Galleycat says that New York City's enormous used bookstore, Strand Books, is adding a 40-foot candy counter to their cash register area.

Strand co-owner Fred Bass told the New York Daily News: "Browsers who come here to kill time wind up buying candy...We're a bargain book store. Penny-pinchers are our customers...We're selling five times as much candy as we did 'register' books. Candy is an impulse buy."

Wow, really? I can spend hours in a good second-hand bookshop, but used bookstores generally aren't the most appetizing places.