A bakery is an establishment or shop that produces and sells food items based on flour and baked in ovens A confectionery is a place that sells sweets The sweets or candy produced in a sweets¿ shop confectionery is also known as confectionery Bakery and confectionery are both shops that sell food items The main difference between bakery and confectionery is that a bakery is a place where baked food items are sold whereas confectionery is a place where sweet food items are sold Not all products in the bakery are sweet Similarly, not all the sweets in the confectionery are baked.