Plymouth Sweet Spot, The Candy Trail, Coming to ‘Bittersweet’ End

PLYMOUTH, MI — Well, this is a bitter end to Plymouth’s sweet spot. Sandi McGrew is closing her Ann Arbor Trail business, The Candy Trail, on April 1, ending an eight year run.

McGrew, newly retired from DTE Energy and the insurance business, opened the store in 2009 during the depths of the Great Recession. She figured at the time — and market research backed it up — that people might have to give up other things, but they shouldn’t have to give up candy.

“People eat candy and it makes them happy,” McGrew told the newspaper. “They still buy candy in a bad economy.”

Indeed they did. The shop, known for its Squirrel Nut Zippers, Mary Janes, Laffy Taffy, chocolate Ice Cubes and Sifers Valomilk, flourished.

She told The Plymouth Observer that closing The Candy Trail is “bittersweet,” but that it’s time to “slow down and live my life.”

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