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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Singed" data-source="post: 620371" data-attributes="member: 6261">Having some Star of the East in my Brigham Prince while my roast cooks.[USER=6523]@MLBbreton[/USER] The Thomas Hinds tobacconist in Winnipeg has been in rapid decline for at least 10 years.They were reliant on a large number of McClelland and Sutliff blends. Once a shop with fifty blends to choose from plus tinned tobaccos at least equal to that number, it now has fewer than 10 house blends and about a dozen tinned options. Their pipe selection has similarly dwindled from dominating their shop to a single display of 48 pipes and a bin for cobs. Death by 1000 cuts. The demise of Sutliff tobaccos will likely end their pipe tobacco enterprise and they will serve cigar afficionados alone. Their stock and trade is largely profitable due to a newly licensed cigar lounge serving several of the nearby hotels favoured by convention attendees. I bear them no ill will but I stopped frequenting the shop over 5 years ago and I really don't want to drop in just to pick over the carcass, it would spoil my memory of the place. I began my patronage with them the first week they opened in Winnipeg, about 32 years ago.</blockquote>