne is a nationally known candy inventor(she created the SANDY CANDY). She has been interviewed in over fifty magazine and newspaper articles. WAY TO GO ROX...

KNOW YOUR INDUSTRY

2008-01-09T22:02:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY.. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. WE HAVE A SON BERT WHO IS A GREAT ANIMATOR...When he was younger i gave him some advice. I told him that no matter what he did in life learn as much as you can about your industry. He listened to me and you should too. Subscribe to free candy industry magazines, get free annual reports of publicly traded candy companies, visit candy factories, go to candy making school, read every cand blog you can. Immerse yourself in the industry that is putting bread on your table. Do you know what one ingredient separates real chocolate from compound? Do you know what compound is? You owe it to yourself and your family to learn EVERYTHING there is to know about the candy industry. If you need help I would be happy to help... enough said......See you in the funny papers

NEVER REVEAL YOUR SOURCES

2008-01-09T21:35:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY.. WELCOME....OPEN DAY AND NIGHT....You have a candy store...You receive an order for ten lbs of jordan almonds(i will bet it is for a wedding) from a nice lady who has two daughters. You just happen to have a ten lb box of these in the back and all you need do is go get the box and you will make a profit of 30.00....do not give the lady the product in the original box. It will either say the name of the manufacture(as you know most candy manufactures are in direct competition with you as they have sites on the internet that have very low minimum orders..and great prices too...Or the box will have the name of a distributor on there and they would not hesitate to sell this lady when her next daughter is getting married. Pack the order in 2 five lb bags with a twist tie..in fact double bag each bag so there is no chance of the bag splitting....Protect your sources. See you in the funny papers...

MORE IS BETTER

2008-01-09T21:23:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY...HOW YA DOING? Have you ever been in a grocery store and noticed that there was only one of the item you wanted to buy. Did this make you uncomfortable? I know that I would question its freshness if I only saw one of a kind. Why is this? I do not know... the point is that in a candy store you will never sell the last box, the last 1.00 worth of bridge mix(which I love by the way--I would probably buy the last 1.00 worth of this). There is an old saying---you can not sell from an empty cart...You do not get much traffic in your storage area. Put out as much as you can out front. Remember to empty your jars , place the new candy in first and then put the older candy on top.

YOU CAN TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS

2008-01-09T21:09:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY....HOW YA DOING? THREE SCORE AND ONE YEAR AGO(that sounds much younger than 61) I was born into this world. About 30 months ago my daughter Roxanne(great daughter..great name) asked me why I never used a computer. I did not even know how to turn it on. When she told me that five year old kids can use it I decided that I would give it a try. One of the best decisions of my life....In the short time I have been on the computer(less than five per cent of my life) I have discovered a brand new world out there... THANK YOU ROXANNE LOVE YOUR DAD

BE CREATIVE

2008-01-09T11:01:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY...2 QUICK IDEAS.... Probably the nicest candy turtle(by the way turtle is a registered trademark owned by Nestle for years-the product was recently sold to another company-Nestle never protected the trademark and thousans of candy stores call their products turtles) is one which is made with colored jordan almonds sticking out of the caramel...We tried this 8 years ago....They came out GREAT... the only problem is that the jordan almonds crack when they are sent out by ups.....The second idea is when you buy Christmas jordan almonds and have some left over after Christmas---use the red and white for Valentine day and the green for ST PATRICK"S DAY. NEED TO GET TO WORK... THIS BLOGGING IS VERY ADDICTIVE......SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS....OPEN DAY AND NIGHT

THE WOW FACTOR

2008-01-08T22:12:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY...HOW YA DOING? A long time ago we had retail candy shops. Want to do something exciting? We had the largest lollypop in the world--it w4eighed 2000 lbs. We had the largest jaw breaker in the world(my father in law sold it for 10.00) ouch......We had the largest candy peppermint stick in the world--it weighed 280 lbs. We had the largest candy turtle in the world. I think you get the picture. Not a bad idea if your store is in a busy spot. See you in the funny papers. Open day and night...goodnight ...

INTERESTING CANDY STORE IDEA

2008-01-08T21:46:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY.. HOW YA DOING? Try this one on for size. You open a candy store that makes candy with ingredients the customer picks out. Okay here is how it would works. It is like a Chinese eating establishment--column a , column b , and column c. What is column a? They pick from white, mile, dark, or sugar free chocolate. What is column b? They pick from almonds, peanuts, cashews, pecans, etc. What is column c? I don"t know yet--maybe raisins, coconut , etc. The customer tells you what they want--you make it right then. Talk about fresh candy. They pay you, go shopping and come back 30 minutes later to pick up their fresh candy. This would work great in a mall. The idea is yours...Run with it...See you in the funny papers...Open day and night. oh by the way you can either make it into clusters or bark form.....

