ATLANTIC CITY (December 20, 2012) – Marshall Retail Group (MRG) announces the opening of its original candy shop trademark, ‘LICK’ inside the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. Building upon the success of two LICK locations on the Las Vegas Strip, MRG is thrilled to introduce the delightful brand to another thriving resort and casino tourist destination.
The aptly named ‘LICK’ poses a fun twist to the old-fashioned, corner store sweet shop by providing customers with a unique interactive experience. LICK customers are encouraged to taste different types of candy and pose for playful snapshots with their colorful, transformed tongues in the shop’s photobooth.
In addition to posing for fun photos to take back home, the shop’s full line of candy is sure to put a smile on any patron’s face. LICK carries an assortment of sweets in all shapes and sizes including custom lollipops and other hard candies, old school favorites, and bulk options. For those shoppers struggling to choose just a few sweets, they can fill bags with a variety of candies from the shops many candy dispensers.
Marshall Retail Group opened the first LICK in December 2010 at The Shoppes at Mandalay Place and a second location in May 2011 at the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino, both on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Marshall Retail Group is America’s largest independent specialty retailer in the casino-resort marketplace. For over fifty years, MRG has been providing resorts and casinos with a portfolio of profitable stores catering to hotel guests, visitors and local residents. The company operates more than 100 stores in major casino-hotels in Las Vegas and Laughlin, Nevada; Tunica, Mississippi; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; the Poconos of Pennsylvania; and Newark and Atlantic City, New Jersey.