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North sting nets only single underage sale
Jump to full article: Attleboro (MA) Sun Chronicle, 2009-06-27
Author: DAVID LINTON SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
Intro: A teenager just shy of his 17th birthday and trying to buy cigarettes in a police sting was turned away at several stores until he finally bought a pack of Marlboros at a newly-owned convenience store downtown.
The youthful looking teen, wearing jeans and a black T-shirt, bought the $7 pack of cigarettes Friday morning from a clerk about the same age at the Town Market on North Washington Street.
It turns out the clerk was working his first day for his father, and just learned a tough lesson in business.
"I just invested $100,000 in this business, and I'm not going to risk it for a 50-cent profit on a pack of cigarettes," said owner Mahmoud Barq, who opened the store six months ago.
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