Unless they put in the right laws, punishment, enforcement and tracking of those found guilty, they’ll just open up elsewhere.
Cut one head off, two pop up elsewhere.
You’re right. If your shop has been shut down you should not be able to open another tobacconists. These businesses must be licenced. These people need to be banned from reopening a tobacconists.
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I just still think more attention should be on the border force. What else is getting in to the country illegally if commercial amounts of illegal cigarettes flood into the country such that shops all over the place can operate fully stocked at the prices they can offer?
If any old store is able to make enough connections to source the product, how are the police unable to?
It’s not about whack-a-mole on the shopfronts, there’s a horrible failure at the border and policing.
That’s also true. I’d say you’ve gotta crack down at both ends of the issue.
I wonder how it’s being distributed around the country, are they using an existing network like box meal delivery services? One of the big problems is that retailers don’t go looking for the illegal products, it comes to them and they sell it or else.
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