It sometimes feels like London is a theme-park designed to separate people from their money and entertain the Plebs workforce.
This (and the giant Ferris wheel) certainly don't help.
This (and the giant Ferris wheel) certainly don't help.
Life is about building memories, connecting with people and sharing experiences. Having a variety of places to do that (update: including shops) is nice in my opinion.
London has plenty of those.
If you want American candy, sure.
(To American HNers: this isn't a joke about you. Or even really that much of a joke, alas)
There is one famous, very real, very popular American candy store in London -- Kingdom Of Sweets -- which is absolutely legit and has been trading for twenty years, having started elsewhere. It was famous in British geek culture for being where you bought all the sweets you heard US geeks talking about on Foothills and Surfers and the like.
And then there's a couple of likely legit competitors, and then... a whole layer of fakery, fraud and shell companies.
It's presumably listed, so they can't just demolish it. What do you _want_ them to do with it, if not this?