Articles (little kids, the little kids or both options are fine)
Hello!

"The older customers get as excited as (9) the / zero article / both little kids, as they say the shop reminds them of buying sweets when they were younger."

I've chosen "excited as little kids" and my answer was marked wrong? What is the correct option? Why?
"I live in a relatively small town on the coast, with a sizeable tourist influx in the summer months. I noticed that, although there were any number of standard retail outlets where you could buy the usual chocolate bars and magazines, those old-fashioned sweet shops that used to be on every street corner when I was a child were merely a thing of the past. So I took out a bank loan to cover the initial costs and now I sell delicious sweets with weird-sounding names, like fizzbanger and sherbert explosions. The young ones love the shop for its novelty value, and the older customers get as excited as (9) the / zero article / both little kids, as they say the shop reminds them of buying sweets when they were younger."

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Articles (little kids, the little kids or both options are fine)
Hello!

"The older customers get as excited as (9) the / zero article / both little kids, as they say the shop reminds them of buying sweets when they were younger."

I've chosen "excited as little kids" and my answer was marked wrong? What is the correct option? Why?
"I live in a relatively small town on the coast, with a sizeable tourist influx in the summer months. I noticed that, although there were any number of standard retail outlets where you could buy the usual chocolate bars and magazines, those old-fashioned sweet shops that used to be on every street corner when I was a child were merely a thing of the past. So I took out a bank loan to cover the initial costs and now I sell delicious sweets with weird-sounding names, like fizzbanger and sherbert explosions. The young ones love the shop for its novelty value, and the older customers get as excited as (9) the / zero article / both little kids, as they say the shop reminds them of buying sweets when they were younger."

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In my opinion, both are acceptable, but there is a slight difference in meaning.

"The older customers get as excited as _??_ little kids, as they say the shop reminds them of buying sweets when they were younger."

"The older customers [who come to the shop] get as excited as ___ little kids [category] ... "

"The older customers [who come to the shop] get as excited as the little kids [who come to the shop] ..."

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'as excited as little kids' is correct because you are not talking about actual kids.
I think the program you are using is maybe not very good.
:)

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I would say both are possible. 
No article - “as excited as little kids” because it refers to kids in general. 
The - “as excited as the little kids” because it refers to the kids coming to this specific shop.

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Unfortunately it is not the correct answer according to Macmillan app.

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I would too, choose ' as excited as little kids ...' that is.

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