The Biggest Winner in the History of Skidmore

That may be a gross exaggeration, but we do have a winner! The Skidmore Shop's Halloween candy-jar-guessing-game-o-rama (not the official title, but it does have a ring to it) is over, and it was a close one! The official count was 448 pieces of candy, and the closest you seasoned professional estimators came was 437. Incidentally, two of you guessed that number, but only one of you claimed the title of Best Quantity Guesser in category of Seasonal Confections. And, I'm sure you all saw this coming, Katherine Garcia is our winner! Way to go, Katherine! I was betting on you all along. Now Bob Carlton owes me nachos.

Everybody have a happy and safe Halloween from your friends at the Skidmore Shop!

Halloween stories and spiders at The Skidmore Shop

The Greenberg Childcare kids stopped in at The Skidmore Shop to hear Samantha and Shawn tell a scary Halloween story and make pipe cleaner spiders. Possibly the best pipe cleaner spiders I've ever seen.

All of this could be yours!

It's raffle time at the Skidmore Shop, which is perfect for those of you freaking out because you don't know what to put under your best friend's Halloween tree. From now (presuming "now" is before Halloween) until 3:30pm on October 31, 2008, the Skidmore Shop will holding a contest for your guessing pleasure at the cash register. You will see a pumpkin-shaped jar full of the stuff dentists love and it's your job to guess just how many items that jar contains. The winner receives not only that jar of sugary goodness, but a TWENTY DOLLAR GIFT COUPON towards any of our trade books. The trade books are the ones that aren't text books. You know, the stuff you want to read. You can't win unless you enter, so get to gettin'!

Even if you don't win, now is the perfect time to pick up a groovy ghoul or a funky Frankenstein (see what I did there? Alliteration!) to jazz up your dorm room or give to your trick-or-treating partner. All Halloween gift items are 25% off! This excludes items that are already on clearance, candy, and books. We're all fighting over the fluffy green dude hanging out by the MYSTERY CANDY JAR so you'd better act fast! He is cool.

Stay sweet, Skidmore.

Most students, staff, and faculty at Skidmore have taken note of The Skidmore Shop's candy selection. Whether your searching for a post-class pick-me-up or just need a breath freshener after a basket of hot wings at the Spa, we do our best to keep you covered. But let's say, for instance, you go looking for Chocolate Necco Wafers. Something inside you is screaming "Give me a chalky chocolate disc! Give me mysterious white powder on my fingers!" You wish you could stay on campus and still find confectionary satisfaction. Well, there's hope.

Did you know that the kinds of candy we stock are completely controlled by you? Trust me, while there are some of us at the Shop who could easily scarf down a box of Good 'n Plenty, there are also those of us who are bewildered by black licorice and don't understand the merits of a salty, almost numbing candy. We have it because you want it. So next time you feel dissatisfied with what we're offering you, speak up. Granted, just because you want Garfield's Choco-Bites doesn't mean we'll get them, but you won't know until you ask! I was going to use the idiom about the squeaky wheel and the grease, but something about greasy wheels kills my appetite.

Your precious ginger ale is here

So we were lurking around the internet recently and came across a message board that mentioned that the good people of Skidmore College wanted ginger ale. Well we at The Skidmore Shop have responded and we now have ginger ale. We even got the good stuff. Schweppes. Yeah, we ain't messing around over here. Okay..maybe just a little.