Since pipe shops are few and far between, and those that exist are on thin ice, I keep wondering what other businesses might take on pipes and pipe blends as a sideline. The obvious possibility of cigar shops and lounges immediately raises the point that cigar sellers don't want people smoking pipes. We get twenty or more smokes out of a tin that costs the same as two or three cigars. They don't want us sitting around the cigar lounge puffing our thrifty blends and recruiting their cigar smokers. As we have observed on various threads, the drugstore chain Walgreens still sells Dr. Grabow and MM cobs and a Capt. Black, but on an almost under-the-counter basis. Who else is there? I remember not that many years ago the grocery chain Food Lion sold tubs of Prince Albert and Carter Hall at the customer service counter. Imagine that. About a century ago when I was a child, many newsstands in downtown Chicago had pipes and tobacco on offer, in a good selection too. That was another place and time.