Candy Store Owners: Attractively Display Your Jelly Belly Candy

Whether you're opening your first store or you've been in the retail business for a while, you might not realize there's a difference between plastic candy containers and acrylic candy containers. For some, this misunderstanding isn't a big deal; for others, however, it is. Some candy stores are required by their state health departments to display unwrapped candy, like Jelly Belly candy, with acrylic containers.

Fortunately, there are plenty of attractive, functional, and convenient acrylic containers to choose from!

Acrylic Round Face Bins

Just as the name suggests, acrylic round face bins have a round “face” that’s actually a hinged lid customers can roll to open and that keeps your candy fresh and safe from dust and debris. Most of these kinds of bins come with a side slot designed to hold an acrylic, plastic, or metal scoop so customers can access the candy and retrieve the amount they want without contaminating the rest of it.

To add even more convenience, acrylic round face bins are available in versions designed to sit on your countertop or table display and versions designed to hang from your slatwall fixtures.

Acrylic Mini Bins

Acrylic mini bins are similar to round face bins with two differences: Their hinged lids aren’t round and, true to their name, they’re much smaller. Mini bins are perfect for displaying Jelly Belly candy in stores that aren’t dedicated to selling only candy, or for stores that want to create a small candy display in limited space.

Like round face bins, most mini bins are complete with slots to hold candy scoops.

Acrylic Candy Towers

Acrylic candy towers make creating a candy display fun! These kinds of “tubed” candy bins are available in a variety of heights as well in half-round and full-round models, which give you the freedom to mix and match and create your own look.

Acrylic candy towers work best for countertop candy displays or displays situated on any other kind of sturdy, flat surface.

Acrylic Gravity Bins

Acrylic gravity bins are amazing space savers. Like round face bins, you can find them in both countertop display and wall display versions.

If you’re not quite sure what an acrylic gravity bin is, think of the kinds of bins stores, hotels, and restaurants use to display food products like coffee beans and grinds, cereal, and trail mix – the kinds of bins that release the product when you turn a lever. (Generally, these kinds of gravity bins don’t require candy scoops).

Of course, those aren’t the only kinds of gravity bins – some don’t require levers. Instead, gravity works to keep the base of the container full. These kinds of gravity bins work best with scoops.

Plastic and Acrylic Displays Are Ideal for Showcasing Bulk Candy

Candy stores aren’t the only establishments in the business of selling candy! So many retail locations showcase candy to create additional merchandise for customers, and the most popular – and convenient – places to showcase bulk candy using plastic containers or acrylic bins are your countertop, your floor, and your wall.

Create a Countertop Display

Countertop displays are probably the most popular way to display bulk candies (unless you manage an actual candy store, in which the entire establishment is a display!).

To create a countertop display of bulk candy, you can do one of two things (or, both):

1. Create Your Own: Acrylic bins come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and you can choose the ones that best fit your countertop and then situate them to create an attractive countertop display.
2. Get Some Help: You can find plastic bucket racks with 6, 8, and 10 buckets designed for showcasing small merchandise like bulk candies on your countertop. You can also use wire racks designed to hold acrylic radeus scoop bins. These racks usually hold a bin on the top shelf and a bin on the bottom shelf, maximizing your display space.
   

Create a Floor Display

Plastic containers and acrylic bins are just as ideal for floor displays as they are for countertop displays, and you can create attractive bulk candy displays on your store’s floor following the same two suggestions:

Consider these two ideas for bulk candy floor displays using acrylic bins:

1. Create Your Own: Creating your own floor display of bulk candy is easy! If you want to use acrylic bins or plastic containers to create bulk candy displays on the floor, you can position the same kinds of acrylic containers you would use for a countertop display on floor display racks. All you need are the acrylic bins best suited for your candy and a display rack designed for floor use. Once you have those tools, you can situate the display rack somewhere on your store’s floor that will offer the best visibility and convenience and then position your acrylic bins on the rack. Presto!
2. Get Some Help: Plastic bucket display racks designed for floor displays can help you quickly and conveniently showcase your bulk candy. These display racks come in fixed position and rotating models and you can find them with as many as 30 acrylic buckets.
   

Create a Wall Display

Walls are often forgotten when it comes to creating store displays, but creating wall displays are ideal ways to make the most of the space within a store.

If you’re considering a wall display for showcasing bulk candy, consider two options:

• Gravity Bins or Dry Food Dispensers: Gravity bins and dry food dispensers (names that are often used interchangeably) are some of the most popular acrylic containers for wall displays and excellent fixtures for holding bulk candy. You’ve probably seen these acrylic wall containers holding food items like dry cereals and coffee; however, gravity bins and dry food dispensers are perfect for displaying unwrapped bulk candies. The closed containers keep the candies clean while they wait for customers, and customers can easily access the amount of candy they want while leaving the rest untouched.
• Funnel Front Bins and Slatwalls: Funnel front acrylic bins fitted to mount to slatwalls generally include candy scoops or rakes (and side slots to hold them) for customers to push candy to a “funnel” and then open a door and catch the candy in a bag or container. Funnel front bins and slatwalls offer a lot of freedom because you can position your bins however high, low, close together, or far apart you want on the slatwall, and they’re generally easy to reposition if you ever want to change your display around.

Choosing Acrylic Candy Dispensers for Your Store

Any kind of store or restaurant that sells candy needs acrylic candy dispensers to organize and display the candy, as well as keep it clean and safe from the elements. Because there are numerous kinds of containers for these purposes, the selection process might feel overwhelming.

Below are five of the most common kinds of candy dispensers available. Scan through them and select the kind most suited for both your merchandise and the amount of space you have to work with within your establishment.

1. Standard Plastic Containers

Standard candy dispensers are those containers that generally stand alone along counter tops like those you see in convenience stores. They are available in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, and depending on the kind of candy you’re selling you can choose plastic containers with lids, handgrips, or both.

Racks, like those you see used in convenience store displays, are available for these standard containers. You can find large floor racks or smaller racks ideal for counter tops. Of course, you don’t have to attach your containers to racks; you can also create your own display by positioning in a way that is most convenient and attractive atop your counter top.

2. Bins with Scoops

Bins with scoops are ideal dispensers if you sell a large quantity of candy. You can also find bins with scoop holders so the scoops stay separated from the candy while they’re not in use.

You can find these kinds of bins in a variety of sizes, so depending on the space you have to work with you might want to select small bins for counter top displays or large bins if you have a sizeable aisle set aside for them.

3. Mounted Dry Food Dispensers

You might think dry food dispensers only apply to food items like dry cereals and coffee, but you can use these dispensers for an assortment of small candies. By using dispensers you can mount on the wall, you save space in your store and offer your customers convenience. They can easily scan the available candies and select which ones they want. Most mounted dispensers allow customers to access the candy through retention knobs that eliminate the need for scoops and help keep the candy protected.

4. Dispensers with Drawers

Dispensers with drawers are great for counter top displays. You can use these dispensers by themselves, or you can find them in bulks of four, six, and even twelve. Because of this, these acrylic candy dispensers can fit any counter top size and offer a wide range of display possibilities. Plus, keeping the candy inside a drawer helps keep in clean and sanitary.

5. Turntable Dispensers

Turntable dispensers are composed of plastic tubes of various heights and colors that make for attractive display possibilities. These tubes can hold an assortment of small candies and offer convenience for customers because they can easily turn the dispensers to access the candy they want. Turntable dispensers are generally small enough for counter top displays.

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