Strawser's Ice Cream Pop & Candy Shop

A small business candy shop that *feels* like a small business. If you like the idea of candy shops but hate supporting the gigantic chains, this one is super cute. I ended up getting a bunch of craft Root Beers I've never seen before!PROS:-Large variety of candies and craft sodas. They have modern options in addition to some of the old-fashioned options that I've never seen anywhere else. -There's so much! Every shelf as far as your eyes can see is filled with candies and sodas. It's overwhelming but in the best of ways. It makes you want to walk slowly down every aisle and ensure you don't miss anything. -It feels very Grove City, and that makes me happy. Not only do they have booklets for "Food Challenges" for Grove City businesses, but they also have Letters for Santa drop offs, magazines about the area, and more. During the holiday season, the store has lots of Grinch/holiday decor too. -There are "Fill Your Own Bowls for $5" at the back of the store that seem to be a focus for families. I watched multiple families beeline their way back there and then give their kids a bowl to fill up. It does make for a lot of frantic hyped-up kids (but you're in a candy store, so you probably should expect that), but it seems like a really good value for the parents. CONS:-It's definitely a small business on a main street. The store itself is decently small, and the aisles are mostly a "one person at a time" thing. I watched a woman turn around (with a purse on her back) and knock a stack of candies onto the ground with her purse. If you need lots of space to maneuver (I don't think a wheelchair would fit in these aisles), this place might be a problem. On the plus side, it seems to happen often, and everything breakable is on the bottom-most shelves. -One staff member was running the place, and I assume that's probably the case most of the time. Every one of the craft soda bottles (on the bottle shelves) had a layer of dust on them; I imagine it's hard to keep up with dusting and cleaning everything superficial with bare bones staff. -Stock was pretty light. Especially with the soda, there were a lot of holes of out-of-stock flavors (especially in the coolers). Some candies were down to their last couple too.

Came back to Strawsers and they now have ice cream served in cups or cones. They have a wide variety of candy and sodas too.The ice cream was good and so was the customer service.

A wide variety of candy. The Heggy's candy is from a Canton based store and is really good. There are fun choices of candy and sodas. The ice cream is good and they do have cones, sundaes, etc. There are a limited number of flavors of ice cream but what we tried was very good.