WANT TO TRY SOMETHING NEW?

2008-01-08T21:38:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY..HOW YA DOING? Are you looking for something that could bring some life into your world? call my daughter, ROXY, who has just come up with a great idea. What is it? It is an idea that will have people talking about your store for a long time. The press will be there too. The idea involves setting a world record for the biggest candy necklace. Roxy can supply you with everything you need to pull this off...E mail me if you do not have her phone number. Great idea if I say so myself. See you in the funny papers. Open day and night...

Don"t say I did not tell you

2008-01-08T21:28:00.001-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY..HOW YA DOING? If you are opening a new candy store please remember one thing if you don"t remember anything else. What could be so important? Never and I mean never make any candy that contains raw walnuts. Why you say? Just do it and you could cause such an infestation of bugs that you will wish you were in another business. Once these bugs enter into your friendly store it is almost impossible to get rid of them. Have you ever been in a health food store and seen flying bugs around the bulk bins? Not sure if these turn into worms or if the worms turn into these flying things. In fact just make sure all you nuts are roasted. This helps but I still would ban any walnuts from the store. This is from my own experience. I am not just whistling dixie. See you in the funny papers. Open day and night

everyone could use a giant thermometer

2008-01-08T21:11:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY...So you have a candy store and you need to have more business.What to do? Try placing a giant thermometer on the outside of your building. Post a sign that says when the temperature on this thermometer is 95 or above we will be having a 50 per cent off sale on all chocolates in the store. What does this do? First of all it gets people to talk about your store. It will get more people to look in your front window.. Second of all you would not be selling much chocolate in 95 or 100 degree weather. See you in the funny papers. Open day and night

BATHROOMS ARE FOR CUSTOMERS ONLY

2008-01-08T21:03:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY......HOW YA DOING? Just took my fantastic boxer,Max, for a walk in the retail part of our city. Everything was closed up tighter than a drum. We passed by one place which had a small sign in the front window which said that the bathroom was for customers only. What kind of first impression does this make when you enter the store? I for one would never shop at this place. See you in the funny papers. Open day and night

NOT A CRAZY IDEA

2008-01-07T22:06:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY...So you want to open a new candy store. What would I do if I were twenty years younger? I would think outside the box. I would locate my new candy store inside an already existing establishment. Such as? An Indian casino...They are all over the place, have lots of compulsive eaters in them, and your store will never face being held up by a robber. Many casinos have eating places inside which they do not run. Any other ideas? Baseball and football stadiums, big produce stores. Look for lots of people who have money in their pockets. See you in the funny papers and open day and night

THANK YOU GOOGLE

2008-01-07T19:27:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY.....HOW YA DOING? READY FOR SOME GOOD STUFF? GO TO GOOGLE. TYPE IN GOOGLE ALERT. CLICK ON I'M FEELING LUCKY(CAN'T THEY PICK A BETTER NAME)..OKAY NOW ENTER "NEW CANDY STORE" WITH QUOTES ON BOTH ENDS.....CLICK ON COMPREHENSIVE...CLICK AS-IT-HAPPENS...PUT IN YOUR E MAIL ADDRESS.....NOW GO TO YOUR E MAIL AND VERIFY THAT YOU WANTED TO CREATE THIS SEARCH ALERT........NO CHARGE FOR THIS SERVICE BY GOOGLE.........DO THE SAME FOR NEW CANDY ITEMS, CANDY, CHOCOLATE, JELLY BEANS, AND SO FORTH.......IF YOUR KIDS ARE DOING A TERM PAPER ON HURRICANES PUT THAT IN........IF YOU PUT IN "NEW CANDY STORE" YOU WILL RECEIVE AN ALERT THAT THERE IS A NEW BLOG FROM ME..YES I KNOW...SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS AND OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.

WHY DO THEY MAKE IT SO HARD?

2008-01-07T16:49:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY......I AM SURE THAT YOU HAVE COME ACROSS WHEN IT SAYS----TYPE THE CHARACTERS YOU SEE IN THE PICTURE BELOW....WHY DOES THE FIRST ONE HAVE TO BE SO HARD TO SEE? INSTEAD OF GUESSING I JUST CLICK SO I CAN GET ANOTHER ONE THE SECOND IS EASIER TO SEE AND THE THIRD IS EVEN EASIER.......I WONDER HOW MANY CHANCES YOU WILL GET BEFORE THE COMPUTER BLOWS UP.......ANY WAY THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CANDY---BUT I PROMISE MY NEXT ENTRY WILL MAKE UP FOR IT....SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS.. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT...OH BY THE WAY I HAVE TWO MORE BLOGS------WWW.CANDYINVENTOR.BLOGSPOT.COM AND WWW.THEWORLDOFJELLYBEANS.BLOGSPOT.COM WONDER WHY THE COMPUTER DID NOT UNDERLINE THESE...MAYBE IT WILL WHEN I SEND IT.......ADIOS

