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One of the largest drug-store chains in the United States is going to stop selling all forms of tobacco products, including cigars, before the end of the year.
CVS Caremark announced yesterday that it would eliminate cigarette, cigar and other tobacco sales at more than 7,600 stores by October 1. The public company gets some $2 billion annually from tobacco sales.
Most of those sales come from cigarettes. Stores such as CVS don’t have walk-in humidors that contain the type of premium cigars found in brick-and-mortar stores, but they do a considerable business in cigars made by machine, and also in miniature versions of popular premium brands that don’t require constant humidification. Calls to various CVS stores in the New York metropolitan area found the following brands currently stocked: Backwoods, Macanudo miniatures and Cohiba miniatures, Phillies, Dutch Masters, Muriel and Al Capone.
Read the entire story at CigarAficionado.com
