Think one of the reason people have problems getting & finding quality price point sticks is the B & M owner don't want to stock them because of smaller profit per sale v/s higher price sticks.
Recall several years ago a lady comes into the local B & M, she is looking for 200 cigars for her husband 50th. Birthday Party she is throwing. The clerk point her to some $8.00/stickler stuff, she leave say she is not spending $1,600.00 on cigars.
I ask the clerk you sell nothing like Quorum Bundles at $2.00/stick up to about maybe $3.00/stick. Clerk replies the "owner" don't want to strock that cheap stuff. I say well you just lost a $400.00 sale, and he said I have told the owner that.
Customer come in to Cigar shop to buy price point stuff all the time for. Weddings, Bachlor Parties, Babies it a Boy, or it's a Girk Cigars, and special events. Not everyone of their customer is looking for Padron 1926's. Some just want price point Cigars.
I know a guy who runs his local shop like his private club, he sells ZERO he does not personally like. People walk in his shop weekly looking for Acid Brand, he don't sell it, he looses maybe $$10,000.00 - $15.000.00 a year in Acid Sales.
IMHO if you have a Cigar Shop, you need a Big Humidor, Well Stocked Humidor, and what customer want to buy.
