In her assessment of the Ankeny, Iowa-based chains quarterly results, Bonnie Herzog, managing director of beverage, tobacco and convenience-store research for Wells Fargo Securities, New York, said Caseys experienced weak consumer demand in farm-belt markets, overall softness in restaurants and food retail, a deceleration of cigarette sales and a reversal of recent uptrading trends and a general food deflation. For us, if you look at fiscal 2017, the best-case scenario is margins will be stable to slightly down in the cigarette category, said Bill Walljasper, CFO of Caseys
Because people plug in high-draw devices: cheap tire inflators, sketchy phone chargers, or that ancient portable fridge from your uncles garage and the circuit says nope. Check your owners manual for the location (usually under the dash or hood)
This is about the manufacturing, the importation, the retail of menthol cigarettes to prevent them from being on the market at all, Hamilton said
Oh, is this ham? I love that
This wasn't a marketing show