Is it profitable to sell cigarettes?

No matter on the street or in the alley, shops everywhere are tobacco hotels, especially cigarettes, including 95% alliance supermarkets and fresh supermarkets. At this time, someone will ask, so many people sell cigarettes, is his profit big? Let's take a look together.

The profit of cigarettes sold in tobacco hotels is about 10% if they are the main best-selling products, and about 5% if they are bought. Some people think that tobacco and liquor stores are a profiteering industry. Without scarcity, there will be no profiteering in industries with high homogeneity. However, nicotine contained in cigarettes can be addictive. Addicted smokers often spend money on cigarettes without hurting their wallets. Some smokers have to smoke a cigarette before going to bed at night. If there were no cigarettes, he would go out to buy them in the middle of the night. There are many smokers, and the cigarette business will not be interrupted. Ordinary tobacco hotels can earn 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a month, and better ones can earn 30,000 to 50,000 yuan.

Let's look at the cost of cigarettes.

Take Soft Sinochem as an example. The cost of a pack of 65 yuan Soft China is less than that of 3 yuan. People always think that this kind of cigarette is very profitable and outrageous. In fact, it also includes about 50% tax. The circulation cost of each link is around 25 yuan, and there is not much profit in the hands of retailers.

Although the profit of tobacco hotels is not too big, the business has never stopped. Take an ordinary smoker as an example: an ordinary smoker packs about 10 yuan a day, which is 3,600 yuan a year. According to the profit of 10%, an ordinary smoker can make you earn 360 yuan a year. China has so many smokers' friends that a thousand ordinary smokers can make you 360,000 yuan a year. This is just a written example, don't take it seriously, everything is subject to actual sales. )

Have you changed your mind about cigarettes? Cigarettes are not profitable, but they are stable. No wonder many supermarkets and shops sell cigarettes, which is not surprising.