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Business Advice - Confectionery

dodge08 · 2016-08-30 03:39:14

Hello all, I am currently looking into the possibility of opening a sweet shop in a popular market town in Dorset, as a typical town that suffers from fairly quiet Winter traffic and an increased seasonal holiday traffic, I am hyper-aware of the risks. I don't want to go down the American candy route since I think this…

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bris Posts: 10,548 Forumite

5 September 2016 at 3:41PM

Another vote for forget it.

I had a take away and there is little to no profit in branded chocolate bars. For me it was just something the bought with the lunch.

The super markets can sell branded chocolate and sweets cheaper than I could buy them in the cash and carry.

20 years ago people were putting their redundancy into baby shops, they all failed, now it seems to be sweet shops, they all fail too.

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