The Affy Tapple Factory Store — Attraction in Niles Township

To begin with it was hard to ask questions, before making the trip. We called during business hours and had to leave a name, number and message. About two hours later somebody called us back.

We then made the 45 minute trip. It was nothing like we expected, store was very small, low on stock and the lady rather unfriendly. We explained to her that we had purchased several 3 packs of Affy Tapples at our local Jewel and about 50% were rotten. Her response resembled a grunt. We purchased less than we expected to because the expiration dates were only a few days away, and the apples very small. We bought 2 with peanuts, 2 with Halloween sprinkles, and 2 plain - I also got a plain deluxe apple which was more than double the price but appeared to have extra caramel and was large.

At the register we commented that we hoped we would have a better experience, her response a simple well you should.

Now that we have eaten most of our apples I can say I'm extremely disappointed! The peanut apples were fine, but the both the plain and sprinkled apples were soft and mealy inside, nothing crisp at all about them. The caramel was watery and kind of slid off the apple in spots and getting them out of the paper cups was very hard (I always get plain or sprinkled apples and have never had a severe issue like this). And tonight I cut into my large premium apple only to find it brown and rotten inside.

I will not ever make the trip to their store again, and kind if feel like this should be an outlet or factory second store as the apples were definitely not fresh, nor were they cheaper than in the grocery store. I was also shocked that they did not even apologize for the bad apples we had received at Jewel. This experience will likely cause me to think twice about ever purchasing affy Tapples anywhere again!

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