House blends price

[PeteSB75]

Originally Posted by big a

I was checking out some of the house blends that local B&M had and was thinking of picking some up. I check the price on them and the one I wanted was almost $8. Is this common for house blends to be this high in price? I was always under the impression that the house blends where often times on the cheaper side. I ended up getting another $8 stick that i know has a good rep.

Depends on where you are. I buy the De La Concha (NYC) house blends for about that much, but they were the first sticks that Don Pepin Garcia blended when he arrived in the states, so a cut above most house sticks. Normally, I will pick up a couple house blend sticks when I am visiting someplace to smoke my own stuff and need to grab something just to be polite. The shops usually have higher margins on those, so they are happy to sell them.