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Originally Posted by Antithesis
I wonder if that's what they're doing in the entranceway of the Superstore on 130th. They're boxing it in and there's a huge pile of material for shelving just outside.
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I was at Superstore today; and it appears that is what they are doing; along with a seperate entrance. The shelves inside all have locks, there is "illegal to sell smokes to minors" signs everywhere, and the entrance to the seperate "store" has part of it's sign up- saying convenience.
One thing I have though about this; the original topic- is that something this will do is take cigarette sales away from those who sell them as loss leaders. I'm sure the price that Superstore sells them for nets them very little; whereas a gas station likely marks them up to make it more worth their while. By trying to take away a cheap source for smokes it drives the prices up. And of my friends that smoke, for many of them it was the ~$10 per pack that was the TSN turning point in enabling them to quit.
And a side thought regarding the talk about them making McDonalds illegal, or making health places unable to sell candy bars and chips.... how do we know that isn't the plan currently in place? Because if I owned a store and was told what types of indulgence foods I could not sell, my first arguement would be "then why are we allowed to sell smokes?"
That last paragraph was not quite green text, but to be taken with a grain of salt. (Unless of course you are on a low sodium diet.)