M&M'S New York

"The M&M’s Store exists somewhere between a SkyMall photography set and a handy place for children to expend all the energy from a sugar rush. Yes, it's incredibly corporate, but the sheer scale makes it impressive in a Times Square kind of way, and all the grinning kids inside are pretty endearing. Blow past the first floor, where you’ll find t-shirts emblazoned with M&M’s saying things like “I may be sweet but I don’t sugarcoat things.” On the second floor, there are floor-to-ceiling tubes full of color-coordinated chocolate candies, an M&M’s customizing station, and of course, more rainbow-colored merch. Spend most of your time here—M&M’s are $9.50 per half-pound, which sounds expensive until you realize you’re actually getting a discount of about a dollar per pound over the corner store. " - molly fitzpatrick, will hartman, willa moore

"The Time Square M&M's Store. An overbearing corporate marketing play where cheap mugs cost $15 and t-shirts emblazoned with the brown M&M say things like “I’m sweet but I don’t sugarcoat things.” But also, somehow, an endearing candy shop full of children grinning ear to ear. If you ignore the first floor, which is full of merch that we can only recommend for sleeping in, there’s actually something pretty likable about the second and third floors. That something is the sheer quantity of M&Ms—probably somewhere in the tens of millions—held in satisfying color-coded floor-to-ceiling tubes, like a cathedral of candy. Here, you can customize M&Ms, get your M&M personality read (we got peanut butter brown), and obviously buy more merch. Bulk M&M's cost $9.50 per half pound, and if you need to kill time with a couple kids in Times Square, this is a great option. photo credit: Alex Staniloff photo credit: Alex Staniloff photo credit: Alex Staniloff photo credit: Alex Staniloff" - Will Hartman