Cute store, really nice staff but the candy and chocolate is massively overpriced. The 'handmade' chocolate is priced by weight and not actually made locally. read more

Robin's Candy - Candy Stores Near Me - Great Barrington, Massachusetts

I bought what was labeled as "super strong" peppermint bark - worst I've ever tasted. Either old and stale or not real chocolate (hard to believe for what I paid )! Ridiculously overpriced and not even good. Also had chocolate covered malt balls and peach "juicy" gummies. Slightly better, but not great. No way worth the exorbitant price. read more

I haven't been here in a long time!! There is so much to see from the moment you walk in! Candy chocolate candy chocolate!! They offer unique flavors and candies you can't find anywhere else!! There is definitely something for everyone! The owner is so nice and has been there a long time. With every purchase you get a sticker and a toothbrush ! Brush those teeth!! read more

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$45.00 per lb. for fudge? How is that even possible?! Goodness gracious. No thank you, Robin. read more

This is a super cute candy shop! Very quaint local spot. They have so many fun options. Jelly bean station with a ton of flavors. Lots of novelty candy bars you won't be able to find in grocery stores or pharmacies. They have premade chocolates, truffles, and fudge as well. This would be a great spot for kids and families! Check it out if you're in the area. read more

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The owner has priced the same things much higher that are sold elsewhere including on Amazon for significantly less money.There is another wonderful store in Lenox, the general store, that has many of the same old fashioned candy products for much less. The chocolate is not the best and the prices are crazy for that as well.They have the larger chocolate raisins,,i didn't ask the price prior ,so I was fooled,14 raisins for 12 dollars and change. I guess she gets away with charging such overpriced because it's mainly tourists. read more

Fun and nostalgic merchandise, but completely overpriced. Candy was marked up 50%. The place itself was also cluttered and dusty.

she's been "Robin" kids blind for years, seemingly wrapping up 3 year old Halloween brachs, passing it off as artisanal and charging an arm an a leg. Super rude, abrasive and unpleasant, which is ironic for someone who owns a "sweets" shop. The last straw for us was getting sick from the "fresh fudge". Enough. Give someone else a shot at this location at the heart of tourist central. The reviews are in. read more

They have so many rare candy and you can tell how much the staff understands about candy. Highly recommend

This place is an absolute rip-off. I don't know how they've managed to stay in business with such bloated prices and very rude service. I would recommend Chocolate Springs Cafe in Lenox. They make there chocolate treats in-house, and you leave satisfied, not ripped off. read more

The owner is just rude. I'm shocked kids even enjoy this candy store. I suspect they stay in business because no parent can leave without buying something for their kid no matter how rude the owner is. read more

Had really high expectations for a store like this, but was met with an uncurated jumble. Huge missed opportunity. Everything is stacked up wherever with minimal visual appeal. Shame! Went in intending to buy the place out ... and left emptyhanded! read more

I bought a baseball cap at $30, small container of fudge, large peanut butter cup, 2 pieces of Butter Crunch, and 4-5 pieces of "Zots" candies. The candy was not the best I have ever had (being kind) but what really got me was the price! Just under $100 for those few items? When I was in store, I thought the register read at half the price, but my cc bill came at double the price. I called the store and was told that was there correct price and after adding it all up I still dont see how they got to this total. Incredibly disappointing to pay that much for that size and quality. Stupid me for not asking for the receipt! $20 for a peanut butter cup, $15 foir 2 pieces of mediocre butter crunch and $15 for bad fudge? Not impressed at all. read more

It's wonderful. When I went there the people were extremely friendly and helpful. The food was superb too.

This place had a lot of the old candies and goods from when my wife and I were younger. Now why did I give this place a two star. Even though they had a lot of items, however they were very very over priced. I have been to a lot of other similar candy shops with candy from my past and their prices were no where as high in price. Also seemed to have a lot of dust on a lot of the items in the store. I feel with prices this high maybe it should be more up kept at least. Items like the bazooka gum soda looks like it's been there since it was made. It was a nice museum of candy. Funny thing was three people walked in right before us and walked out saying that the prices were high and items were dusty and I still went in anyways to give them a try. Well ended up spending $27 anyways for like some pop rocks which still can be purchased a lots of places, $4 kitkats got 3 of those, a gummy roll and a $6 dollar kidder egg. So I guess I was the sucker. read more

