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As most of you know in the USA there was a major tobacco tax added today.
We use to sell these little cigars for $0.74 a pack or $7.32 a carton after tax. Today they went to $2.05 a pack and $20+ after tax. I warned EVERYONE that the tax was coming and to buy as much as they could for the last month or two. They all kept telling me there was no way it was going to go that high. They would say theres no way they can add that much tax.
Most people came in and seen the new price and asked if I was kidding. When told no they would either buy or leave. Not this one SC. No she stood there yelling at me asking how the heck they can go up over 200% just like that.
Now our boss had people come in and change our entire store. We now have to get customers EVERYTHING but pop and candy bars. Everything is all messed up and I was frustrated at that point.
I told her ma'am dont yell at me, I warned you all it was coming. Call and yell at your state rep, congressman, or even the president. But do not yell at me I didnt add the tax. She b*tched some more then left.
Come on now, not only did we warn our customers by telling them AND putting up signs, but the tax has been on the news the last 2 or 3 days around here. If you didn't stock up then its NOT our problem. Theres been two or three "check" days since we started telling them. "Check days" are social security and welfare check days....
And lets not even go into the bags of roll-your-own cigarette tobacco.. We are out of almost all of it except some menthol. People bought it up and our whole seller stopped buying it and limited all stores to the amount they could get because of the tax. Again people were warned but they didnt believe us.... Now we get to hear them complain because we are out.
Oh and yeah go ahead and drive to the next state over. Guess what they got the same tax so its still only a few dollars cheaper and you will waste that in gas. You dont understand what the FEDERAL in federal tax means?
We use to sell these little cigars for $0.74 a pack or $7.32 a carton after tax. Today they went to $2.05 a pack and $20+ after tax. I warned EVERYONE that the tax was coming and to buy as much as they could for the last month or two. They all kept telling me there was no way it was going to go that high. They would say theres no way they can add that much tax.
Most people came in and seen the new price and asked if I was kidding. When told no they would either buy or leave. Not this one SC. No she stood there yelling at me asking how the heck they can go up over 200% just like that.
Now our boss had people come in and change our entire store. We now have to get customers EVERYTHING but pop and candy bars. Everything is all messed up and I was frustrated at that point.
I told her ma'am dont yell at me, I warned you all it was coming. Call and yell at your state rep, congressman, or even the president. But do not yell at me I didnt add the tax. She b*tched some more then left.
Come on now, not only did we warn our customers by telling them AND putting up signs, but the tax has been on the news the last 2 or 3 days around here. If you didn't stock up then its NOT our problem. Theres been two or three "check" days since we started telling them. "Check days" are social security and welfare check days....
And lets not even go into the bags of roll-your-own cigarette tobacco.. We are out of almost all of it except some menthol. People bought it up and our whole seller stopped buying it and limited all stores to the amount they could get because of the tax. Again people were warned but they didnt believe us.... Now we get to hear them complain because we are out.
Oh and yeah go ahead and drive to the next state over. Guess what they got the same tax so its still only a few dollars cheaper and you will waste that in gas. You dont understand what the FEDERAL in federal tax means?
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