Posted on 11/05/2014 4:41:59 PM PST by rktman
Unlike supermarkets and drugstores, dollar-stores chains are relative newcomers to selling cigarettes. Yet they’ve quickly discovered that smokers are some of their best customers.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Does that make them “chain smokers”?
The next target for the nazis is revealed ‘low income stores in those areas’
His old tobacco store was long gone, and the drug and convenience stores didn't have them. The young clerks didn't seem to believe Camel even came unfiltered.
But, we do have some awesome Maui Wowee.
Ha! My Jr. High PE coach smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes. In his office! In the school!
Ping.
The 7-11 that is about 100 yards from my home has them.
This is in Oakland, California....
When I was a kid we’d go to the Beach Army hospital at Ft. Wolters when sick. It was funny to watch the doctors step out in the hall to catch a smoke underneath the no smoking sign...
It is not all that much of a secret, that consumers who are addicted to a product are great customers.
Smokes, Mac&Cheese, Oreos and Dr. Pepper. What more do you need?
Luckies another classic brand.
Here's the column. It's quite good if you used to smoke in the old days.
An excerpt:
I knew that Kents contained a filter made with “micronite,” whatever that is, while Parliament’s filters were recessed, for whatever reason. Best of all, of course, were the jingles—give me a piano and I’ll happily play my version of “Take a puff, it’s springtime” (Salem) or “Come up to the Kool taste”—and the no-doubt-deliberately ungrammatical slogans: “Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch” or “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.”
CVS lost my business when they smoked out the smokers. Who do they think they are?*|* They still sell alcohol though. I like both and never wrecked an automobile from smoking too many cigars.
I manage CVS for a large National Account firm. They lost BILLIONS in revenue by getting rid of smoke sales in their stores. Idiots!!!!!
1. Glad you have a job.
2. We didn’t use them for much and now won’t use them for anything. Their choice, my choice.
People can’t provide diapers for their kids but they can somehow afford smokes. I worked for a tobacco company for 20 plus years, we targeted the dumpy part of town. The customer base was loyal...smokes before diapers!
no doubt. But I’m just saying, since the Dems went after CVS, watch dollar stores be next.
Didn’t Don Draper come up with that ad?
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