Comments on: NACS SHOW 2007

By: TAZ

TAZ — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:40:58 +0000

NACS Show 2008

From: Saturday, October 4, 2008

To: Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Location: McCormick Place
Chicago, IL

By: Johnie Jay

Johnie Jay — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:09:31 +0000

Any one know where NACS is being held this year and when? Hope not in Atlanta!

By: Patriot

Patriot — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:48:11 +0000

Hey in reading all the blogging here does any one know why NACS seems to overlook tobacco? I understand they want to help retailers become more profitable by developing food programs but tobacco is still over 40% of my store sales. And I’ve been actually looking to grow this by introducing some of the newer tobacco delivery products like snus, lozenges, gum & gel as I expand the offer! Really puzzles me that they don’t see the effort being put forth by Big Tobacco!

By: Mr. Puff

Mr. Puff — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:39:45 +0000

I went to NACS and I’m still trying to catch up with folks I never got to see. Why wasn’t tobacco in it’s own section. Why no tobacco breakout? Still a very large part of my business. Makes me look forward to the Tobacco show coming in Vegas. Oh and the traffic was just horrible.

By: Csoperator

Csoperator — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:52:24 +0000

Looks like RJR is just milking those old brands. I laughed the other day when someone mentioned that they are now super premium cigs. Yeah right.

By: STIR IT UP

STIR IT UP — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:20:44 +0000

I noticed the same hologram effect, except the short red-headed Irishman had a hatchet in his hand when I looked. Thank God and Greyhound he is gone!

By: The OTP Kid

The OTP Kid — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:03:33 +0000

RJR had to raise their prices. How do you think they paid for that booth?!?!?!

I also noticed the booth had a hologram effect. If you tilted your head the right way you could see the profile of a short, red-headed Irishman. What a tribute!

By: Csoperator

Csoperator — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:19:50 +0000

Pretty interesting to see RJR raising all the prices on the oddball brands. It would be a wonderful day if they do away with their ridiculous EDLP program. I remember a few years back when it was a real program. Now it’s all about fixing cig pricing at the low end. I took my stores off the program two years ago and I have seen great growth across all pricing tiers. It’s all about customer count folks! It’s all about moving more people thru those doors. It’s not all about Reynolds and them being profitable at my expense. I can’t take their p/l to my bank! When I made the decision my Reynolds business actually GREW! I had more traffic in my store and sold more cigs!!!!

By: Tommieboy

Tommieboy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:52:45 +0000

I found the show to be very helpful but Atlanta is a horrible place for this show. The traffic as others mentioned was just miserable. It was a gridlock at times. Parking was great! The trade show layout seemed very fragmented. It was a great time overall!

By: D

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:44:44 +0000

It was a great show for us, but I did enjoy having it at Atlanta. The traffic caused us to miss a few after show events and it took an hour each day to get to and from the show. After long hard days, we just don’t need the added stress.