Sky Bars in Market Basket!

Hello Sky Bar afficcionados. It has been a while, as they say. Our last newsletter was in March, 2020. SOOO much has happened since then. Of course the pandemic impacted everyone's life, for longer than we could ever have imagined. At Sky Bar we just kept plugging away, learning, growing and perfecting. By the start of 2021, we were ready to ship to other retailers with our new wholesale license. We shipped to independent "mom and pop" stores like our own Duck Soup (our sister company) for two reasons: one was because we wanted them to be able to sell sky bars before we went into the supermarkets and two, because we were not able to make enough to service a large organization.

The above picture is a display at Market Basket. We made it into Market Basket a few weeks ago. But what a journey it has been! I'm sure the world over we all have our own pandemic stories. It's something we will remember our whole lives.

At Sky Bar, manufacturing stayed open, but most of our employees chose to stay home to be safe. We continued with a skeleton crew of college kids, home for lock down. This meant that when lock down was over we experienced a 100% turnover of staff and the new folks all had to be trained. During lock down a couple of times we had visits from sky bar fans who traveled extraordinary distances to see us and buy sky bars. The retail section of the sky bar facility was shut for so long that when it opened, we decided to knock the wall through and connect it to Duck Soup, our other store.

We expanded it from a nostalgia candy store by adding Hallmark cards, and most recently, board games. Like so many other things, chocolate for making sky bars was in short supply due to the global supply chain disruption. However, although we could not be 100% sure we would always be able to get it when we needed it, we never ran out. From the start, the plan had been to get sky bars back into Market Basket, where you used to buy them. Recently, we made it and also secured a national distributor with refrigerated trucks that should help us to ship in the heat of the summer. We still sell individual bars in our retail store Duck Soup, and we sell boxes of 24 online. We now have over 200 independent retail stores selling sky bars. Some of those customers also sell online, including on Amazon. See if there is a candy store selling sky bars near you:

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Each and every sky bar that you see for sale is made in our facility by this core team of amazing chocolatiers:

Meet Zhane', Felicia, Chris and Izzy

Here are Frank and Zhane' proudly loading the truck for our first shipment to Market Basket.

We recently heard from the grandson of Mary Elliott from Quincy, MA who actually NAMED the sky bar! She mailed in her name idea to NECCO in a naming contest and won $50. He has the letter!

Check out

The Last Drive In with Joe Bob Briggs on the Shudder Channel

They featured sky bars throughout an entire episode and even made a sky bar costume!

We love our independent candy stores.

You can find them on our website store locator. If we aren't in your favorite candy store, ask them to call or email us. Also, if you send us a photo of sky bars in your local candy store, we will put it on our website.