Lancashire town with 36 Turkish barbers and 14 vape shops sparks concern

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Vape shops have been flooding my little town for the past 5 years. We’ve probably had about 8 new ones open in up in that time. Most of them are only a quarter mile away from each other.

  My theory is that they expect cannabis to be legalized soon and are staking their claims now so they’ll be ready to start selling that ASAP.

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• TheGoldenV@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t understand why barbers are tied to vapes? Also why are Turkish barbers singled out?

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Racism.

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  • Naich@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Supposedly because they are fronts for money laundering. It seems to be such common knowledge that it seems like they would be the first places to get a visit from the constabulary or Customs and Excise, so I’m wondering if they actually are.

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The only logical conclusion I can draw is that there’s a lot of money laundering going on. Otherwise, it is remarkably stupid to open a business in a market that is already overserved.

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  • Naich@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Seems a bit daft to do your money laundering with a type of business that is renown for money laundering. Seems like they would be very likely to be visited by the authorities.

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    • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not a problem if you’re confident in your laundering skills. Easy to build them by doing business in Money Laundering City

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sincerely hoping every CEO behind vaping gets burned alive

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