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Category: Candy Stores [Edit]
Neighborhood: Lower East SideDelancey-Essex Sts (F, J, M, Z)
2nd Ave-Houston St (F, V)
Grand St (B, D)
Mon-Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sun. 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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LOVE! best place to get a candy obsessed friend a gift. there are candies there I've basically been brought up on. it's a lovely place except for:
the bad attitude of some of the employees.
some items are over prices EX. 6.99/lb for jelly beans. :( my fav candy in the world.
oher than that, if you're looking for a gift for your parents they have alot of stuff from the 30's +
Holy sweetness this place has so much candy!!!! They even have halvah (3 different types!). This is a great place to kill time in while waiting for your table at Freemans, a place to pick up dessert afterward, or a destination unto itself! They seem to carry every 'mainstream' candy and a lot of Euro-candy that is hard to find in the states. Yay!
4 stars for amazing candy selection, and an extra star for the cute cat that seems to live in the store. Note to self: check to see if they have Charleston Chew next time.. my new favorite candy!
I felt like a kid in a candy store.
I'm amazed that people can get so excited to (over)pay for candy. I guess that is just part of the lure of Economy Candy Market. Their mission probably reads: "Doing whatever we can to keep overlooked candy manufacturers in business for generations."
It doesn't have the contemporary retail design of Dylan's Candy Bar, or the high-concept touristy feel of M & M's World, but if you venture downtown to Economy Candy, this will all fade into the background as you luxuriate in seeing every candy you've ever wanted or dreamed about at your fingertips!
Economy Candy is an old school confectionery that's all about the merchandise. Candy is stacked floor to ceiling. If you know what you're after, the service can be good. Prices are decent, cheaper than Dylan's, but not as cheap as the corner store. It's a good place to stop if you're in the neighborhood, or if you're trying to find that special something that will make your loved one love you more.
Soooo much variety!!!! i wish i had spare sets of teeth!... A lot of candy bring back old memories... also Garbage Pail Kids stickers!!!! chocolates, candies, you name it! and great prices! Best place to go for "Treat or Treating"... forget Dylan's unless you have money to burn...
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Yessss!!!!
Buckets and buckets
Candy: Suckers, and gummies.
Old school tastes abound.
Forgive my haiku. This place is awesome, except:
-Their hours are inconsistent;
-The people who work there are often too engaged in their own conversations to help customers;
-The layout makes the store feel even more cramped than it is.
Despite these flaws, this place is amazing. You can buy candy by weight or grab a bag of the prepackaged (pre-weighed) stuff. More importantly---they have all that candy that you thought no one made and sold anymore: jujubes, whistle pops, pop rocks, etc. There are lunch boxes, halva, and nuts, too, though this stuff doesn't seem as exciting in a store whose name includes "candy."
My personal favorites include:
The different types of licorice. Word to the wise: stay away from the double salted stuff; it is salty.
Chocolate covered sunflower seeds. If you haven't had these yet you should try them. (My taste is impeccable.)
Meet you there tomorrow?
This is an honest-to-goodness old candy warehouse. It isn't gorgeous, but it's bountiful. Lots of candies I haven't seen since childhood, including but not limited to, candy buttons, mary janes, and a wide assortment of candy cigarettes.
Could there be anywhere better? This place is overwhelming. The prices are great and they have every type of candy or chocolate you could want. You'll love...GO!
OMG.
Heaven! The front of the store, you can fill your own bag for $2.99 a pound. The rest of the store...I could only gape in wonder.
They sell Kinder Surprise. I've only seen it in Mexico...I almost cried with joy when I saw a stack of them. =D
BEST OF YELP--for all that is yelpworthy--this place is the bomb. I cant really add much to the volumes of reviews.
It is cluttered-busy--and I have actually been in stores in MASS and FL with greater varieties; there is just something magical about this place. Clever giftbaskets--risque containers=helpful staff--this all adds up to the perfect place to get gifts-stocking stuffers or revive childhood memories.
