I LOVE SUGAR (Panama City Beach) — Attraction in Panama City Beach

“I Love Sugar” is less a candy store and more a psychological experiment in how fast you’ll hemorrhage money when blinded by neon lights and childhood nostalgia. And listen, I do love sugar. But what I don’t love is dropping a small car payment on two bags of Sour Patch Kids and regret.

Here’s the con: they sell candy by the pound, but there are no visible scales. None. Nada. You’re just filling bags like an overexcited raccoon at a Skittles buffet, completely unaware that you’ve just assembled a $47 trail mix of processed corn syrup and crushed dreams. By the time you hit the register, it’s already too late. You’re pot committed. You’re not putting anything back. You’re just nodding like a broken man and handing over your card while a teenager behind the counter silently judges your life choices.

The place is bright, chaotic, and wall-to-wall sugar-fueled insanity. If Las Vegas and a candy commercial had a baby and raised it on TikTok, this would be the result. There’s even a gummy bear the size of a toddler and a marshmallow wall that probably cost more than my monthly mortgage. Impressive? Sure. Ethical? Less so.

I expected overpriced. It’s a tourist trap, that’s part of the charm. But when your business model involves intentionally hiding the price impact of your product, that’s not clever. That’s predatory. You’re not a candy store, you’re a sugar-scented heist.

Two stars for the selection, because yes, it is massive. But next time I want to be financially devastated in a brightly lit environment, I’ll go back to Dave & Buster’s and lose money like...

We had the worst experience in this store. There was this employee there (She had black hair, black glasses, a pink hoodie, and black leggings on.) We were by the candy dispensers and we were just trying to figure out how to dispense the candy in it. She was yelling at us in front of everybody telling us to stop with an attitude. I believe she should've walked up to us and told us to stop, respectfully. After that we went to the counter to talk to the manager about it, i was with my sister at the counter, my brother, and my daughter were on the other side and they were looking at her, she was looking at me and my sister and she was laughing as if it were funny This was very unpleasant. I want someone who is above the manager to contact me.

La peor experiencia de nuestras vidas. Un empleados muy irrespetuoso y sin ningunos modales de como tratar a los clientes. Esperamos que no vuelva a suceder con...

A super fun store for kids to get candy and there is so much variety. And that's where my excitement ends. There were signs posted everywhere that said $6.98 for a 1/2 lb of candy, but all the bags provided were pretty big..at least 3 lbs, maybe even 4 lbs. I have 4 kids and they each grabbed a bag. At a certain point I started looking for a scale to weigh the candy, because I wasn't exactly sure what a 1/2 lb was (much less a kid). No scales anywhere except behind the registers. The kids brought their bags to the register (none of them even close to full), one of them looking like a 1/2 lb to me, but the grand total was $120!!! And you really can't put back unpackaged candy. We should have just left all the candy at the store and left. At least provide the right sized bags or a scale. I mean, who do you think goes to a candy store? Wow, so not family friendly. The kids even felt...