Monday, July 8, 2013

Bacon, Mustaches and Bowties, oh my!!

The latest and the greatest products for our store are Bacon, Mustaches and Bowties.  If you can believe it!
More and more companies are coming out with bacon flavored chocolate, mints and gummies.  Sometimes the bacon is not real bacon but a combination of ingredients that taste like bacon.  
We have been selling alot of bacon candies.  Most people say they are purchasing them for men....who knows??
As for mustaches, we received a call a few weeks ago from a woman who was having a mustache party and wanted to know what we had in the store with that theme.  Aside for mustache shaped mint tins, we didn't have much. 
Now we have StacheToos....removeable mustache tatoos of all shapes and colors (coming soon:  Christmas StachToos).  Look around...you will see mustaches on everything from candy to apparel to tumbler cups and so much more.  One of our staff put in a StacheToo and found that men reacted to her, saying how fun they were but women seemed to ignore the fact that she had this tatoo under her nose!!
As for Bowties, more and more are showing up in the Men's Departments.  They are jaunty and fun...some guys are even making them out of wood!!  At Sweet Tooth we will have musical bowties and ties which you can accessorize a bottle or put on a package or simply give as a gift.  There will Christmas and Chanukah ones as well.
How do these 3 items fit together?  One thought occurs to me:  the gift industry is attempting to find fun things for men or at least about men.  Most shoppers are women and most gift items and even candy appeal to women.....since women are the primary shoppers.  Maybe these 3 trends are going to bring men out into the gift purchasing demographic.  It won't just be Valentine's Day anymore.....in case you didn't know, we see more men the week before Valentine's Day than any other time in the year.
You heard it right here (if you haven't already)....just saying.

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