It smells like gummy bears! Great selection and they provide samples. Also a wonderful selection of chocolate items along with their famous gummy bears. Also have sugar free chocolates and candies. Very friendly staff. Stopped by after seeing billboards from highway.

Mmmmm. My son loved going to pick out what he wanted. The person helping us was VERY patient. I really appreciated that. He had a great time until we had to leave. I got the chocolate covered peanuts for myself and they are delicious!

Great little gem in the area! Their confections are the best. There is a good variety and everything is delicious. Everyone is super friendly and helpful. I stop here every time Im in the area. Its definitely worth the visit.

Amazing selection of locally-made candy. Famous for their gummy bears. Huge variety of jelly beans. Luscious chocolates - some favorites include giant chocolate covered raisins, sea-salted chocolate covered toffee, giant malted milk balls, and dark chocolate covered orange peels.

Love this place. Great ice cream sundaes and chocolate covered strawberries. Never tried there chocolates but they look good.

I always come here after I visit family in Wisconsin, its always a tradition in my family. Ive been coming here for a very very long time, since I was a kid. Its always clean, good and hard working staff and prices are very very good. I can come in here and get two pounds of gummies for only $10. Its definitely worth the stop. Albanese has always been my favorite brand of gummy candies, not hard to chew either like other gummies. I highly recommend it to anyone traveling as a pit stop or if youre just in the area.

Amazing place! Friendly staff, fresh chocolates, gummies, nuts and more! Highly recommend!

They have cases of gummy bears for Halloween! 200pcs for $40. I wish I would have known earlier 😕

Its like the candy store in willy Wonka, everything you could want. The dark chocolate is amazing as is anything gummy. Jaw breakers the size of a tennis ball. Love it! The Ladies working there make you feel like its your candy store, dont forget to pay🤟

I have been visiting this store since I was a kid. The gummy bears here are absolutely delicious! Their chocolate is the best I’ve ever had. I almost always buy the chocolate covered raisins, which blow Raisinettes outta the water - Huge juicy raisins, covered with mouth watering chocolate, that is incredibly addictive and hard to put down. 😂😂😂I also highly recommend the chocolate covered coffee beans and chocolate covered orange peel.

Very friendly service period very thorough knowledge here. They know what great selection period theyre very knowledgeable. Of their chocolate products.

Service with a smile. Girls are always great. Ty

And they said you couldnt put a price on happiness,... well they lied. You can get a big bag of defects for like $6. Great deals here.

You can find any candy or nut you want employees very helpful

The dark chocolate pecan patties are to die for!! Love this place!

This was my first visit and I am glad I went. We were greeted by a friendly staff, who were all smiles and ready to serve us. I will be back. They have all the best candy especially all the jelly belly flavors.

Nice selection of candy staff are always pleasant

Great place for chocolate and candy. I love the double dipped peanuts!

I love this place. I typically go to the factory store location, but this location is closer to my home. I purchased several gift baskets filled with Albanese candies to give to my neighbors as Christmas gifts. They have gift baskets at various price points ranging from $20+ - $60. The higher priced baskets come in a decorative tin. I wish I had taken pictures of the baskets, each was very nice looking.Within each basket was an assortment of candies that were packaged and sealed.

Great place! Very helpful and friendly people.

There prices shot way up and the selection went down. All new people and they were nice.

Lovely place. Candy is kinda steeply priced.

Clean, good food, brand new its called Brothers breakfast and lunch

If you love candy 🍬 This is the place. Their chocolate is AMAZING 👍The service is very good 👍

Love, Love, Love Albanese. This is an exceptional Confectionery Business. Well Worth The Drive Down Highway 30 From Far South Suburban Chicago.

Best gummies to have ever exist if you dont like these you are insane

AWESOME, EVERYONE IS VERY NICE, CANDY IS WONDERFUL.THANK FOR HELP ME WITH MU DAUGHTER GRADUATION EVENTS.

Delicious and fresh treats! 😋

They have all the Candy you wanted all kind of Chocolate

Great candy. The turtles are the best I ever had

The candy was wonderful. The staff seemed like they enjoyed working together and were knowledgeable. We will return next trip

Move over Haribo! Albanese isnt kidding when they call themselves Worlds Best. Theyve got a quite a selection! Fine chocolates, assorted nuts/snacks, and gummies of all shapes and sizes. You can even get them by flavor!This location is no where near the experience of the other store front but its a great second choice if you need your Albanese fix!

