The See's Candies company primarily sells its products at its own stores, along with those of fellow Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, Nebraska Furniture Mart.

See's Candies operates more than 200 stores in the following U.S. states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington.

There are also stores outside the U.S. in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea (taking advantage of the proximity of its main plant to San Francisco International Airport).

[13] Charles Alexander See II (1882–1949) arrived in the United States from Canada in 1921[14] with his wife Florence MacLean Wilson See (1885–1956) and his widowed mother Mary Wiseman See (1854–1939).

The family opened the first See's Candies shop and kitchen at 135 North Western Avenue in Los Angeles in November 1921.

It moved operations to make creams and truffles (60% of product sales)[16] to South San Francisco in order to take advantage of the location's cold weather.

[17] According to the opinion, Laurance worked for See's Candies, Inc. for the entirety of the twenty-one years of his marriage, served as president of its retail subsidiary for most of that time, and "received more than $1,000,000 in salaries from the two corporations".

Wesco Financial Corporation was an 80.1% owned subsidiary of Blue Chip Stamps until its complete merger into Berkshire Hathaway in 2011.

In 1952, Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance spent a half day at the See's Candies store on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, learning to dip chocolates and work the production line, in preparation for the "Job Switching" episode of I Love Lucy.

[32][better source needed] On Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher's 2020 Netflix show, Never Have I Ever, main character Devi Vishwakumar's mother keeps a cabinet of See's Candies as housewarming/hostess gifts.