I pulled off a two-lane Nebraska highway because a low warehouse with a big parking lot looked like it might sell coffee. What I found instead was a room the size of a grocery store, smelling like warm cocoa, with barrels of saltwater taffy and a window looking straight into a working chocolate line.
Somewhere between the free Kool-Aid bar and a wall of glass soda bottles, a quick stretch-your-legs stop turned into an hour of wandering. If you have driven between the state’s two biggest cities and never turned in, you have been missing a chocolate operation that makes thousands of pounds of candy a day.
A Warehouse on South Baker Street in Greenwood
From the road it reads industrial: a long, low building with loading-dock bones, a sprawling lot, and grain-country flatness stretching out behind it. Nothing about the exterior suggests 3,000 different items inside.
Greenwood sits in Cass County, right along the Omaha-to-Lincoln corridor on US Highway 6, which means half the state has driven within a mile of the place without stopping…