After having my Willie wonka/Beaver Cleaver experience I ventured up to the cash register-expecting the total to be $20-$25. I had to swoon-and i hadnt had any candy yet
$11.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PRICE-PRICE-PRICE!! very reasonable-when you buy items by the pound.
This place is one of a kind-ENOUGH SAID!
there's a reason i don't buy candy.
i eat it all. in a disgustingly short amount of time.
but it's great candy and you can get almost anything your heart desires.
me? i go for the swedish fish.
Life changingly amazing. Next time you want a case of wax lips or a three dollar bag of candy corn that'll barely fit in your purse, come to the Economy Candy Market. No frills which means cheap prices and no tourists. And also lots of candy buttons. I'm grateful I don't live near here cause otherwise, I would, well, basically live here.
I live for gummy candy; it's probably one of my main food groups. Whenever I'm in Europe, I think I singlehandedly contribute to boosting the Eurozone's GDP based on my consumption of gummy candy. There's nothing like really, really fresh Haribo gummies or marzipan. There must be some kind of magnetic force that always finds me making up an excuse to go into a candy store. So naturally, when a friend told me that I'd fall in love with Economy Candy here in New York (because I'm really not a fan of Dylan's), I was all about paying a visit. In my mind, I had pictured bulk shipments of all of the Haribo candies that are so neatly arranged by color in the European candy stores.
I could not be more wrong. First of all, Economy Candy's selection of gummy candy is way limited. There are fewer than a dozen Haribo varieties there. They are packaged in pre-weighed plastic baggies and I was surprised that they allow the stuff to sit on the shelves so long (the packing dates are on the labels, and some of them were sitting there for a month!) Because I had made the trip, I settled on the cherries as a consolation prize, because they had been sitting on the shelf for the shortest amount of time. Despite the fact that they were the "freshest," they still tasted stale to me. Half a pound of Haribo cherries were deep sixed in a garbage can on Rivington Street.
Just from perusing the other sections (i.e., the torrone, Cadbury chocolates, etc.) there's something about the place that just seems musty or dirty. It could be all the clutter, but I just got a bad vibe about it. I did see some hard-to-find and old-school stuff there, so if you're looking for some obscure or discontinued candy, this is probably a good place to start your quest.
Yes, it is ALWAYS packed with people.
Yes, they have candy from wall to wall from the floor to the ceiling.
Yes, they have amazingly disgusting looking creations like edible Halloween masks and gummy rats.
They used to have an amazing 3 for $5 deal but I didn't see it the last time I was there.
Their selection is enormous, so trust me when I say this: GET READY FOR A SUGAR COMA.
Wow, you walk into this store and people are happy! It's amazing. Everyone - who were mostly older than the age of 25 - was just walking around sighing, reminiscing and smiling. Does it get much better?
Wait... IT DOES - all I'm gonna say is Chocolate Covered Gummy Bears.
That's right. They got em.
Amazing.
They...have...so...much candy here!
Literally the whole store is covered with candy. I didn't even bother looking at the stuff I could get at a Duane Reade or a CVS because I was too busy looking at the imported candy or the bars that are hard to find. Ended up getting some Aero, Zero, Cherry Mash, and strawberry Charleston Chew. Wow. I relived some serious childhood memories when I bit into those bars.
Nostalgia factor is high in this place.
This place is real and one of a kind. Economy candy is an alternative to high priced Dillans, and has just as much in stock. Sometimes you cant find the same thing twice, because they go with what is available.
But every time i go to new york i stop here. I love their watermelon sour belts!!
I can't believe I have yet to review this WONDERFUL GOD'S GIFT TO MY SWEET TOOTH, and reason why my dentist is such a rich, but overworked man! Haha!
I used to go here at least once a week, I know I'm a fatty, but I lived around the corner, and happened to walk past it on my way home, even though it was extending my commute by two blocks, but c'mon! I'm giving support to the local shops! ;-) okay okay, I digress!
The reason why this place rocks is that it has all the candy you can imagine, and it's all super economical, hence "Economy Candy". I was told by patrons that lived in the area way prior to urban gentrification, that it was even larger (almost thrice) than it's current status, which is crazy, cause it's pretty big now!
