JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Once again, a Jacksonville candy shop has been recognized as one of the nation\u2019s best.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville\u2019s Sweet Pete\u2019s Candy was ranked No. 6 in USA Today\u2019s 2026 10Best readers\u2019 poll<\/a>. <\/p>\n Last year<\/a>, Sweet Pete\u2019s was No. 8 on the list, and was No. 3<\/a> the year before.<\/p>\n USA TODAY recognizes the shop for Pete\u2019s Famous Sea Salt Caramels, caramel chocolate apples, and packaged candy.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n The shop features gluten-free, dairy-free, and nut-free options.<\/p>\n It\u2019s located at 400 N. Hogan Street and is open every day except Monday.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Once again, a Jacksonville candy shop has been recognized as one of the nation\u2019s best.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,117809,117810,117808,347,28,348,116,351,118,117,349,350,7424,117807,117806,346,345],"class_list":["post-321930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-best-candy-stores-in-america","tag-best-candy-stores-in-jacksonville","tag-candy-stores-in-jacksonville","tag-cbs47","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-sweet-petes","tag-sweete-petes-candy","tag-usa-today-best-candy-store","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}