Cute ambience, but the prices are way too high, even for an independent store. I love supporting small businesses, but it has to be reasonable. $7.99 for a box of Pocky (usually $1.99 at the grocery) is just absurd. I expect to pay a premium but this was insulting. read more

The food is SO EXPENSIVE it is like a gold mine you can find the same candy at cvs for less then half the price it is horrible there you should just go to cvs read more

Ridiculously expensive. Things store is a jam packed mess all over the place. Everything is marked up way over the cost in a regular store. It's actually comical that people would pay $6 for a candy bar that is $2 everywhere else. read more

one of my MHS students offered me a chocolate and asked me to give an honest review. I picked the dark chocolate option and throughly enjoyed the creamy inside filling. overall it was a great dessert and highly recommend it to anyone read more

Adorable little candy shoppe! I felt like a kid again. Loved the giant candy canes. The home-made rice crispy treats were absolutely divine. Wish we stocked up on more goodies! read more

I can't leave a ZERO star review so I have to put 1 star.... I have vacationed here multiple times and given this lady several chances to redeem herself. On a recent trip, I went TWICE. With several kids... letting them Go to town on their choices... I am Not one to care much about individual prices, but we took a HUGE offense to commentary we got directly from the owner of the store. When specifically asking for less candy in a few bags... because we had already gotten a couple Of bulk bags that were extremely Heavy handed the owner says the following ... THERE IS ONLY ONE FULL SIZE HANDFUL BECAUSE WE CANT SURVIVE DURING COVID WITHOUT IT, THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING I'm sorry... it is almost 2022, this store seems to be doing just fine, the owner has a very successful business ripping off every tourist in town... and we hear she closes for a month after the holidays to go to her house in FL. Also, we were there with 5 kids so "thanks for understanding".... Why is it MY JOB to save her from covid? What about my COVID situation and giving her Any business at all? She should be grateful we are in the store buying candy instead of Walgreens 1 block away. We found this comment to be awful, egregious, and completely disgusting because we already had multiple bags in the hands of our kids... so she knew we couldn't cancel our order and walk out. Which is how we felt at the moment. I will Never be going back to this store... and will be telling family and friends that live in the area and in NYC... not to come here as well. My family is in the Candy production and distribution business for 2 generations. We would love to support all independent stores like hers with the way the industry is going, but this lady makes it impossible to do so... Pay your employees more, and stop ripping off tourists and locals... read more

I don't think I've ever experienced a level of crazy like I just did in this store. First, the owner is running around with (what looked like) a bottle of windex and yelling about "FULL COVID PROTOCOLS," demanding that children not touch anything and literally locking the doors to the store (with customers inside) while she does a "FULL SANITIZING." I take COVID very seriously (and my entire family was in masks in the store), but this level of batsh** crazy is like nothing I've seen before. Second, the prices are insane, especially when almost all of the candy we purchased was stale and inedible. I get that you can charge more in a touristy area, but at least don't sell crap if you're going to charge absurd prices. Seriously people -- read the other reviews. Owners/stores like this don't deserve your money. read more

I have been living in the Berkshires for close to 20 years now. I have shopped in Robin's on and off during this time over the years. The prices have always been a bit higher than what you would pay somewhere else but i was always ok with that to a certain extent because you could expect that in downtown GB. Even 10 years ago you would. But these current prices are so insultingly high that I can honestly say I am never going in this store again. I left there earlier feeling like such crap after getting ripped off so badly on this overpriced candy. I am mad at myself for not keeping a running tally of what the kids were grabbing, but I had no expectation whatsoever that 6 items were going to cost me $70!!! I honestly thought I put $25 of merchandise on the counter. And in reality, I did. Afterwards, looking up some of these items at that the kids had picked out I realize after that Robin has marked these up 3x what other stores are charging. The only positive that I will say at this point is the staff is friendly and attentive. But wow. Like some of the other reviews have mentioned... she is WAY too aggressive with the COVID protocols. You walk in with a mask an you are immediately confronted with the command to sanitize and try not to touch anything at all in the store and make sure everything goes in these blue buckets, etc. We are a family that takes all of the necessary COVID protocols and does all of the right things...but this is neurotic behavior. I'm sorry but you run a business that sells candy to children and you honestly expect them to come in and keep their hands to themselves and not touch anything? Besides, isn't it a known thing at this point that COVID itself doesn't survive long on surfaces? So instead of kids touching an item here or there, everyone is supposed to walk around with these blue buckets that every previous customer had touched as well. Seems like that defeats the purpose of the initial intention. Anyway, rant over. I just really hate the feeling of being ripped off. read more

