Traditional Sweet Shop - thoughts

[AllTheFloralCurtains]

I'm thinking of opening a sweet shop in my village.
I love the idea of an old fashioned sweet shop, with all the goodies lined up in Bell jars along the shelves.

For those of you who have been somewhere similar, could you tell me how you found the set up? (even better if it was 50 years ago!)

If the sweets are in jars behind the counter (so the customer looks over the counter and chooses their sweets, which are then weighed by the server) - I worry the selection will be hard to see.

But if the jars are laid out in a shop space (so the customer picks their jar/s and brings it to the counter) this seems fiddly and open to breakages, plus the server would be constantly returning the jars.

Like a PP, I was also going to mention Hope & Greenwood, who had a chain of nostalgic sweetie shops. I would suggest searching online for images of their stores.

What would be the plan for the 'off season'? You could offer a cafe with coffees and hot chocolates etc for those brave folk visiting the seaside in the cold!