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Guys and girls, tonight at 5 pm is the officially last time that you can break up with your significant other. \u00a0Anything later than that is considered a break in protocol.<\/p>\n
The one consistent thing at every Valentines in retail is Conversation Hearts. \u00a0Year after year after year, it is the #1 requested item. \u00a0 Necco, the main manufacturer, is considered the oldest continuously operating candy company in the United States<\/a>, and produces a whopping 100,000 pounds a DAY of Conversation hearts from mid-February through January of the following year in preparation for V-Day. \u00a0That’s a lot of BFF, I LOVE YOU, and BE MINE.<\/p>\n The other consistent thing at every Valentines is that we will in fact RUN OUT of Conversation Hearts before the 14th, and there will be at least 50-100 customers asking for them after we run out. \u00a0People, SHOP EARLY. \u00a0We probably won’t have your Snickers on October 31st at 5 pm either. \u00a0 The same people who complain we’re out are the same ones who say “Valentines already?” when we start setting it after New Years.<\/p>\n Oh and what does NECCO stand for? \u00a0 Come on, you should know that one. \u00a0 If not, the answer is here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n And if you want to know even more about Conversation Hearts, you can go\u00a0here<\/a> or here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guys and girls, tonight at 5 pm is the officially last time that you can break up with your significant other. \u00a0Anything later than that is considered a break in protocol. The one consistent thing at every Valentines in retail is Conversation Hearts. \u00a0Year after year after year, it is the #1 requested item. \u00a0 Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-trends"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}