LOST IN SPACE

2008-01-07T16:43:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY.......HOW YA DOING? AT EXACTLY 6:16 PM ON JANUARY 6TH OF THIS YEAR I WROTE AN ENTRY TITLED HOW YOUR SCALE CAN PAY YOUR RENT....THE REASON I AM BRINGING THIS UP IS I CAN NOT FIND THIS ON MY BLOG......IF YOU CARE TO READ IT PUT SCALE IN THE SEARCH ON THE TOP-AND IT WILL COME UP...I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE IT WENT......IT IS ONE OF MY BETTER ONES.. AT LEAST A 7 ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 10...SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS OPEN DAY AND NIGHT

WE DO NOT CARRY THAT

2008-01-06T22:29:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY........I WISH I HAD A DOLLAR FOR EVERY TIME I HAVE BEEN IN A CANDY STORE AND HEARD ANOTHER CUSTOMER BEING TOLD WE DO NOT CARRY THAT ITEM...WHAT GIVES HERE? WOULD IT BE A CRIME TO HAVE A WANT LIST FOR ITEMS THAT YOU DO NOT STOCK? GET A NOTEBOOK AND START A WANT LIST--OR DO IT ON YOUR COMPUTER.....GET THE NAME OF THE CANDY,THE NAME OF THE CUSTOMER WHO WANTS THIS CANDY, THE DATE THE CUSTOMER WAS IN AND THE PHONE NUMBER OF THE CUSTOMER(IF YOU CAN CELL NUMBER AS WELL). OR GET THE E-MAIL ADDRESS OF YOUR CUSTOMER. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO FIND THE CANDY ITEM E MAIL ME AT SANDYCANDYDAD@YAHOO.COM ......I WILL FIND THE ITEM FOR YOU IF IT IS STILL MADE....THIS IS HOW YOU BUILD UP GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR CUSTOMERS WITHOUT MUCH EFFORT......THE CHANCES ARE GOOD THAT IF THEY WANT AN ITEM SOMEONE ELSE ALSO WILL....THAT IS ALL FOR NOW....REMEMBER TO BRUSH YOUR TOOTH AFTER EATING CANDY OR YOU WILL END UP WITH NO TEETH......SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS...OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.....P.S.....DOES ANY TELEVISION COMMERCIAL WHICH HAS A RINGING TELEPHONE BOTHER YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE WONDERING IF IT IS YOUR OWN PHONE?

HELLO--HOW YA DOING?

2008-01-06T20:18:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY....I WENT TO A MARKET THE OTHER DAY. THERE WERE THREE PEOPLE AHEAD OF ME IN LINE...THE CHECKOUT LADY SAID TO EACH OF THE 3 HELLO-HOW YA DOING? GUESS WHAT SHE SAID TO ME WHEN IT WAS MY TURN? YUP YOU ARE RIGHT....SO WHY AM I TELLING YOU THIS? IF SOMEONE COMES INTO YOUR CANDY STORE AND THERE ARE OTHER CUSTOMERS ALREADY THERE--DO NOT GREET THE NEW ARRIVAL WITH THE SAME GREETING YOU USED ON THE OTHERS...HOW ABOUT---GOOD MORNING THANK YOU FOR COMING OR WELCOME TO OUR STORE MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME OR LOOK AROUND IF YOU NEED ANY HELP PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK.....PLEASE DO NOT SAY CAN I HELP YOU--BECAUSE I WOULD BET THE FARM THAT THEY WILL SAY--NO THANKS I AM JUST LOOKING........ALL FOR NOW....SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS.....OPEN DAY AND NIGHT

OUT WITH THE OLD IN WITH THE NEW

2008-01-06T19:52:00.000-08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY........OKAY YOU ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE SALES IN YOUR STORE....BLAME IT ON THE WEATHER---IT IS TOO HOT FOR PEOPLE TO EAT CANDY.........BLAME IT ON TAXES----PEOPLE HAVE NO MONEY LEFT TO BUY CANDY----BLAME IT ON THE CASINO THAT JUST OPENED IN TOWN---EVERYONE LOST THEIR MONEY.......OKAY WHEN YOU HAVE RUN OUT OF EXCUSES LET ME KNOW......OKAY READY TO LISTEN YOU NEED TO PROMOTE YOUR STORE...I DO NOT MEAN BY SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY---WHICH YOU PROBABLY DO NOT HAVE....THAT IS OKAY YOU WILL SOON......WHAT TO DO? FIRST STEP...GO TO GOOGLE....I LOVE THEM------TYPE IN YOUR CITY(I JUST PUT IN OMAHA) NEXT TO THE CITY PUT IN STREET FAIR.. TO BE CONTINUED....SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS.......OPEN DAY AND NIGHT