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Among the several businesses my grandfather owned was a candy store (in fact, that’s where my parents met as teens). It wasn’t fancy (so they tell me; he had opened a different business by the time I was born), just your basic candy and a soda fountain. But that was then…

…and this is now…when, according to the Los Angeles Times, “upstart companies are launching sweet shops for grown-ups.” The big difference between then and now: The Times says today’s candy stores are for those “with a taste for luxury and bank accounts to match.”