Loyal customers. Free samples. “It is almost impossible to enter a Hickory Farms store without tasting something,” Forbes magazine once wrote.In its heyday, Hickory Farms had 550 shopping mall-based kiosks in the United States and Canada, but the company now hawks its sausage in newfangled ways.Oh, they still have some holiday season kiosks at select malls, but buying summer sausage from a website bites the big one.