Retailers, economists and parents worried the clogged supply chain would depress the holiday spirit by limiting inventories last year, but other tobacco products (OTP) category sales remained strong through the end of 2021. And as convenience store tobacco/nicotine category managers will attest, supply issues have existed since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cigar…
ACS Study on Massachusetts Cigarette Sales Decline Is Misleading
On Jan. 4, 2022, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a study compiled by the American Cancer Society (ACS) which claims to analyze the impact of a Massachusetts law banning the sale of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products. The study focused on comparing cigarette sales in Massachusetts from January 2017…
Bidi Vapor Granted Judicial Stay of FDA’s Marketing Denial Order
Kaival Brands Innovations Group, the exclusive global distributor of products manufactured by Bidi Vapor, announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has granted a judicial stay of the marketing denial order (MDO) previously issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Bidi Vapor in September 2021. The ruling, issued…
Special-Edition Space-Themed Lighters
BIC launched its new BIC Special Edition Out of This World Series Lighters. The special-edition series of lighters features new designs, from alien spaceships to celestial views. Designs in this series capture all of the hype surrounding the world unknown. The lighters in this series have a suggested retail price of $2.09 per lighter. BIC […]
Swisher Names Jacinta Carter EVP of Human Resources, People & Culture
Swisher announced it has hired Jacinta Carter as executive vice president, human resources, people & culture. In this new role, Carter will lead all aspects of Swisher’s human resources operations, with a priority focus on organizational alignment, building strong pipelines for future hiring needs, promoting inclusion and opportunity in the workplace, and designing and evaluating…
FDA Provides Update on Proposed Tobacco Product Standards
In April 2021, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its intent to take “significant action toward dramatically reducing tobacco-related disease and death in the U.S.” The agency now says it remains on track to advance two proposed tobacco product standards — one prohibiting menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and another…
Kwik Trip Debuts ‘Kwik Spirits’ Brand
La Crosse, Wis.-based Kwik Trip announced on social media that the c-store chain has launched a new edition to its family of brands: Kwik Spirits. Kwik Spirits offers products such as wine, liquor, beer and tobacco, which includes humidor cigars, roll-your-own, chewing tobacco, vape products and cigarettes. Kwik Trip, which opened its first store in…
Yesway Launches Black Buffalo Products in Stores
All of Yesway and Allsup’s stores — CStore Decisions’ 2021 Chain of the Year — are stocking Black Buffalo’s smokeless tobacco alternative products for sale to adult tobacco and nicotine consumers beginning this week. Yesway has a substantial presence in Southern U.S., with stores predominantly in Texas and New Mexico, as well as seven other…
PMTA-Accepted Tobacco and Menthol Pods
MYLE Vape can now claim PMTA Accepted product status for its Gold Leaf Tobacco and Blue Leaf Menthol pods. MYLE Vape will be showcasing its PMTA Accepted products at the upcoming Tobacco Plus Expo 2022 trade show (Booth 6034) taking place Jan. 26-28 in Las Vegas. The MYLE V4 pods feature anti-leak magnetized technology that […]
Tobacco Braces for 2022
Although 2021 may not have felt “normal” as COVID-19 continued to wreak havoc, key market indicators suggest the tobacco category settled back into more predictive patterns for convenience stores. C-store retailers are looking to tobacco’s Q4 performance and the regulatory landscape for clues on what to expect for tobacco in 2022. Cigarettes Whereas 2020 cigarette…