I recently stopped by this Five Below location in search of freeze dried ice cream, and found it…read more
Just for a little background context, my sister is really heavy into TikTok (SteelMaceSkaterChick) where, apparently, freeze dried candy and ice cream have been major trends this year. (I sincerely would not know, so I take her word for it.)
I swear she's brought it up every single day for the past six months. I knew I wouldn't like it, but I had to "try it" to prove it.
Enter Five Below, Fresno. This Five Below is located in the Marketplace at River Park, which is a huge shopping center with lots of big box stores and smaller stores alike.
The first thing I noticed about the store is that is was clean, brightly lit, and well-organized. Even though the recovery left a bit to be desired, it still looked pretty good overall.
I was easily able to find the candy section, because it's like, a quarter of the store. Inside of the candy section, I found an entire endcap of freeze dried candies and ice cream sandwiches.
Unfortunately, the only flavor of ice cream sandwich they had was strawberry shortcake. I don't like these frozen, so I didn't have a good feeling about the freeze dried version. But, like I said, I had to try it, so I could tell my sister that I did.
The cashier was helpful. She supervised me while I (and later another guest) used the self checkout, which I found to be simple and self-explanatory. Even though she didn't really have to help me, she was still nice, greeted me, told me to have a nice day, etc.
Although I didn't care for the taste and texture of the product I purchased, that's not Five Below's fault-- it just wasn't my thing.
"I should have told you, I only like the candy from Five Below. I like the ice cream sandwiches from the camping section at Wal-Mart."
"Aren't those like, ten dollars each?"
"That's why I didn't tell you. I knew you would think that was expensive."
Good experience with this store. It's not often that I find myself in need of a product specifically sold by Five Below, but if that happened again, I would definitely come back to this location.