Remember when Sears sold candy?

I remember that counter in Sears too. Yum! When I was a kid I think I looked forward to going to Sears more for that than my (few) new clothes. You could always smell the fresh popcorn poppin' as soon as you went through the door! And those nuts roasting... OMG!

As far as candy, I always got those sugared fruit slices and sour "michigan" cherries and chocolate covered caramels or raisins. The chocolate covered fruity nougat stuff you're asking about - I think were called CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAMS - My Mom loved those. I used to bite off a tiny chip on the edge so I could get a little peek inside and sometimes I would get lucky and one would have fudge inside... Mmmmmm! The only place I know that sells something close to those candies now is Fannie Mae (I'm in Chicago).

I'm not sure if that's the correct name but you just took me down memory lane... Thanks!

Sears Candy Counter

Oh I was just thinking about those candy counters at Sears! I was wondering if anyone else remembered them so I was glad to see your question!

I remember them back in the 1970s - I don't know when they removed them. I was a kid and I loved seeing the peanuts being roasted in oil - seems they had an automated basket that removed them when the time was up. I thought that was so cool as a kid.

I'm sorry I don't know about the bon bon candy you are remembering. The only thing I remember getting there were non pareils and jelly fruit slices, since that is all my mom would allow.

But yes - I remember those candy departments!

The "fresh popcorn " came in a big bag and was dumped into the popcorn area for it to be warned up. The nuts came in steel containers which had to be cut open. The candy came in forty pound boxes. The three kinds of fudge were boxed. The jelly slices came boxed. The chocolate covered orange and raspberry stings came boxed. The Maple Nut Goodies and the Double-dipped chooclatecovered peanuts came in bags. The store room was about 12X16 and had a commercial refrigeration system. Yeh, that metal scoop, the scales and the paper bag. Oh Wow! Nobody has mentioned the helium balloons.

Yes! I would be so excited as a little girl when my mom would give me a quarter and I'd go ask for a bag of chocolate malted balls. That was my choice. I loved the soft chocolate and then the crunch of the malted balls. It was so much fun to see the guy behind the counter with the little paper hat dig into those candies with the large metal scoop and weigh them on the scale, then hand them to me in a paper bag. Such a great memory. Thank you for that!

I don't know the type of candy you are referring to but I know they always came in those chocolate heart boxes. They still sell those heart boxes.

I wish I knew the candy you're remembering. As a kid in Michigan in the 1970s, the only thing I bought at the Sears candy counter was a gummy-style kind of candy that in my memory was called "Swedish Fruit". A little softer than modern gummi-bears, it had a variety of shapes and colors and the lady behind the counter would scoop them up and hand me a little white paper bag of them. Thanks for sparking the memory!

I worked as a stockboy in 1968 at the Sears in Fresno Ca. I remember opening the square metal cans holding red and white pistachio nuts from Iran. Boy were the red ones messy and the white ones super salty. My favorite of all were the Jordan almonds.

My favorite was the honeycomb. It was a chocolate covered light golden candy. It came in big chunks. I would buy a piece (or what ever my nickel would allow) then go over to the appliance dept and open the refrigerators and look at all the fake food. This was in the early 60's in Riverside Calif.

I also remember that counter when I was little. The big thing in our family was that my dad would by the chunks of pure milk chocolate for Christmas about 1 inch think x 1.5 inches long and one inch wide ( approx) and only at Christmas. it was a wonderful and rare treat for us. Wonder where I could get that type of chocolate now?

I loved to smell the roasted nuts too. My Daddy loved the Spanish peanuts. Does anyone remember what the bad looked like that put them in? I would love to do a "remember when" treat for Christmas!