How Much Can Choosing The Right Acrylic Bins Impact Your Candy Shop’s Sales?

When opening a candy store, choosing the right display containers is more important than you might think. After all, acrylic bins are not just simple containers for holding candies; they are also decorative elements that attract customers and protect the candies. So, while you are getting ready to start your candy store project, do you know how to select acrylic bins for your candies? What are the characteristics of different types of acrylic bins? What are the selection secrets for each type? Follow our article to learn more.

Why did you choose acrylic bins?

1. Adapt to the characteristics of candies to avoid product loss

Candies vary greatly in texture and shape. Choosing the wrong box can easily lead to loss. For example, M&M beans and hard candies have regular shapes and are relatively hard, which are suitable for acrylic tubes and gravity boxes. They are easy to take and place without being damaged and do not easily get damp. Soft candies and nougat candies have soft and sticky textures and are prone to sticking together and getting damp. Therefore, acrylic boxes with sealed covers or sealed round cans must be used to isolate dust and moisture, ensuring the taste.

2. Enhance display effect to stimulate customers’ desire to purchase

When customers enter the store, the first thing they see is the display appearance. Round and colorful candy beans, created with vertical acrylic tubes to form a candy wall, with colors spreading layer by layer, have a visually stunning effect and can easily become the highlight of the store; candies in various flavors in bulk form can be placed in layered flip-top boxes for classification, making the types clear at a glance, and making it easier for customers to choose.

3. Easily match with store decoration

The display box is also a part of the store’s decoration. If you want to attract more customers to take photos, you can decorate it with acrylic tubes to create a candy wall or colorful combination boxes; if you want to display the store’s candy products as much as possible, you can choose the flat style of retail acrylic boxes.

By matching the display box according to the store’s positioning and decoration style, it can make the overall visual coordination and unity, form a unique store characteristic, deepen the customer impression, and also accumulate repeat customers.

What types of acrylic bins are there? How to choose them?

1. Candy Wall Exclusive: Top acrylic tube decoration + Gravity box combination

Just like the rainbow candy walls you often see in MM Candy stores, this “acrylic tube + gravity box” combination is the perfect tool for creating a popular photo spot.

• Feature: Transparent acrylic tubes are vertically arranged. After being filled with different colored candy beans, they cover the entire wall like a rainbow, creating a strong visual impact. The gravity box below can automatically replenish the materials, allowing customers to take them and the candies will slide down the tubes, which is both convenient and doesn’t waste anything.

• Advantages: The display effect is amazing, making it an easy-to-visit attraction for the store; The gravity box design can reduce the frequency of manual replenishment, making it suitable for stores with high customer traffic.

2. For Layered Shelving Use: Flip-Lid Layered Acrylic Boxes

Shelving is a common display method in candy stores, and choosing the right acrylic boxes for your store will solve a major problem in your display. Take a look at our reference picture, which uses this flip-lid layered acrylic box, which is the most common style in candy stores.

• Features: Square and transparent boxes with a flip lid design, which can be directly placed on the shelves without taking up extra space. Each box has an independent partition, allowing for clear distinction of different flavors of gummy candies and hard candies. Some boxes are even designed with built-in candy scoops, significantly saving space in the display area and enhancing convenience.

• Advantages: Affordable price, versatile applicability, can hold almost all candies; The flip lid design prevents dust and is convenient for customers to take; When stacked, they are neatly arranged, making the store look neat and uniform.

3. Bulk and Loose Packaging Use: Round Acrylic Sealed Containers

Bulk candies are a major product category in candy stores. This round acrylic container is very suitable for holding bulk freeze-dried candies, toffees, gummies, or specialty snacks.

• Feature: The cylindrical transparent container has a sealed lid and can be paired with a tray at the bottom, or placed directly on the tabletop. Some stores will embed the container in the wall to create an “ice cream blind box wall”, allowing customers to visually see the candies inside.

• Advantages: Good sealing performance, preventing candies from getting damp and soft; The round container has no edges, making it softer to place and more convenient for customers to select from various angles; Versatile, can be placed on the tabletop or on the shelves.

If your candies are large in size, you might also consider this type of open acrylic bins with a large diameter.

They are perfect for use in the self-selected candy area, to hold the mixed candies that require customers to scoop with a spoon.

• Feature: The large opening design, with a large diameter and sufficient capacity, allows for the storage of a large quantity of candies at once. It is also convenient for customers to directly use a spoon to take, without the need to frequently open and close the lid.

• Advantages: Easy to take, good customer experience; The large diameter design enables the candies to be fully displayed, with a larger capacity. Through the transparent acrylic bins, the display of the candies looks particularly attractive.

4. Special Theme Area: Wooden Barrel + Acrylic Cover Combination

The combination of a wooden barrel and an acrylic cover is suitable for candy stores with a retro or pastoral style. It is ideal for displaying large-sized chocolate beans or special candies.

• Feature: Using a wooden barrel as the container and adding a hemispherical acrylic transparent cover on top. This not only prevents dust but also allows you to see the candies inside through the cover, creating a retro atmosphere.

• Advantages: The unique design can blend seamlessly with the store’s style and is unlikely to be copied by other stores; The wooden barrel has a large capacity, making it suitable for holding large-sized, moisture-resistant candies.

5. Customized Styles

The customized acrylic boxes are different from the ready-made general models available on the market. They can be completely tailored to the actual situation of the store. The size can be freely customized. The gaps between shelves, the empty spaces on the walls, and the irregular counter surfaces can all be precisely matched with the size, and there will be no problem of the boxes being too large to fit or too small to leave empty spaces.

What are the distinctive features of acrylic as a material for the container of candies?

When you choose transparent containers for your store, you will find that bins for both candies and other foods are mostly made of acrylic. What is acrylic? And what makes it superior compared to other materials?

The material known as PMMA, or acrylic, is a hard, transparent plastic. It is the most commonly used raw material for candy display boxes. The transparent candy boxes we see every day, sugar bean round tubes, and shelf storage bins are all made of it. It is not glass nor ordinary soft plastic. When comparing other materials, glass is too heavy and fragile, plastic is prone to deformation and yellowing, and iron sheets are prone to rusting. None of these are suitable for long-term display in stores for retail purposes.

Acrylic, on the other hand, combines transparency, hardness, and cost-effectiveness. It is specifically selected for the snack-selling scenario.

In addition, it also has the following core advantages:

• High transparency, with excellent display effect
• Lightweight and sturdy, not prone to damage
• Waterproof and resistant to corrosion, suitable for storing candies
• Strong plasticity, with various styles
• Long-lasting durability, with low long-term usage cost