* * one suggestion, don't go in their with big bags, cause even though it's big, it's jam packed with all the candy you can imagine, so it's a pain to walk around if you have stuff bulking out. * *
Enjoy! And don't forget to brush and floss! :)
Brings you back to childhood memory. Nostalgic!
It is a great store, but it is so bad for diet!
You somehow feel healed by going there watching great candies.
This place has such a strong psychological effect.
I ONLY go there occasionally since I watch my waist line.
There's a reason this place has been in business since 1937. This is candy heaven! Absolutely the best, most fun candy store in all of NYC. It's filled from floor to ceiling with candy, chocolate, nuts and other goodies. Every imaginable candy you've ever had is available here, under one roof! Even many of the candies you remember as a kid that are no longer available anywhere else - yep, they've got 'em! They carry many candies from around the world that are not always easy to find either. The service is brisk, yet very friendly. Service with a smile and a sense of humor can be found here. When I come here to shop, I feel like a kid again. I always leave with a bag full of treats like those yummy and hard to find little Puntini candy "chips" from Italy, some home made chocolate covered graham crackers, some b-b-bats, those atom bomb red hot cinnamon balls, yummy Bounty, Lion and Cadbury bars from the UK and more. I could go on for hours, but it's better to go see and experience this place for yourself.
It's like taking a trip down memory lane to Willie Wonka's chocolate factory!
Great Candy Store
Not big and fancy, just all the types of candy you want and need
So go and visit, and grab candy that you though you'd never see again.
**Even sugar-free candies**
**A lot of Different Jellybeans**
if you like candy of ANY kind, this place is for you.
the walls are literally packed with any kind of candy you can imagine. they even have chocolate covered chocolate beans!!! crazy!
minus one star for all the candy i was forced to buy and subsequently eat right away. it's just not fair. no one has enough will power to go in here and not walk out with a basket full (that's right, there are shopping baskets available for you to buy as much candy/chocolate as possible) of sweets. these people are taking advantage of suckers like me.
This place has the biggest selection of candy that I have ever seen. Ever. Bulk candy and packaged candy, old candy and familiar candy, un-PC candy, classy candy, novelty candy. Solids, liquids, powders, even aerosols, in all their sugary renditions. Candy toys and accessories. You kind of start forgetting that all of it is edible (just like "candy" stops looking like a real word...).
It honestly wasn't that "economical" and the aisles are annoyingly narrow, but if you just want some damn candy, walk into Economy Candy and rejoice.
My SFBFF has quite a sweet tooth. So it was with much pleasure that I explored the aisles of Economy Candy to bring her some loot. I stopped to inspect the many pretty tins filled with sweet stuff, snagged a few Pez dispenser-like objects and several packs of chewing gum with witty barbs printed on their boxes. But the moment I spotted my own favorite candy, Kinder Happy Hippo snacks, I knew I had to get a box for her.
And when she opened them on Christmas morning and ended up loving them too? The joy in my heart was unmatched! Thank you Economy Candy for helping me make one of my favorite people happy!
I swear I heard a harp playing & angels singing when I stepped into this place. A sugar addict like me should be banned from wall to wall & shelf to shelf candy stores such as this one, because I could seriously spend my life savings here. Everything is really cheap. I found two of my favorite candies, which I can never find anywhere else: Zero candy bar & Skybars. This is the perfect place to find the sweets your inner child has been throwing a tantrum for all these years. Love it!
Love love love this candy shop! First candy shop that I have liked so much from the moment I stepped inside. Like everyone says, it brings back fond memories of candy in childhood. This store has soooo many candies from imports to "old fashion" candy to current ones and candies from long ago. Definitely any kind of candy that you can imagine. Not to mention not overpriced like all the other candy shops. Recommended for all candy lovers!!!
Sugar Addicts, Chocolate Addicts and women going through PMS beware!
What can you possibly say about a store full of candy. What possible complaint can you have when you have loose candy everywhere waiting for you to fill your plastic bag with (they require that you have at least a 1/4 pound and will send you back until you get that weight). You can choose all the vanilla (blue) tootsie rolls and no one will say a word about it.
