Without going into the whole politics of the guvmint, postal service, and online sellers, after this whole MESS I’m going to start buying in BULK from my Local Tobacconist. After all I’ve had to buy from them 4 times in the nearly 2 Months I’ve been waiting for my order - Which may Never arrive anyhow! - after all, That’s what “They” want. (use your brains to figure out who “they” is) Check with your local shop, if they don’t have your favorite brand they can usually get it for you, just ask. Tell them you’ll be buying from them on a regular basis - X number of cans per week or month, etc. You think you got a lot of snow where you are? How much snow you think we got at the North Friggin’ Pole?? I’m Friggin’ Santa Claus
I ain’t using my local tobacconist except for pipe tobacco and Poschl Anis. They’re way too expensive compared to online snuff stores.
Too bad I don’t have a local tobacconist.
Yeah. I was stoked when a tobacco near me got General snus. I bought a ton of it and when I got home, I realized it was all expired. Unfortunately, all the “tobacconists” in the metro Detroit area are assholes.
I would but the only things I can get in my town are the occasional Ozana & Poschl Gawith Apricot. I always keep my eye out form snuffs & snus whenever I go out of town and I have got ten lucky a few times and scored some general snus and occasionally a can or two of American snuff both of which aren’t readily available in NW PA or SW NY.
Maybe once Mars gets his shop opened I will, though its not really local. That will be like a once or twice a year thing. Local tobacconists (if you can call them that) are not interested in carrying snuff.
My local tobacconist doesn’t really know anything about tobacco, oddly enough. Great selection of dips, chews (loose leaf, plug, and twists), cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco, though; but she has no idea what dry or nasal snuff is, and is under the impression it is somehow illegal. LOL Also equally clueless about snus.
@xander exactly especially in less densely populated areas like where I live. There is one store in a college town about 40 minutes from here who sells Tube Rose. Should say" has" there have been the same 2 cans there for almost 2 years and when I first saw them they were expired by over a year and a half. To top it all off he wanted like $20 for them. I did however once find Navy and Tops near Philly
About the only place close enough to be called a tobacconist has an excellent selection of cigars and not a few big canisters of pipe tobacco, and they sell a decent selection of RYO, dip, and looseleaf, but this being Michigan there’s very little in the way of plug/twist chew, and the only snuff they had were a few tins of Poschl at very inflated prices. Now that Poschl no longer sells here, they have zero snuff. They did get a General cooler and had stocked it (albeit tucked in an odd corner), but the past few times I’ve been there it was empty and the last time it was unplugged. Sigh…
My local tobacconists aren’t interested in carrying snuff at all. I see little reason to press the issue.
My local tobacconist, and i use that term very loosely, is more interested in serving the vast overall garbed, tractor driving population. (not that there’s anything wrong with that, i grew up farming). OR the younger generation that feel the need to wrap their “herbal tobacco” in flavored wraps(what ever happened to Zig-Zags?) Anyway, the selection of nasal snuf they do carry is limited to Railroad, Navy, Dental, Tube Rose, and Peach Sweet. Oh, and get this, the name of the establishment is The Tobacco Markette…highly original!!
The most prevalent local tobacconist has a pretty good selection of pipe tobacco and cigars, very few cigarettes, and half a dozen dusty tins of medicated snuff. They are progressive enough to offer a couple ecigs, but getting them to stock and promote snuff would likely be a total non-starter; there just isn’t sufficient demand to make it worthwhile for them. And with the FDA imposing so much labeling red tape, most of the snuff I use wouldn’t even be available to them to import. Toque being a wonderful exception. I have to believe that if they were to create a prominent display of Toque snuff, they might generate enough interest to make a go of it, but getting them to agree with that would be something of an uphill battle. Iowans are not innovative, in my experience. Maybe it’s worth a conversation though; I hate to be a defeatist.
@ddavelarsen I totally agree with u on that one. I hail from the south…and i mean DEEEEP south. Whenever i mention snus, thr proprietor thinks I have a speech impediment, and of course when the word snuff is mentioned he gives that wide eyed “are you blind” look and points to the copious amounts of Kodiak, Skoal…etc. I finally got through to him that i was looking for “dry snuff” (the wors nasal really threw him for a loop!). I asked him if he had ever thought of importing some overseas varieties and his response was, “Now why in tha HAIL would I import sumthin they make rat heeyer in tha good ole US of A?!” I give up…online orders it is!!
@fischtix that made me LOL! haha.
Me too, I needed that! 
My local tobacconists don’t/won’t carry snuff. Heck most of them won’t even carry snus or dip. They are high class joints. I give a couple of them enough money for pipe tobacco and accessories I doubt they miss the paltry sums I spend on snuff. One store had snus for a while but they didn’t push it and it didn’t sell. Outside of one store that carries 2-3 Poschl brands, or used to, none of them know what snuff is let alone being willing to order some in for the one guy who would buy it.
My local United Supermarket carries Garrets Sweet&Mild and nothing else. But you can ask the manager to order another brand like Dental and other American snuffs and he will. I doubt he would go for European snuffs, but I am just thankful I can at least get a small selection.
I think it would be easier to find a store that sells crack openly then one that sells snuff. The last place that even sold snuff here didn’t advertise in anyway that they sold snuff. They kept it behind the counter. Before that was one place that sold dean swift and that was about all that made any sense for them to be selling so going local is not only not an option, even if it was the selection would most likely be brands I hate.
I can get dean swift from my pipe and cigar store but he’s not interested in looking into other brands unless sales pick up. He does seem aware of what it is at least though.
I’m quite lucky here, if I need some J&H Wilson’s, then I have a 5 min. walk to my local Post Office. Another 10 min. walk from there, and there’s a Newsagent selling quiet a selection of Wilsons Of Sharrow 10g tins, McC’s and Gawith Hoggarth. All quiet fresh has they have a good turn over…