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Those fucking candy shops in London. You know the ones. Also, I used to manage a car wash/detail shop in Florida, and Breaking Bad nailed it.
Yep, the ones in London are American candy shops too.
I haven't seen a candy shop with the scoop bins in forever. When I was a kid, they were a staple of Americana.
but, but you have real chocolate in denmark.... why allow such an affront?
looks fancy. prob can't afford it.
can afford a few Tony's Chocolonely here and there, and that's enough. fucking fantastic stuff.
yeahhhh, had family that worked for godiva. some of it was rather nice but again, their product chain wasn't conflict free for a long time and I don't like slavery choco.
There was a small one that recently rebranded into a doughnut shop. If it was a front at some point, its popular enough to be legit now.
I'm sorry, I'm an ignorant American who's never been across the pond. I'm also confused by further comments calling these shops "American."
Could anyone explain?
They’re in very valuable retail locations in the city centre, they sell American brands of candy at unreasonably high prices, and I have never seen a single customer in any of them buy anything.
They look like this
This article breaks it down.
If you used to manage, weren't you directly involved in the layering of dirty money?
Please do an AMA!
His name is Bogdan