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If Willy Wonka had a candy sale, it would look like this

Posted on February 6th, 2009 – 1:27 PM
By John Ewoldt

Candy and chocolate lovers, your prayers have been answered. Route 29 (5197 Winnetka Av. N., New Hope) is having a warehouse sale Feb. 7, a week before Valentine’s Day. Guittard chocolate, similar to Godiva, that retails for as much as $12 per pound will be $1 per pound at the sale. Other treats: turtles, peppermint, almond and green mint barks, licorice, taffy, pretzel rods and others. Naturally, you may be wondering if there’s anything, er, wrong with it. J.J. Weiland of Route 29 assured me it’s simply overstock and it’s fresh.

The assortment includes lots of gift packages including Valentine themes. For example, a Valentine gift box of Yum Dilly sold at Wal-Mart for $5 will be $1 at the sale. Besides Wal-Mart, the local company also makes candy for Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Williams Sonoma and Caribou. The company also owns Maud Borup, which no longer has any retail outlets in the Twin Cities. 

Gift boxes, ribbon, foil, baskets and tins will also be discounted.

 Caramels are a company specialty. Free samples will be available for tasting during the sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7 only. This is the company’s first ever warehouse sale in the Twin Cities area. Let me know if you liked it. Â

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3 Responses to "If Willy Wonka had a candy sale, it would look like this"

Janet Welna says:

February 8th, 2009 at 8:18 pm

I liked it! I consider you a partner in my bargain hunting, and this was a tip I was excited to take. I found friendly people working the sale along with wonderful deals on factory seconds candy that will be perfect for Valentines Day. It was hard to choose how many caramels, licorice, cotton candy, salt water taffy, and chocolates I would need. I hope that they have more sales in the future!

Lee says:

February 10th, 2009 at 11:23 am

Sure, there was a nice selection, but it would’ve been a nice heads up to know that they’d be accepting cash or check only. In a plastic society, I think they could’ve sold even more had they taken a debit card. No one in our group had cash or their checkbook … and when we talked about running back to the ATM, no one thought the deals and products were that amazing to make a second trip

Jason DeRusha says:

February 10th, 2009 at 3:55 pm

This was a great sale, and a great tip. We spent $8 and got probably $50 worth of candy. They were selling packaged smores for $2, and a bag of unpackaged for $1, I saw them in the WalMart sale ad Sunday for $5. Thanks!

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