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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; If you think you smell popcorn while holiday shopping in downtown Wilkes-Barre on Saturday, it&#8217;s not your mind playing tricks on you.</p><p>It&#8217;s the sweet smell of entrepreneurship and a new business.</p><p>The One Stop Pop Shop will open its doors for the first time to customers on what&#8217;s come to be known as Small Business Saturday.</p><p>Setting up shop in one of the storefronts in the Midtown Village &#8212; coincidentally right across the way from the similarly named yet separate Holiday Pop-Up Shops &#8212; owner Ruth Smith said her store will be selling a wide variety of gourmet confections.</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll have gourmet popcorn, lollipops, soda pop,&#8221; Smith said, explaining the origin of the name. &#8220;It goes over a lot of people&#8217;s heads.&#8221;</p><p>Featuring brands like Jelly Belly jellybeans and Hank&#8217;s Gourmet Beverages, Smith is seeking to satisfy the sweet tooth of many a downtown shopper.</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll have about 30 flavors of jelly beans,&#8221; Smith said while showing off the bubble gum and chocolate pudding flavors. &#8220;And if people come in saying, &#8216;Oh, my favorite flavor is whatever,&#8217; we&#8217;ll try to get that, too.&#8221;</p><p>The Wapwallopen woman said the shop will be featuring some sort of deal for the combination of Small Business Saturday and the store&#8217;s grand opening.</p><p>But specifics haven&#8217;t been worked out quite yet, so you&#8217;ll just have to stop by to see for yourself what potential bargains could be had.</p><p>However, there will definitely be free samples of the various flavors of popcorn available to all customers.</p><p>&#8220;People may not have tried all of these flavors,&#8221; said Smith.</p><p>And just to add an extra layer of temptation, she said &#8220;we have an air vent that&#8217;ll be wafting out the smell of the deliciousness.&#8221;</p><p>Unlike the nearby pop-up shops, Smith is planning for her store to be a permanent, year-round fixture on South Main Street.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Ruth Smith is shown filling a candy jar with bubblegum-flavored Jelly Belly jellybeans Friday at her new store in the Midtown Village in downtown Wilkes-Barre. Smith, of Wapwallopen, is opening the One Stop Pop Shop in time for Small Business Saturday. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/web1_TTL112517POP1-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Ruth Smith is shown filling a candy jar with bubblegum-flavored Jelly Belly jellybeans Friday at her new store in the Midtown Village in downtown Wilkes-Barre. Smith, of Wapwallopen, is opening the One Stop Pop Shop in time for Small Business Saturday. </caption0><photoCredit0>Aimee Dilger | Times Leader  </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Patrick Kernan</p><p>pkernan@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Patrick Kernan at 570-991-6386 or on Twitter @PatKernan</p></shirttailMeta></div>

New gourmet candy shop opening in downtown Wilkes-Barre