Walgreens limits Gummy Mango candy sales to one bag per customer

Walgreens is now a candy destination, acknowledgment to TikTok.

The drugstore concatenation said it is ramping up accumulation of Walgreen's Nice! Gummy Mango peelable candy, and limiting online income to 1 container per customer owed to precocious request for nan squishy treats, fed by societal media.

Walgreens Nice! marque Gummy Mango peelable cancy and Gummy Burst Pineapple. Walgreens

Part of nan retailer's lower-priced Nice! location marque of snacks and drinks, nan miniature versions of mango consequence —which sells for $1.99 a container — first appeared successful September 2023 successful 2,500 Walmart stores. 

The thought for nan candy came from a vendor relaying peelable mango trends they were seeing successful Asia, Marty Esarte, vice president of Walgreens' owned brands, said successful an email.

"TikTokers discovered nan candies successful January and earlier we knew it, products were flying disconnected nan shelves," Esarte said.

In 1 video on nan platform, a TikToker describes picking up a container of nan candy astatine a Walgreens aft seeing it "all complete societal media." 

Walgreens is expanding inventory for nan mango-flavored merchandise to 8,000 stores connected May 22. A caller peelable banana gummy will motorboat successful 5,700 stores connected nan aforesaid day, besides trading for $1.99 a bag, nan institution said.