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BY ILANA WILLIAMS
TRY A NEW DRINK Grab a bottle or two of craft soda from distributors such as Dublin and Dad’s Old Fashioned at Stan’s Pop Shop. Fun flavors: • Fru Fru Berry: sugary fruit punch • Toxic Slime: blue raspberry and orange • Bazooka Bubble Gum • Warhead Soda: sour avors include blue raspberry, watermelon and lemon Retros: • Dr. Pepper: with pure cane sugar • Dublin Vintage Cola • Dad’s Old Fashioned Root Beer Summer favorites: • Dublin Tart-n-Sweet Lemonade • Dublin Sweet Peach
Stan’s Pop Shop sells unusual soda avors.
James and Karen Slaton launched Stan’s Pop Shop in Webster in 2021.
Candies available at Stan’s Pop Shop are trendy and nostalgic.
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Stan’s Pop Shop From online to Webster store, couple sells trendy, nostalgic items B efore the idea of Stan’s Pop Shop came to mind, owners Karen and James Slaton drove around Webster and asked about available space for a business. Webster store, the Slatons said. They opened the physical shop in June 2021 and held an appreciation event for the store’s one-year anniversary.
soda in the fall. “We have regulars that’ll come in and stock up for the week,” James said. “We’re building out our collec- tion because we ask the customer what they’re looking for.” Every month, Karen creates a themed mystery box for customers. She includes candies and sodas. In June, she put together a box with items she thought dads would like. She also did a children’s theme, a sour theme and a retro ’80s theme. Stan’s Pop Shop may expand in the near future. If they did, they would include a craft soda bar and a place for customers to hang out. “We’re in the business of not toys and candy, but … of happiness and joy,” James said.
Stan’s Pop Shop 17070 Hwy. 3, Webster 832-905-2922 www.stanspopshop.com
“Webster is a great city,” Karen said. “It still has a little bit of that small-town feel even though it’s part of this huge city.” The name Stan’s Pop Shop was inspired by the store’s o erings: “Stan” is slang for mega fan, while “pop” stands for Funko Pop, soda pop and pop culture, James said. “I go by Stan now,” James said. “I didn’t think about that until people started calling me Stan.” Stan’s Pop Shop has seasonal soda, such as Dublin lemonade, green apple, huckleberry, and pumpkin spice and caramel apple
The couple had always wanted to start a business, but they were unsure of what it would be. Today, Stan’s Pop Shop sells Funko Pop g- ures and special sodas and candies. “I’ve always wanted a candy store,” Karen said. “And he thought about Funko [Pops], ... and we thought the soda would be cool because that’s not something you just nd anywhere.” At rst, in January 2021, the shop was online only, but distributors wanted some of the items they o ered in the shop to be sold in the
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