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| - This store is visually appealing so it draws in a lot of children. That's great news for a candy store.
They have a lot of cool products in here, but a lot are very adult-oriented. For example, at young child eye level there is a box of some kind of candy called "Camel Balls" that shows a camel's large testicles on the packaging. My daughter, who at 5 is a voracious reader, asked me very loudly what Camel Balls were. This is not a question I wanted to have to answer, so when her attention was diverted elsewhere, I sighed... audibly... out of relief. There were even worse examples, but some are not even appropriate to discuss in a review!
Here's the gross part. There is no one monitoring the candy bins. This is a definite problem. I have, on multiple occasions, seen children AND teenagers sticking their hands directly into the bins and eating candy from them. On my last visit, I witnessed the employee behind the register just watch, laughing, as a toddler stuck his saliva-soaked hands into bin after bin grabbing candy and shoving it into his mouth while his mother barely attempted to correct his behavior. That is just filthy and unacceptable.
Luckily for me, my daughter only wanted Astronaut ice cream (the second time in as many weeks since she got some at the AZ Science Center), which was in a sealed package.
I am not a fan of buffets because of people's poor hand washing habits. This is way more disgusting. I have never seen anyone's 2 year old put wet hands into a salad bar repeatedly (though it probably does happen, I don't want to see it).
IT'SUGAR really needs to put candy bins at a higher level and/or have one employee that specifically monitors the bins at ALL times.
Or, maybe change the layout altogether and have IT'SUGAR be like the old time candy stores where the people behind the counter are the only ones with access to open bins.
How does this place get past food handling restrictions?! Are there none for candy stores?
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