American Kandy, Covent Garden

This location used to be a Swatch shop. A long time ago. It was empty for a while and then a clothes shop took the site. Whatever the brand was, it clearly made no impression on me. The lockdowns put an end to it. Then this appeared. They are all over the place: the cheap end of Oxford Street, there's even one near the British Museum. There are a few YT videos on them, like this....



The clue is in the ridiculous prices of the candy bars. You can clean a lot of cash at £10 a bar of some junk that costs nothing at a bankruptcy sale, or is time-expired stock bought from a manufacturer. They won't be paying the rent, because they got a deal to occupy the premises from a landlord, and only mugs pay business rates, amirite? Go out of business when the bailiffs come, right?

None of it would work if whichever bank it is did proper KYC (Know Your Customer) checks on these businesses. But I'll bet they don't bank with one of the UK clearers.

Anyway, what you should be looking at are the sparkling colours, the way the camera handles the range of sunlight and shade effortlessly, and the depth of detail (though I haven't posted the full version). This is the kind of photograph I always knew the X-E4 could take. I'm getting there.