B.A. Sweetie Candy

Let me start by saying, I love sweeties. My kids love going to pick out fun and different candies. My complaint is with the ice cream shop. The ice cream was fabulous, but we had terrible awful service. Maybe it was an off night, but we waited 20 minutes after being seated before someone even came over to talk to us. I heard the guy go to another woman who was working and tell her he forgot about us, that’s fine, accidents happen. What really made us mad was that after that they both pawned us off on another girl without so much as an apology. They just both went on to do whatever they were doing. The waitress we had after that was great, and I really wish I would have caught her name, so I could have called and told the manager that she was. Over all, great ice cream, bad service.

Love, love, love the new location! My husband is a candy junkie. I swear I’m married to an 8 year old at times the way he loves candy so we was in heaven wandering down the aisles of the new location. When we went to check out they gave us a complimentary box of chocolates — bonus! We can’t wait to return. There are so many interesting things to try and so many nostalgic things to bring you back to your childhood. Yum!

5÷21÷16
This was a fun stop. They had every candy imaginable. The prices are high, but the inventory is amazing! The store was a bit of a mess but we did choose to go on a Saturday so that’s going to happen.
They have an ample parking lot and on the side of the building they have wide parking spaces for strollers or car seats. That needs to catch on! That was a nice treat to have the room to get our son out of the car without contorting ourselves.
There is a soda shop in the front of the store that we did not visit. We’ll save that for next time. :)

Fun place to go and feel like a kid again. They have all of the fun old candy that you had growing up! It is a must experience!

The NUMBER ONE destination here in Cleveland to satisfy your candy fix. They got all kinds of candy from A to Z, even the sugar free kind. They even have a huge collection of sodas/​pops as well, especially the old-​school name brands. Did I even mention that the employees who work there are friendly as well?

You’re not going here to get the best prices on candy, that should be obvious. This is a Destination, not a store. Every time we’ve come to the Cleveland area, I’ve brought by family. It’s truly a Kid in a Candy Store experience. My daughters now 15 and has watched this place grow, and move across the street, and now they’re opening their own soda shop on property! (Looking forward to that next trip!)
It’s fun to grab a basket and peruse every aisle, trying to find the oddest flavors of Mike and Ike’s or the most nostalgic chocolates. The soda selection is killer: celery, birthday cake, apple pie, maple and bacon flavored sodas, etc. it’s just a great experience. I like to watch the little kids faces in this place… And the staff are equally affable.

This place is awesome! It’s very much a candy warehouse. They have such a huge selection of candy! I love all the novelty stuff and old candies you don’t see anymore. A lot of reviewers seem to be complaining about prices being higher than wal mart. Personally I’d rather pay a few cents more for my candy bar and support a cool local business rather than Walmart or Amazon…

We go for the hard to find candy, but most of the run of the mill can’t is over priced, so is he seasonal candies. The staff is always friendly, which always a plus. My daughter loves the crazy soda selection and the root beer barrels, I love the cinnamon hearts and Razzles.

Imagine that candy from your childhood that you love. Go to B.A. Sweetie to it and even every type of candy you didn’t even know existed! They have a huge aisle of different types of pop. I was trying to find the Stewart’s Key Lime, which they didn’t have, but they did have a key lime substitute. They have aisles and aisle of bulk candy. They have a huge wall of every flavor of Jelly Belly jelly beans. You can get lost in this giant candy warehouse – it is what children’s dreams are made of!

While I agree with most reviewers that their selection is second to none, their pricing is also second to none. In fact, I have never seen price points this ridiculously high. If you are a candy «warehouse» I would surely think your price points would be as good as Wal-​Mart or better. For example, individual candy bars at .99 when Target or Wal-​Mart are .69 or .79. Bags of 6.5z Lifesavers at 2.59 when I bought the same bag for 1.79 at Target. Also, be very cognizant of the dates on the product. If look above their Jelly Belly section you will see numerous excess Jelly Belly that is out of date by as much as 16 months.
If your looking for that strange hard to find candy, then go here. If your looking for regular candy that you are used to buying, then by all means go anywhere else.

Visited August 2013
This place is huge! Just when you thought you were done you would turn the corner & there was more! If you are in the area stop in… you might be surprised at what you find here!

