Guess I have been out of the loop for a bit.. Have been working to get caught back up on all that i got behind on while unemployed...
So I just got a letter from Fred Stoker and sons; in which they tell me as of June 29 2010 they will no longer be able provide products to their valued customers....
Something because of PACT ACT??? So what happened and why cant they stay in business???
"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents,
there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original
right of self-defense...." Alexander Hamilton
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty". Thomas Jefferson
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Pact act doesn't help matters either, I'm sure.
..and my Decoder Ring
Dave
I called them today. They aren't taking new customers and the nice lady told me that even though the date of closing up is in June, the snuff will no longer be available as of May 23.
It was a very sad telephone call. I asked what she would be doing after they closed up.
She said she'd be 'pounding the pavement'. I could tell she was crying.
She couldn't believe it's been 70 years and now all the sudden it's over.
Very sad call indeed, even though businesses close every day, these people didn't do anything other than sell the wrong product ,I suppose.
Well, can only hope something good comes out of it.
Bart
Give them a ring. I'm sure you could work something out with the parent company.
North Atlantic Trading Company is on the straight and narrow but it prefers its business path to incorporate plenty of Zig-Zags. Its North Atlantic Operating Company (NAOC), best known for its Zig-Zag brand of rolling papers, is a top importer and distributor of cigarette rolling papers in the US. NAOC also sells several styles of tobaccos, rolling machines, and accoutrements. North Atlantic Trading's National Tobacco subsidiary is a leading maker of chewing tobacco in the US on the strength of its best-selling Beech-Nut chaw, as well as Havana Blossom, Trophy, Stoker, and others. Chairman Thomas F. Helms Jr. owns about 49% of North Atlantic Trading.
Ibold's in Frankfurt I believe. Maybe somewhere close.Damn, that would be neat to work at Stokers.
I'd consider moving south for that.
Maybe a traveling/snuffing salesman...pushing Stokers on folks
Roderick, buy their recipe! Otherwise, it will be lost...and I won't be able to try it!
I want to say Pickerton makes RedMan Dip and some pipe tobacco, but I don't have any in front of me to be sure.
BTW, is the capital of Kentucky pronounced LOUISville or lou -ville?
And Frankfort is the capital.
Of course this is by a fella with a huge Southern drawl that affects everything he says in a similar manner (-;