A sweet shop on Victoria Avenue in Whanganui that the website says has been selling sweets for over 85 years, and describes as one of New Zealand's oldest. The Thistle Sweet Shop is at 136 Victoria Avenue, Aberfeldy. The website says it makes home-made fudge, stocks leading brand sweets, and offers gift baskets, which can be built to a custom request. It is a wholesale and retail supplier of confectionery, and also sells baking and icing materials and hires out baking and cake trays. The website says it delivers anywhere in New Zealand. The phone number is 06 345 0143.
Customers mention fudge most often, followed by old-school sweets, cake-making products and chocolates. One reviewer says the shop has great customer service, a good range of lollies and chocolates, and quality that is always good, and calls it the best lolly shop in town. Another first visited on a family holiday in the 1980s, and found the selection just as good on a return visit more than thirty years later.