I'm going to echo many, many other reviews here and say how shocked I was by the prices. I wanted a small amount of licorice, and was told there is a minimum of .3 pounds. By the time we were paying at the register the total was almost $10 for 1/2 lb of licorice. And let me tell you, 1/2 lb was about 20 pieces (not a lot) My mother wanted a piece of chocolate, but when she was told it would be almost $5 for one piece, she decided against it. This place is absolutely a rip-off for the outrageous prices. read more

I'm sad to say this, because the store is crammed with amazing items but the prices have veered into the truly absurd. I ordered a half pound of licorice. She asked me if it was ok to go "a little over". I replied ok, thinking "a little over" meant a tenth of a pound, maybe. She put over a pound of licorice in my bag and charged me $23. Not ok! I picked out a smallish shopping bag of treats which rang up at $140. NEVER AGAIN. You are robbing people. read more

sure the selection is great but omfg I just paid over $30 for a bag of candy. Wtf. I was so shocked at the price at check out that I almost walked out - but the young girl there said that the prices were listed, however there was no pricing anywhere to be found. I tried to tell myself to remain calm "you're on vacation". However I feel so disgusted and straight up SCAMMED. Coming from NYC a candy shop like this is a dime a dozen. Shame on you Robins Candy shop! Ps. Your green froggy gummies are stale! read more

BEYOND expensive!! Might as well just light your money on fire. $120 for two boxes of mediocre (at best) chocolate?!?

The candy is great and I love the art on the ceiling ! Also the workers are extremely friendly and helpful . We had such a fun time there!

Ridiculously overpriced, service is lacking (I am being kind) and I can't see how they remain open if not for the tourists who REALLY want to part with a ton of cash (and get nothing in return). Go to CVS or the grocery store for run-of-the-mill candy, or head just a bit north and go to Catherine's Chocolates. read more

We were in town for the day and decided to check this place out after lunch at fiesta (amazing btw), it was SO cute, who doesn't love a candy store! They had tons of options, cool old school stuff which are nostalgic (and before my time but still awesome lol). We loved the Harry Potter section and regret not grabbing some butter beer. They had anything from fruity and sour to oversized peanut butter cups and turtles. We left with about $45 in jelly belly's which is expensive but not something we do often so NO shame. Would also like to point out the employee behind the counter gave a little speech upon entering with store rules and how to stay safe during our visit (use the hand sanitizer, don't reach into candy jars etc) which was cool since were all trying to adapt to the current norm during the pandemic. Would revisit. read more

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Very sad- it clear that she needs to learn how inventory should work- it would help her sales so she could be reasonable with pricing. Nobody from this town recommends her, her business is a heartbreaker to the local children here. She showed up here one day and just embarrassed herself. Those of us who grew up here recommend grabbing candy at CVS and heading to the park or head to Chocolate Springs in Lenox- at least they make everything fresh and the quality is up to par. Tourists are used to higher prices while vacationing but if you read the google reviews, even they are complaining. To make things worse, for the amount of money she's taking, her staff should be paid more than minimum wage and just slightly over if they have a degree...to work in a job with zero growth opportunity?!?!?!!!! How does this help anyone other than Robyn?!!!! Shame on her. read more

I was there this afternoon May 7 th. My friend and I decided to go for a ride 3 hours later we found ur self's in Great Barrington, Mass. Looking for lunch we happened to park in grin on Robin' s Candy I had or always have a sweet tooth. So we go into the store at first I loved it but after seeing the prices I was in shock but I still wanted something but when I got to the car I wanted to sink my teeth into a nice piece of chocolate after all I think I paid like $3 for each piece. My receipt didn't say how much each was but for 3 pieces of chocolate candy and about a 1/4 pound of jelly belly jellybeans it came too $16.50. I'm not one to sample stuff in stores but I really wish I had the jelly beans were rock hard couldn't even chew them. The chocolate were suppose to be vanilla, cream but the cream inside the chocolate was so hard I ended up throwing everything away including the jelly bellies. Don't go to trust me that was a Money . read more

This is literally the best candy store on the planet. When you initially walk in it's a bit cramped and seems not that big, but you will soon realize the amount of candy and variety is insane. I'm talking different candy from all over the world you'd never get without traveling to those countries. Also a lot of stuff you haven't seen since you were kid. Now about the owner. She clearly loves candy, I mean LOVES CANDY! Has crazy knowledge around all candy, she's super nice and helpful, just really great person. PS. You also get a toothbrush with every purchase. read more

So overpriced the owner must have been able to retire three times by now. Highway robbery! Don't bring your kids here!

