Q&A for How to Sell Candy in School

You can have as many employees as you want. You give them some candy to sell, then at the end of the day they can keep some of the profit. You can choose the amount they keep. You could also just give them some free candy.

This is the case at my school. I started off by telling my friends that I was going to start selling candy, and I asked them to tell their friends but to make sure the teachers didn't know about my small business. I would make money and candy transactions during lunch or passing periods from class to class. Just do your best to keep your activities hidden from the teachers.

Pretty much. Start, though, by telling your friends. Gauge the interest from there. If you sell for long enough, word of mouth will do a lot of advertising for you.

You could ask someone who works at your school, like your teacher or your principal. Also, you could probably find out the rules if your school gives you a student handbook, or you could check your school’s website or the district rules online.

You can't make someone like something that they don't like. You can just experiment with different candy types and see which one is the most popular.

Just get enough that you can profit off of it, and make sure it's something the people want.

You should charge more than the unit price if you want to make a profit. If the unit cost to you is $.05, try charging $.15. If Twizzlers are a candy many like, raise the price a little higher.

Increase the price about 1/3 over what you paid for it, offering discounts for larger purchases.

At first, only spend a few dollars to buy candy to see what people like. Build a demand for the candy at school. After you find that everyone wants candy, tell them to bring money the next day and buy a box of candy.

Reestablish your reputation by selling at a lower price, and raise your prices to normal once your level of business is restored.

Deny everything. Don't bring all of your product to school. Keep it at home or in another place other than your locker. This way you won't have a huge stash that can be used as evidence against you.

If you eat your own merchandise, you will have less to sell. Even if you only eat one or two, it can add up to a lot of lost money.

You can, but you will lose money. People can't buy your candy if you've already eaten it.

Make sure you get the payment when you're giving them the candy. Don't let anybody scam you by saying they'll pay later. If this already happened, you learned a valuable lesson!

Don't expect too much at the beginning. You'd maybe earn $20 USD in a week, at the start. But, if you do work hard enough and build a reputation, then you could make more.

If you want to have earnings, I suggest you open an account in the bank for safety purposes. While you are at school, you can use a small safe in your locker or ask the school principal if you can use the schools safe until the end of the day.

Most of the time, if customers are hungry enough, they will ask you what you have or how much the product is. You can communicate with notes or via other students if you don't sit near each other. Watch out for teachers. If your teacher is relatively cool, you might be able to bribe him/her to look the other way with a couple of candy bars.

You can do it anytime, but it might not work so well right after Halloween.

That happened to me and what I did is find who is telling and talk to them and bribe them.

You will have to overcome your fears or post on social media or have others tell people that you are selling.

You stop. Breaking the rules twice will cost you much more than anything you might gain from selling candy.

Sell your candy near -- but not on -- school grounds. Ask your customers to tell others where to find you.

Put it in in a backpack or lunch box. Put drinks in another lunchbox with ice packs.

You can pass people notes if you don't want to do that. Either that, or you can get your friends to help you. They can go with you or they can tell them.

You can sell different types of candy that a lot of people like so that they really want the candy or ships you are selling and bring the money. Another way is to trade the candy for something else and sell what you trade for money.

Start sitting at each table each day and sell it to the people at the table.

There are a few options. You could owe them, "Sorry! I don't have any change on me right now, do you mind if I give you back some change later?". Or, you could ask friends to give you change in exchange for an IOU, meaning you'll pay them back later.