Electronic Cigarettes Sold At Gas Stations Vs. Sold At Specialized Retail Stores With Customer Service

Where will be the better place to buy? Who will take the lead as the electronic cigarette retailer of the future? Will the internet continue to dominate? or will it be the gas station? or the store that specializes in eCigarettes?

As the future bestows upon us, all sorts of amazing new products are making their way into the spotlight. A recent innovation is really shaking things up in the smoking tobacco and quit smoking/pharmaceutical industries. It’s called an electronic cigarette, also known as an ecigarette. It is a hand held device that is about the size of a cigarette, maybe a little bigger. It consists of a rechargeable battery, an atomizer(heater/vaporizer), and a cartridge/reservoir filled with a liquid nicotine solution made from a mixture of pure nicotine, flavoring, and propylene glycol/glycerin. We already know what nicotine is, and flavoring, but propylene glycol may be an uncommon term to some people (even though it is a very common product). It has been found is asthma inhalers dating back to the 1950′s, deodorant, mouth and throat spray, and many more products that are used on a daily basis by many people. It’s also used to create fake smoke in smoke machines.

Most people who consume nicotine consume it through burning smoke. The concept of the electronic cigarette is to be able to transfer that same nicotine, but by a more reasonable alternative besides lighting a object on fire and breathing in its contents. These contents contain tar, carbon monoxide, smoke, burnt matter and a ton of other chemicals.

The electronic cigarette industry began on the internet and that is where it really exploded with popularity. As it progressed into the future, more retail convenience stores and gas stations started carrying the product, as well as an array of specialized electronic-cigarette-only retail stores. The advantage of buying in a specialized retail store is customer service and product support. You don’t get very much customer service at the gas station with ecigarettes and most of the clerks know nothing about the product and won’t be able to teach you how to use a more advanced unit, such as a refillable one(which offers the most savings). Through gas station purchasing, if your product breaks, or needs to be repaired you may have to send it away in the mail for a replacement.

But this is not the case with the specialty shops that focus only on ecigs. A speciality shop can inspect your unit, grab you a new part, or fully replace/refund it without you having to send it back to the manufacturer. They can also teach you how to use the product in the most efficient way so you can ensure that optimal amounts of nicotine vapor are being created. And one of the best things with specialty shops is that there will always be a much bigger selection of eliquid(liquid nicotine) being sold at them compared to at gas stations…we may not ever see eliquid really become a top seller at gas stations because there is no time for a gas station clerk to explain or teach the customer how to use it, especially if there is a line of people paying for gas, who want to get out of the store quick.

So as ecigarettes continue to move into more and more gas stations we might see that specialty shops still prove to be outlets of high sales figures due to the reasoning above. Currently you cannot buy the more advanced, money saving ecigarette products in gas stations, but you can at specialty electronic cigarette stores. It will be interesting to see what the future brings for the industry and which retail locations prevail.

Regardless of all that, we still think that if you’re going to smoke, then why not smoke the tar free, odorless, more reasonable alternative that offers the same amount of nicotine fulfillment, but never has to be lit, won’t create cigarette butts or ash, and will save you hundreds of dollars per month?

Happy Vaping!
Sincerely,
Electronic Cigarettes Inc.

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