The largest candy store in Ohio! Can buy in bulk A well as singles. Has a plethora of vintage candy! Easy to find your way around and staff are very helpful! A great place to to find unique candy! One of the best! Priced very good!

My husband and I came here after reading reviews before our trip to Ohio. We loved the atmosphere and the huge selection! We will definitely be back on our next trip!

Literally any type of candy you could want is sold here, and it’s probably in bulk. We easily spent an hour here just going down all the aisles and trying to decide what to get.
The prices were very fair for what you get. I think they’re also opening up an ice cream shop next door.

There are a lot of high reviews on here for this place, so excuse me if I offend anyone. I think this place is junky. Sure, it is a warehouse filled with candy… But, after seeing commercials for B. A Sweetie for years and years, my husband and I finally decided to visit, and it’s nothing like what I expected. I guess I expected it to be more like the organized and adorable Hershey place, in Hershey, PA.
The prices are steep for candy. Anything that I found at Sweeties, I could find for less money on Amazon. Even hard to find candies.
I gave 3 stars because I was able to find my beloved sour patch cherries, which I haven’t had since high school.
After looking over the pictures that other reviewers have posted, I feel like I was in a totally different place. When we went, they weren’t stocked up on much of anything, and it wasn’t as organized as it is in the pictures.

This place is awesome. They have every candy you could thing of (domestic at least) and lots of sodas and other fun things. Its relatively reasonably priced, but some things really didn’t seem like that great a deal which was a bummer for buying in bulk.
We went as a tourist activity when we had an hour to kill before going to the airport and it was actually pretty fun.
Be aware there are two buildings (one old, one new) so make sure you go to the right one.

Fun candy warehouse to shop while visiting Cleveland. Some large bulk packages were overpriced. They had a nice Easter candy section. Also bought some specialty sodas.

Amazing. This is the real worlds happiest place.
So much Pez! Rows and rows of candy. If it’s not here, it doesnt exist. Gummy, sour, jelly, gum, chocolate, anything you want, you’ll find it. Many open check out lanes.
This is a must stop. The largest candy store in the USA!

The selection of candy and soda in this store is absolutely fantastic. I found a few items that I haven’t seen in ages. I love the selection of bulk candy they had too. But the staff that stock the shelves is beyond rude. They complain every time a costumer knocked something off a shelf or if a child put something back in the wrong area. It was to a point where you could here a single female employee complaining about everyone shopping throughout the entire store. So overall the store is pretty wonderful and the cashiers are super fantastic but the angry employees in the aisles made this my first and last trip to this store.

«Little kid in a candy store» is an understatement…
I was really in shock walking in here. My brother had told me about it for years but I never found time to just look around for candy. When I want candy, it’s usually… (RIGHT NOW!) not (drive to Parma and hunt through a warehouse). However, hearing my dad talk about a candy bar he used to buy all the time when he was a kid made me wonder if B.A.S. carried this nostalgic item.
My boyfriend and I made a day of it and decided to put candy in everyone’s Christmas stockings this year. Oh… and buy some stuff for us too obviously. I have to be honest and say that the novelty wore off a bit when I discovered the prices were the same, if not higher, than candy at your average grocer. Still, I was determined to find this mysterious candy bar. I looked high and low for a Necco chocolate bar (not the wafers), with four different fillings in one bar. No luck. Finally I asked someone and they obviously had no idea what I was talking about. I was beginning to think my dad was the only one who had purchased this candy bar in the 50’s for a nickle. Finally some kid came over and told me they were called Sky bars and they were sold out. If I hadn’t scoured that warehouse high and low looking for this damn chocolate, I would have hung my head in defeat and walked out the door, never to return due to severe discouragement. Alas! I HAD scoured that store and was certain I had seen a box of Sky bars somewhere. So, after another 10 to 15 minutes of backtracking, I found 3 cases of Sky Bars. Know your inventory, kid! I informed him that they in fact were not sold out and purchased my candy. We walked out of there with a full grocery bag for $ 30. Not bad.
Even though the prices weren’t amazing and I was given false information about my quest, I walked out of here feeling victorious. Watching my dad pull that candy bar out of his stocking and the smile grow on his face gave this store it’s stars. It was pretty awesome.