In the middle of all that loose candy, you get all the vintage candy that you vaguely remember from your youth (including candy cigarettes, which I remember blowing through one to shoot out the sugar).
They also have an amazing selection of chocolate covered everything but the best is the rum cordials. That is something you do not find often. They also have a great selection of seasonal stuff too, which means that Christmas, Easter and Halloween makes this place even more fun (if that is possible).
The also have marmalade, tea, and nuts.
And when you get all your candy and wait on line, they throw even more candy in front of you on the line, so you always find some last minute items. This place gets very crowded, so you might want to go when it is not too busy so that you can really take your time.
I went to Junior High School about a block away...That was back in the day...there were still penny candies at the corner store. There was a girl in our class named Yee-Ming...I pray she never reads this review...yee-ming was a cool chick. She was a drummer with us...she had braces...she was skinny...our social studies teacher called her jap girl and made racist japanese remarks directed towards her...all the time...she was chinese...so she never cared...so yee ming was the middle school equivalent of a drug dealer...she peddled CANDY!
Yep...Yee-Ming always had the goods...gum..candy...everything...even hard to find stuff that was from back in the day, back in the day..you know..if you needed to get that fix...Yee-Ming had you...I dont know what she was chargin or if she was chargin..I just know Yee-Ming was makin money somewhere cause she always had like 20bucks worth of candy every day and by the end of the day it was gone..yep...Yee-Ming could move the goods...it was crazy..like New Jack City..but candy...
Oh yeah...Economy Candy Market...so every now and again Yee-Ming would get busted cause you can't be bringing all that weight up in a Public School like that...there are rules...they don't want people high off all that good candy up in the school...so Yee-Ming used to get busted and I am almost sure that Economy Candy was her supplier but Yee -Ming was a real woman and I dont thing she would ever give up her sources...not Yee-Ming...so my point is...they been movin kilos for YEARS...like a century...seriously...I vouch for them...if you need kilos of the good stuff nobody else has...this is where you go..and if you happen to bump into an asian chick who looks way to young to have lost all her teeth already...you tell Yee-Ming I said I miss her..she was my dawg and even though we were on the wrong side of the war on candy...she never never gave up her source...so keep ya lips shut too...
For someone who eats as many Jelly Belly jellybeans as I do, $6.99/lb is a steal! It's a far better price than you can get at the drugstore, even on sale. And so many flavors! Pomegranate, gadzooks! 7Up, teehee! Mint choco chip, shiver me timbers! But as much as I heart filling that plastic bag with the clickity-clack of jellybeans, the European pastilles aisle was pretty awesome too. Violettes, tea flavored bonbons, raspberry drops... And of course, who could not love the human-head sized Chupa-Chup lollipops?
*This review is dedicated to Lauren, who somehow remembered my favorite flavor and gave me dozens of pear Jelly Bellies in a paper bag!
If this place doesn't make you feel like a kid again then you need to check your pulse for signs of life. No matter what your persuasion there is something here for everyone. The amount of candy in this store is just staggering. I scored a bag of grapefruit gummy candy which I ate for breakfast immediately after leaving the store. Heh.
There's no fancy decor like some high end candy stores in the city, but what this place has is tons and tons of candies right in your face the moment you walk in, literally. The isles are tight and everywhere you turn there's all these candies in all varieties. Walking through the store brings back my childhood memories of candies I haven't seen in a really long time, which is kind of sad and makes me realize that I am old haha. But it's a really awesome place to buy candies for a pretty cheap price.
Go back in time, when you were a kid, in love with candy. The smell is overwhelming. Black crows, Boyer's peanut butter cups, candy cigarettes, Look bars, etc, etc etc..I could live in this store. Go visit!!
Blast to my sugar-filled past, indeed. Where do I start? The two walls of jelly bellies? The 10lb bag of candy for $18? Or perhaps the fun and inappropriately named packs of gum at the front of the store?
