Half Price Cigarettes At Sainsburys

grex9101

madnis7 wrote:

Don't think this is based on any kind of fact is it? they have been around since i was 16, so that's some 8 odd years and are still available in most places. That's like saying "most people don't smoke camels" they're just not available in as many places as the "regulars".

sorry, should have said

....from this particular company - one of the tobacco companies probably maintains sainsburys' cigarette kiosks in return for better placing of their brands.

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most likely thing is that sainsbury's have "delisted" them, therefore are cutting the price to get rid of them quick, to make space for other brands. supermarkets do this all the time, but usually not with cigarettes. Happened in somerfield about 5 years ago with more menthol and, more recently, with winfield and west (remember them?!)

anita1

lewt wrote:

Maybe their dodgy polish ones!!! there's alot doing the rounds in n'ton

Where exacley......????

Havn't smoked any of these in a long time....

plumb1_2

grex9101 wrote:

sorry, should have said

....from this particular company - one of the tobacco companies probably maintains sainsburys' cigarette kiosks in return for better placing of their brands.

All cig kiosk in supermarkets are supplied FOC, by the ciggy companies,and fitted FREE, price 1k-10k , the supermarket only pays for installation of electrics and Data cables.
Plus if a company wants to put their confectonary on display also, they pay as well.

dazco

I have bought loads of these in my local sainsburys but in the form of 10 packets. 20s were full price. Dunhills were cheap as well.

grex9101

plumb1 wrote:

All cig kiosk in supermarkets are supplied FOC, by the ciggy companies,and fitted FREE, price 1k-10k , the supermarket only pays for installation of electrics and Data cables.
Plus if a company wants to put their confectonary on display also, they pay as well.

exactly my point

gromituk

janice_mac wrote:

I wonder if Gordon Brown knows about this !!

Why should he care? You can sell cigarettes for any price you like: the tax is fixed (unlike VAT, which is presumably why VAT stands for value added tax). If you want to sell them at a loss then that's your problem, not his.

divadee

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lewt

anita1 wrote:

Where exacley......????

Havn't smoked any of these in a long time....

Just walk up barrack road (town end ish) near the newsagent opisite the old post office. And there are chaps kockin about there sellin them...

lewt

divadee wrote:

A post has been deleted. Please do not post possible illegal ciggarette sites on this forum. Thanks

Are they illegal? do'h! i thought it might be a con as they looked so cheap....

scottgreenwood

Please guys, don't smoke.

See your GPs and get yourselfs on a quitting plan.

I am a medical student and I have seen people with no legs, people with no lungs (well, completely nackered by emphysema) and people with f**cked up hearts. Quit now and the risk of you having a heat attack returns to normal in 10 years.

If you can't quit cut down or smoke half a cig and smoke the other later, thus halving your daily intake.

Don't take this personally,

Scott