I'm accustomed to seeing "out of stock" next to many of the tobaccos online but while perusing Smokingpipes today I started to get the sense that it's no longer limited to just the usual suspects like Esoterica and Butera. So I used their tobacco locator tool and limited my search to "Tinned Tobacco". There were 1,122 results. I filtered again, this time limiting it to only tinned tobacco products that are in stock and got 851 results. So 24.2% of their tinned products are out of stock right now. That seems really high to me. Knowing that this is a well-run company I'm going to assume that the high percentage is not an oversight but an indication of the rapidly dwindling availability of pipe tobacco.
I plan to revisit this in a month or two and see if the percentage changes much either way. Not that it will accomplish much but as a way to let the data inform my opinion a little more.
I plan to revisit this in a month or two and see if the percentage changes much either way. Not that it will accomplish much but as a way to let the data inform my opinion a little more.