The grocery store in the town where I lived before retiring would mark their Claxton fruitcakes way down after Christmas, so I’d buy them out each year.
I don’t know why fruitcake has such a bad rep. I’ve loved it since I was a kid. Back then we’d get several as gifts every year, and they’d get eaten, not regifted.
Mom use to make fruitcake. I remember her buying those candied citrus thingies for them. (I like fruitcake pretty well.)