From: Convenience & Impulse Retailing
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NSW Police are investigating the commercial theft of cigarettes worth $1.7 million from Sydney’s Western Suburbs after a series of break and enters spanning more than a year.
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Jeff Rogut, CEO of the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores, spoke with C&I and offered the following advice for convenience retailers wary of goods provided by suppliers: “AACS does not condone retailers buying or selling stolen, counterfeit, illicit or illegal tobacco products. If a deal is ‘too good to be true’ it probably is and the fines for selling non-compliant products are severe, as well as the loss of reputation. If a franchisee is caught by the authorities dealing in illicit tobacco or stolen goods, they could potentially face the loss of their business.”
