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The closer we get to major traditional festivals, the better business will be for some businesses, but this year, many cigarette hotel owners have found that something is wrong.
At this time of year, high-priced cigarettes that should be hot will not be sold at all this year. Although there is a market for low-cost cigarettes, they are not available at all.
No one buys what is in stock, and some people buy no goods, which makes the commissary and the owner of the cigarette hotel very headache.
After all, the tobacco certificate in my hand is also difficult to get it, and now that this situation has occurred, what is the problem? Is the tobacco certificate in my hand still useful?
Cheap cigarettes have always been very popular, and now not only the owners of commissaries and cigarette shops have found abnormalities, but even old smokers have found that cheap cigarettes are hard to find now.
It is difficult to buy cheap cigarettes
Old smokers who usually smoke a lot will buy cheap cigarettes to smoke, and if they smoke cigarettes at a high price, they are likely to spend a month's salary. In the past, it was easy to buy cheap cigarettes, you could buy them in any street supermarket, and you could even buy them whole.
Nowadays, it is almost impossible to buy a whole low-priced cigarette, whether it is a situation in large, medium, small cities or township commissaries. In places where supplies are even more scarce, some old smokers even go to several supermarkets to buy boxed cheap cigarettes.
This strange phenomenon makes it difficult for old smokers, after all, when they are addicted to smoking, they can smoke a pack a day, so it is not a way to buy cigarettes every day. What's more, the cheap cigarettes sold by the owners of these small supermarkets today are only in stock.
When the smokers communicated with the owners of the small supermarkets, they found that it was not that they did not want to sell cheaply to customers, but that they did not have the goods at all when they bought them. This phenomenon even attracted the attention of relevant media, and after investigation by reporters, it was found that it was a strange phenomenon caused by multiple reasons.
The first is the problem of cheap cigarette production, looking at the entire industry, the number of cheap cigarettes produced has been greatly reduced, which determines the shortage of goods in the downstream market of cheap cigarettes from the source.
The second main reason is the problem of sales channels, the reason why smokers can't buy the whole cheap cigarette is because many small supermarket owners find that the cheap cigarette is difficult to buy, usually split the whole cheap cigarette into a single box to sell, so that the profit will be much higher. After all, whether he can get cheap cigarettes in the future, the owner of the small supermarket is not sure, and the owner of the cigarette hotel is the same.
Smokers buy cigarettes in addition to formal channels such as supermarkets and cigarette hotels. Smokers who have a greater demand for cigarettes will also find tobacco dealers to buy cigarettes, and tobacco dealers are equivalent to scalpers who resell various tickets at high prices, although they can buy cigarettes from them, they will definitely not buy cigarettes at the original price.
Tobacco dealers are the most sensitive to the market of tobacco goods, and when they find that the supply of cheap tobacco has exceeded the demand, they will take advantage of the information gap to take the lead in buying a large number of cheap tobacco. This makes the already small cheap cigarettes even more in short supply.
Tobacco dealers buy cigarettes at a low price, and instead of selling them to smokers at the original price, they increase the price, but at the same time they are cheaper than higher-priced cigarettes. This makes smokers with relatively large addictions, even if they know that they have suffered a dumb loss, they can only pay to accept it. There are many such tobacco dealers, and they take advantage of this period of time to make a lot of money.
The third reason is related to the individual consumer. Although many people have a Xi of smoking, the degree of dependence on tobacco varies. There are some people who are less addicted to cigarettes and may only smoke one box a month, so the price difference between a box of cigarettes is dozens of yuan, which is not much difference for them.
In addition, as people pay more attention to health, many people have begun to quit smoking. The reduction in the production of low-priced cigarettes by tobacco companies is also related to this phenomenon of quitting smoking.
In the face of such sudden changes in the tobacco market, it is difficult for old smokers and small supermarket owners to adapt for a while. Experts put forward their views on this, saying that the relevant departments should still take measures to increase the supply of cheap cigarettes. This one-size-fits-all change is difficult for many smokers to accept.
For old smokers with serious addictions, it is better to quit eating than to quit smoking. Although this statement is an exaggeration, many people have failed to quit smoking many times, which is enough to show that it is very difficult to quit smoking. Since low-priced cigarettes are not available, will these smokers turn to higher-priced cigarettes?
High-priced cigarettes can't be sold
The customers of small supermarket owners are mainly buying low-priced cigarettes, and there are fewer people who buy high-priced cigarettes, because they are often more willing to buy high-priced cigarettes in specialized cigarette shops. Since the owner of the small supermarket is so worried about selling cigarettes, will the business of the tobacco shop owner be better?
According to the feedback of the owner of the cigarette shop, this year's high-priced cigarettes suddenly could not be sold. And it's not just a cigarette hotel owner who is facing this situation, but owners in many areas have such feedback.
