Theresa Thompson* was so excited to purchase her first legal packet of cigarettes after many months that she kissed the box.
A box would last him a day. In a bid to save money, he would try to buy cartons. While his brand usually sold for R180 a carton, he was paying R500 to R700 under lockdown.Thompson said she was in no rush to stock up on cigarettes. She told TimesLIVE she would be returning to her illicit cigarette dealer to buy his last cartons.
“With legal cigarettes now back on sale, he will be forced to slightly lower his prices to get rid of his stock so I will save a bit,” she said.The manager was, however, optimistic they would last for the rest of the day. Jonathan Cillier said: “We are low on cigarettes because we haven't been ordering. We only had two days to prepare [since President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement on Saturday night], but on alcohol we are all good.”At the Spar in Bergbron, people had taken advantage of the fact that the grocery store opened slightly earlier than the Tops liquor outlet next to it. Smokers were buying cigarettes at the supermarket before alcohol and cigarette sales opened next door.
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