I'll just write down my personal favorites from the store. I describe this place to my friends as like a "costco of candy" and it piques their interest enough so that they'll be dragged-- I mean, they'll let me guide them to the nirvana of old-school candy.
o) Katzenzugen, or "chocolate cat tongues"
o) Linda's Lollies (I bought the chocolate marshmallow sundae flavor)
o) 4" tall gummy bear
o) Giant pixie stix. The ones that used to be as tall as I was.
o) Mini dispensers of jelly bellies, complete with scooper!
o) Chocolate Oranges (am I the only one who remembers these?)
There are others, of course. Nerds, Heath bars, peppermint bark, bags of chocolate covered whatever-you-can-imagines, swedish fish (ew), and various other sweets that I am trying to block out of my memory so I can go a few more days without a return trip.
Do you want to go into a hypoglycemic coma?
The array of candy products is overwhelming and absolutely devine. I love Economy Candy
I discovered Blow Pop Minis here, and for that reason alone Economy Candy is awesome.
From cheap bulk candy to both Jelly Belly and M&M bars to specialty products and baking chocolate from all over the world, Economy Candy is THE PLACE TO GO.
I will go there for all my candy needs from now until the end of days.
Economy Candy has candy to the point where it's intimidating.
PROS:
-Nearly any candy made. Ever.
CONS:
-Small space
-You're going to get fat
ETC:
This is literally the king of candy stores. It's like a palace, only the walls are made out of candy. Commercial candy, independent candy, novelty candy. I was on a kick for grape flavored stuff, and I was certainly satiated by their selection. Def. gets sort of cramped at peak hours. But seriously- candy.
A candy lover's sweetest dream, A dentist's worst nightmare
I probably passed by this place more than a dozen times, but that's only when I was bar hopping at night, hours after its closed for the day. I always wonder how this place is like. "Does it sell really old and outdated candies?", "Wouldn't they get moldy?", "Ew...."
Anyway, let's just say its nothing like that. Upon entering, you see people busy stacking the shelves with chocolates and other candies. This place has all kinds of candies, and about 80% of them foreign, so most you never tried b4. The prices are quite agreeable, much cheaper than Dylan's Candy Store. We brought a bunch of chocolates from them, and came out to less than ~$17. Can't wait to try them all, but I will wait til I can give some to my gf first. I tried the Yorkie chocolate. I only brought it cuz of the printed subtitle "It's not for girls!" I don't understand why. But I was laughing and had to try it. Its smooth and creamy. Plenty of milk chocolate flavor. (Okay, just looked it up the reason why its not for girls is the breakable chunks are huge, kinda like popping a gumball in your mouth, so I guess).
I will definitely be back, although I wonder what my dentist will say when I have my bi-annual check up in March.
Well organized, and clean. Friendly sales people who don't mock the wide-eyed tourists and natives who act like they've already had enough sugar for the day.
+1 for having a decent price on candy. They seem about right considering I haven't eaten many of these things in 20 years.
+1 for every time I gave an inner "ZoMg!!!1, they have these!" I wasn't able to manage to use that inner voice every time. Damn.
I spent ONLY 8 bucks here, so I didn't feel that much like a dork.
-1 for every cavity I will get from this candy.
-1 for every tummy ache I get from this, as my adult stomach can't seem to handle Lik-m-Aid like it used to.
My teeth hurt.
And yes it STILL gets 5 stars. ZoMG!!!!11111
If you were born in the 80s/90s - remember the first time you went into a candy store, and how you kinda wanted to buy every package of Nerds, candy cigarettes, and other artificially colored/flavored thing imaginable. That's what you'll find here.
I highly recommend having a Saturday boozy brunch around the area, then stumble into Economy Candy for a great finish on the afternoon. Then, enjoy your sugar induced nap.
I'm torn. I feel there are two directions I could take my Economy review.
Option 1:
Who can take a sunrise? Sprinkle it in dew, Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two?
Economy Candy! Economycandy can! Economycandy can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good!
Option 2:
F**k Dylan's and it's uppity up up upness. Economy is where the cool kids get their lollies.
You tell me. Either way, Five candy-riffic stars.
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