Wow, what a selection. Such nice staff too!

I need to stay away BUT the candy is so GOOD 💗

Great selection of candies! Gummy bears are the best. Loved their dark chocolate dipped amaretto pecans. Tried their mint melt aways, better than Fannie Mae! Take the kids! ❤️

Very nice and helpful workers.

This is the original location of Albanese Confectionary​. They make the greatest gummy bears.

When ever I go to Merrillville I always have to stop in and get my mint melt aways.

Need to get your sugar fix? Albanese is the place to be! 👍😉

We love Albanese gummies! I have been stopping at the other location for years, whenever Im in the area. But I wont go back to this store anytime soon. The employees are super friendly and the candy assortment is fantastic. But they arent enforcing physical distancing by limiting how many people can be inside at once. Its absolutely impossible to stay 6 feet away from other patrons because everyone is just wandering around at will and there are far too many people inside. Plus, I saw an employee open a bin of unwrapped candy while another patron was standing directly over the bin talking. How many times do you think that happens a day?! [Note they have red tape around the candy bins that presumably measures 6 feet from the employees, but its only two feet away from the candy bins the emplyees have to open and no one is asking people to stay on the otherside of the line anyway]There could be an efficient, organized, enforced system inside the store. They could also offer ordering online or by phone as an option for people who arent comfortable with their set-up (they made a note on Yelp in May that this was available but there is no mention of this on the website and I dont recall a sign outside. Maybe I missed it). For me personally, candy is not worth the risk they are putting patrons (not to mention employees) in.

What an awesome place. You see ..its like going on a mini vacation. Only, instead of leaving with souvenirs... You have two big bags of chocolate covered oreos and satellites wafers 😲😂

Simply smells like confections!

This was a really sweet little candy shop. They were very organized and had a nice selection of sweets. I chose some Carmel marshmallow chocolates.... They were amazing, probably a new favorite of mine. The kids had lots of fun going through and choosing their items as well. Staff was very polite and helpful even to the children which was wonderful. None of the sweets we got were anything less than amazing ❤️ I only wish the shop was a little bigger and maybe had a Ice cream/Shake n malt counter. But maybe thats asking too much 🤣

The sugar free candy is soooooooo yummy!

This is the smaller of the 2 factories, but this is a good store that has made changes inside so it looks more spacious

Best bears out there by far

This is a MUST stop if you are anywhere within 50 miles of this place. You will not be disappointed.

Its always a great time for me and my family to visit there. We never had bad service. Keep up the good work, and having wonderful candy!!!

Very clean and very good. Everyone was very polite and helpful.

Seriously THE best candy/chocolate Ive ever had.....on that note, very dangerous place for a sweet lover! 🤣

Albanese has the best chocolate in the region.

Polite customer service whimsical atmosphere with nostalgic candies and yummy treats

You will find all kinds of fresh candy and nuts.👍

The staff are great very friendly and helpful. And they have what seems like a endless selection of the best candies.

And the customer service was great they did not tell you what the products were nor how they tasted little old give samples and this is a candy shop

Good treats but pricey. Kids loved the selection of Gummies. Worth a stop

I loved the varieties of different candles and they had great prices

Never have I ever😍 I was like a big kid in a candy store! They have all the favorites, spent $80 on candy to bring back home to Minnesota ... DEFINITELY WORTH IT! #bestgummybearsEVER!

Excellent candy and service; a little pricey

Delicious Candy 🍭 store

Dang, this place has lots of things I never saw when I worked in a candy store. I got all small bags and only a few or Id have walked out a much poorer person.

HUGE selection of housemade sweets and treats! Always friendly staff and quality candy.

Wonderful experience. Lots of candies to pick from and helpful employees assisting you. Lighting is great, store is very clean. Highly recommend.

Always a great selection on candies. My only downside was a family of about 7 came in and the store is already small. All an all, great selection!

My wife likes its candies. I dont like candies.

Awsome candy store it brings back a lot of memories when my father use to work at brach candy company in chicago before they closed down you can definitely get your sugar fix their all the employees were ever so nice and very helpful Thank you again Albanese

The most amazing candies

Cutest Easter baskets ever. And all my favorites.