Beware, that they do not have price tags. And can be quite pricey, especially the chocolates. Just average candy for a stupid price

I'm glad I read other reviews before leaving mine because I was wondering if maybe I just caught the store on an "off" day and should give them the benefit of the doubt. But after reading other reviews, I feel comfortable sharing my experience shopping here yesterday with my niece. The store does have a variety of candy, from chocolates to gummy bears and old school candy. There are so many fun things to look at in the store, which is why I will give it a rating at all. But the overall experience here was disappointing. We were shopping for gifts and when placing our order for multiple varieties of the bulk candy, the woman behind the counter put all the varieties together in one ziploc bag. So the gummy bears for my niece's boyfriend were mixed in with the edible legos for our nephew, in the same bag with other bulk candy. My niece was apprehensive about asking her to separate them, mostly because the woman was unapproachable and my niece felt intimidated. Needless to say, my niece did ask the saleswoman for an empty ziploc so she could separate them herself, which was provided. I feel that good customer service would have included the salesperson starting the order over again and not having the customer correct their mistake. After my niece placed her order for chocolates, I stepped up to the counter to place my order for my selections. Again the woman was putting them all in the same box, and I had to tell her again that our orders were separate. The customer service was definitely lacking and we felt rushed. Like I said, it is a store with alot of fun things to look at, but we felt pressured to make our selections and cash out. We spent $66 on a handful of chocolates and some bulk candy. But, I probably would have selected a few more items to purchase had I not felt so pressured to cash out. It was just an odd experience overall with very poor customer service. The one other thing that I did not find appropriate was seeing political items for sale in the candy store. There were some Biden 2024 stickers and toilet paper with Donald Trumps face on it. I found that to be distasteful to place political items in a retail space but maybe that's just me. But based on our experience, we will not be back. read more

I would give 0 stars if that was possible. I had a truly annoying experience here... Most of my annoyance stems from the lunatic, rude owner. She bombards customers with outdated & ridiculous Covid protocols. I am fine with wearing my mask, (as I did with every other store on the strip,) but I can still hear her screeching voice in my ear yelling at every entering customer to "not touch anything" & "grab a bucket, we are practicing high protocol, oh & please don't touch anything!". I'm sorry, but you should not own a candy store & expect kids not to touch a single item, let alone expect customers to shop & be able to pick up what they are interested in purchasing. On top of that the prices are absolutely absurd, and if you are purchasing any candy that is sold by weight... be prepared for her to grab the most ridiculous sized handful possible & belittle you that they don't sell in smaller sizes. Honestly, I wish I never came in here. read more

An absolute RIP-OFF! Go in to admire the candy and giggle at the humor of the shop, but don't even think of buying anything. I loved this place so much, until I got to the cash register and was stunned at the cost. I love supporting small businesses, but I seriously felt conned - especially since prices aren't always shown and you can't see what she's doing behind the counter (I asked for a small piece of fudge and got a brick, would never have wanted so much!). And, to make matters worse, the chocolate is awful (especially the fudge, so bad!) and I left spending $65 for just a couple things. Still can't believe it and it soured my trip to this quaint town. Shame on Robin for scamming people with a candy store. Beware! read more

Came here only for licorice, which I must say they have a good selection of. The only thing that left me a sour taste was the fact I was charged $18 for a small bag of string lace licorice. $18!!! I couldn't believe it. When I asked how much per pound, she said it was $19 something per pound. There is no way my bag was almost a pound, as I live in NYC and buy this stuff ALL the time (several times a week). My bag was about a half pound or a little more. I felt I was ripped off because it was obvious my friends and I were tourists. Besides that, it's a cute shop with good selection. read more

Great selection of candy including a lot of hard to find items from Europe. Loved that they had NECCO candies from the last production run at the original Boston factory. Yeah the prices are a little high, but this isn't the kind of place you go to grab a Snickers. Robin has curated her store to perfection, she knows her stuff and will gladly educate you. read more