Dickinson's Candy — Attraction in Old Orchard Beach

The owner (who is a short bald bearded man) was extremely rude to me and my friend. We walked into the candy store and talked to my family for about 10 minutes before walking around to buy some candy, then we see an arrow above some of the candy you can buy that said “spin me” so we just touched it for a split second then walked away. The owner proceeds to go up to me and my friend with his head down and pointed to the door saying “I’m gonna have you guys leave, the cops are waiting outside” (added that last part maybe to scare us). Naturally we were confused because we didn’t do any harm, so we say “okay” and politely walked out. We waited for my family to walk out the store and told them what happened, my aunt proceeds to ask why he kicked us out and he said “they were touching things not supposed to be touched” then I asked him “what it the arrow thing?” in a respectful tone and he completely ignores me and walks away. So he could’ve told us not to touch that and we would’ve said “sorry sir, won’t happen again” and then we could’ve bought some candy, but he decided to be inconsiderate. I then told my parents and my Dad went to the store and asked why we were kicked out. He told my parents that he “categorized” us (two 18 year old boys, and my friend is African American also) and he then had the audacity to tell my Dad, “they were also resisting to leave the store” which is completely not true, as we walked out of the store right as he told us to leave without any question. My Dad told the owner that this is the last time he will be getting any business from us (I’ve been going to Old Orchard since I was a baby) and he should be ashamed of himself, and he just brushed my Dad off and was insanely rude to my family. This happened last year with two of my other friends because he thought we stole candy, which of course, we did not, all we did was open the container to put the candy in the bags we had so we could buy it later on. This has happened to me two years in a row and we talked to locals in the area and people have heard the same scenarios coming from this guy and his candy store. Never seen someone who categorizes teenagers that harshly to kick them out, and could also even be a racist. I hope this store gets someone else in charge because I used to love it as a kid. The owner should not be treating people like this, and needs to be recognized as a rude and ignorant man for the time being. I encourage anyone who sees this to not give him any business whatsoever, I’m sorry if this has happened to anyone...

We had a terrible experience in this store that I am really confused by. We went in with our three kids a few days ago and had an amazing experience and dropped like $150. We decided to go back. When we went in the first time I helped the two young ones with their candy but they did scoop it and no one said a word. Apparently they are supposed to window shop and point to what they want and then we are supposed to scoop it. We learned that in a way that we should not have had to learn it. Their dad was helping them this time so I could look around. I went to go see how they were doing and I see this man chest puffed up and another associate to his right practically surrounding my family and the guy was looking really aggressive. I heard my fiance say out loud that he didn't understand why he was watching him and then the guy replied in an irritated way that he was watching him because you're not watching your kids and going to touch the candy. My fiance said okay you told them you don't have to keep being on top of us. I tried to interject because I felt like it was a really bad vibe situation going on that I wasn't really understanding. If the kids touched the candy it should just be a conversation and then it should be over. My 7yr old was scooping something with his dad's help and the guy came over and slammed the bin down. I looked at the guy because he was getting more aggressive in his tone repeating to watch the kids and I told him that I was coming over to help but he basically ignored me and then started shouting at us about we need to get out he's calling the police literally making us run out of the store like we were criminals and my kids were all upset about it and didn't understand. I realize now that my fiance didn't didn't realize that he meant they couldn't scoop the candy he thought he was saying they couldn't touch the candy with their hands. This guy is literally the one that rang us out during our first experience in the store and he was nice. I don't know if he was having a bad day or what but I think someone needs to remind him that he's running a candy store (for children) and he's not the bouncer at a gun-toting nightclub. It was really intense and unnecessary. Anyway we took our $200 purchase down the street to the candy shop. They were more than happy to get...

Me and my friend walked into this shop looking for a good experience to get candy. We went into the store and started looking for candy and we came across the jelly bean spin the wheel on the wall. Me and my friend being curious wanted to see if it worked and the moment we did that the owner, a short bald white male came in and kicked us out of the store. We didn’t vandalize or steal, there was no sign that said we couldn’t touch the spin the wheel but we got kicked out for no reason with no warning. Me and my friend went out of the store curious as to why we got kicked out and we talked to his family about it. He then came out and my friends aunt asked why we got kicked out and it was because we were “touching stuff we were not supposed to be touching”. My friends dad then went to confront the owner and he then proceeded to say that they had been having a lot of trouble and that he “categorized us” because apparently teens are known to steal from his store. As an African American, this offended me because I didn’t do anything and I thought it was kind of racist. He also said that we resisted (putting our heads down and leaving the store respectfully). If you came across this, I feel like this needs to be noticed because the ignorance and disrespect shown towards customers is not acceptable. This is just our experience but when we went to the other candy store near by they said there were other instances of this. My friend told me that this happened to him last year...