The worst customer service Ive ever experienced. DO NOT GIVE THIS COMPANY YOUR MONEY!I placed an order with this company for a friends birthday. After waiting 9 days, I decided to call the company to see where my order was? They informed me that they made a mistake on their end and would get processing my order right away, but unfortunately, wouldnt be able to mail it for another 4 days, because they need to freeze my order???Because the order wasnt going to show up on time now, they offered to get it faster to me if I wanted to pay more for overnight shipping rather than cover it themselves for their mistake.I did what any reasonable person would do - and canceled my order. At which point, the sales person told me it would be faster to wait for my order to arrive than to get a refund? She said it will take 7-10 business. Interesting how that works out. They take your money, dont deliver a product or service, then hold your money hostage for weeks on end.I will be filing a complaint with the consumer protection office over this nonsense.

The prices are a bit expensive but its worth the extra money because its good quality chocolate 🍫

Youll feel like a kid in a candy store, no matter your age! This is the only Albanese location open for in store shopping at the current time but it was still a blast. Something for everyone! Not just sweet stuff but mixes and nuts, souvenirs and classics of all kinds. Great for the entire family.

If your sweet tooth is calling this is the place to be. Love my child hood favourites like nutchews, violets, praline pecans and more... Yum!

Everything a growing boy and girl needs!😉

Gummy candy galore. Old fashioned candy. Huge jaw beakers that are the size of pool balls. Homemade chocolate candies.

Do not go here everything is delicious and youll spend more than you want to lol😆🤣😆🤣

Chris served us today and his customer service was AMAZING! He was helpful, knowledgeable, friendly and communicative. He was attentive and helped offer tips for our next visit. Great selection of candy, etc. - but the stop was made even better thanks to Chris. Genuine customer service makes all the difference!

We love it my wife and I have made this an annual trip with our grandchildren this was the babys first year to go

With the new remodel and design, we were disappointed to find that a lot of their gummy bear flavors were gone. they only offer a select few jelly belly flavors as well. I asked one of the workers if this was temporary due to the coronavirus or permanent and sadly this is permanent. you can also no longer look through the windows into the factory. which was so fun at Christmas while waiting for photos with Santa. the chocolate fountain is also taken out. so unless your looking for a variety of chocolate or a trip with the kiddos, its just the same as buying in grocery stores now.

Our favorite candy store!! Love the chocolate covered peanuts and raisins.

Hi priced, but some things are worth it.

Great Store!

Fun stop every time we pass by

Actually the selection is better here call me crazy 🤪

Great place to buy nuts and candy. Friendly amd helpful staff. I love Albanese.

Cute store. Fantastically friendly staff. Great and generous sample policy. Wish they had a public restroom.

Great customer service

Yum! Wish they had more selection of the flops, it was all just one flavor.

Clean store and great customer service!

Expected it to be the larger store, a bit East on rt 30. Not as much selection, although the staff is just as helpful.

Outstanding. Ive been here twice this summer and amazed both times. Great for adults or kids to see. Well worth the stop. Definitely will return.

If i could give this place 0 stars I would. I was an employer their.and Im not giving negative review bcus i was fired.i had a doctor appointment and car issues for 3 days.had documents to verify botg.did their protocol to take care of both.was firedDuring my time their i witness alot of bad management.senority disrespectful.machines always breaking and your sent to do meaningless odd jobs.i wouldnt recommend nobody to work at this facility.because they favor their selection of people.also alot of accidents with fork lifters running on peoples feet and broken arms. It was the worse experience of employment that i ever had. I hope they go out of business.with the three sisters taking over for their father it shouldnt be long. They seem to act like and show their incompetence for running a business.also Ive seen candy dropped on the floor and picked up and packaged for sale. No lies all this is true

Great for when you need to pick up some sweets quick. They obviously dont have as many options as the larger factory but they still have a good selection.

Albanese is always great place to visit. The employees are nice and willing to help everyone who comes into the store. Thank you Albanese.

Lots of candy to choose from. Had 5 lbs of goof-up gummies for $6, which is cheap. Prices was not high either. Easy to locate. Well work the pit stop.

Quick and friendly service with a smile. We had a great experience.

Sugar-Free Candy ♡ Love It.

You cant go wrong with any of the chocolate here. Chocolate covered peanuts are always a solid choice.

Too much candy to choose from. You can get lost and go broke in here.

Pricier than expected for a direct-to-consumer outlet, but a great variety of the best gummies in the world

There’s so much to like about Albanese. you can get candy for the children, any special occasion, holidays, or just any regular day that you have the need for something sweet. They also will ship large items and small for you to a loved one in another area at a very low cost. I would recommend