Can anyone remember,black jacks and fruit salads, four for a penny (an old penny)
They are still available, but not for that price, more like 1p each.
It our shop if it was busy we sell the children 10p or 50p bags of sweets we filled, but if it was not busy we let the children choose what 1p sweets they wanted and sometimes that was a long process
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We kept the 1p sweets under the glass fronted counter so that they would nag there parents to buy some, just one more way to increase turnover.