Jason Leopold, Jeffrey Kaye (2011-07-11)
The premiumization trend in duty free retail also extends to gifting, where elaborately packaged multi-carton gift sets and collector-edition cigarette tins are driving incremental spend from travelers purchasing tobacco as gifts rather than for personal consumption, a behavior particularly prevalent among Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Gulf-based travelers
Thered be times when theyd tell us to do whatever it takes to keep the numbers up, but the whole time I was there, the numbers were going down. The only real monitoring of employees in the field came in the form of random audits done by higher-ups who show up in advertising locations unannounced, but the former employees told Vox that these were few and far between although one former brand ambassador said her manager once showed up to the bar in a wig to spy on her
Canberra: Australian Government, 2022
So, what is it that sets these two smoky indulgences apart