In fact, many people who buy high-priced cigarettes do not smoke them themselves, they mainly use them to visit relatives and friends or give them to distinguished guests and leaders. Therefore, during the New Year's holidays, high-priced cigarettes are the best time to sell.
Especially when the New Year's Day and Spring Festival are approaching, the owners of cigarette shops often face the situation of selling out of high-priced cigarettes every year. There are even customers who ask the boss to go out of their way to buy some high-priced cigarettes.
This year is also close to the Spring Festival, but few people buy high-priced cigarettes, let alone ask the boss to go out of their way to buy them. Even many cigarette shops have seen the accumulation of high-priced cigarettes, and the owners of cigarette shops have also made it difficult.
In previous years, even if you accidentally buy too many high-priced cigarettes, you will not be able to sell them after the heat of the Spring Festival. Because there will be a high-priced cigarette second-hand market, there is a stable source of customers in the second-hand market to be responsible for the bottom-up, no matter how many high-priced cigarettes they can sell.
Nowadays, ordinary cigarette hotel owners are very panicked, not only are there not so many customers asking about high-priced cigarettes, but even these veterans of the second-hand market are not coming out to cover the matter. Therefore, many cigarette hotel owners are worried that the high-priced cigarettes they buy will continue to be backlogged.
Every year, the owner of the cigarette hotel points to the income generated around the Spring Festival, as long as the Spring Festival sells well, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell things in the next year, and the current situation is really frightening.
In the past, there was even a saying that the boss with a high-grade tobacco license would not have to worry about it for a year as long as it sold well before the year. Nowadays, many tobacco hotel owners say that their high-end tobacco licenses seem to be useless.
Is the tobacco license still useful?
In fact, the tobacco license is still very useful, it determines whether the merchant can enter the industry. It is an access card, with a tobacco license to be able to sell the corresponding level of cigarettes, if there is no tobacco license, the sale of cigarettes is a violation, and the sale is to bear the corresponding responsibility.
The reason why the tobacco certificate exists is not only to regulate the sale of tobacco, but also to reduce the circulation of counterfeit and shoddy cigarettes. Tobacco retailers are required to have a tobacco license, which allows the authorities to crack down on tobacco dealers.
Tobacco dealers disrupt the market not only because they buy low and sell high, but also because they sell illegal tobacco in their tobacco products. Smoking such cigarettes can bring serious health and even life risks to smokers and those around them.
At present, domestic tobacco licenses can be divided into 1 to 30 grades, of which 1 is the lowest and 30 is the highest. Of course, the specific stalls are related to the region, some areas only have 15 or 20 grades, for ordinary small supermarkets, 10 grades of tobacco license is enough.
This stall is not fixed, it is usually calculated in monthly units, if you take more stalls, it will be high, and the stalls of some cigarette hotels that are not short of customers can reach 28.
However, if the sales volume is unstable and the stalls are reduced, it will lead to a phenomenon that the sought-after good cigarettes in the market will not be available, and then create a vicious circle.
As mentioned earlier, as long as the owner of a cigarette hotel with a high-end tobacco license seizes the opportunity, he can sit back and relax for a year, so many cigarette owners will go through complicated procedures as much as possible to obtain a high-end tobacco license.
The reason why it is difficult to obtain a tobacco certificate is because there is a limit to the number of such certificates. Without it, it cannot be sold, and even if it obtains a tobacco dispute, the merchant must sell the tobacco product in strict accordance with a series of regulations. Not only are cigarettes not allowed to be sold to minors, but there are also policies that need to be followed when pricing them, and even the regions where cigarettes are sold have clear regulations.
It can be said that the former tobacco certificate provides a stable guarantee for the holders of these certificates. The tobacco license not only protects the order of market supply, but also blocks the traders who produce tobacco in violation of laws and regulations from the market, avoids vicious competition, and provides a good soil for the merchants holding the tobacco license.
Today's major changes in the tobacco industry have made it difficult for many businesses selling tobacco to adapt for a while. Smaller retailers, in particular, may have been lucrative for cheap cigarettes for a long time in the past. Now they can't buy goods, which is really a big challenge for them.
For the owners of cigarette shops, their stores often have high operating expenses, and if the high-priced cigarettes cannot be sold, then it may bring about a wave of closure of cigarette shops. Of course, there are also many businesses that have their own countermeasures, they have their own stable customer sources, and they can also shift from the high-priced cigarette market to the medium-priced cigarette market in the sale of cigarettes.
In short, consumers, retailers and tobacco manufacturers have been forced to adapt to this sudden wave of change in the midst of this sudden change in the tobacco market. There are many different theories about where the tobacco market will go after this change.
There is news that low-priced cigarettes are gone, and it will be difficult to find a box of low-cost cigarettes in the future, which has now led to a resurgence of dry tobacco in some areas. It is also reported that e-cigarettes will replace most open-flame cigarettes in the future, because it will not cause harm to human health. No matter how it changes, I believe everyone can find their own way to deal with it.
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