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Juul has stopped accepting orders for its mango, fruit, crème, and cucumber pods to more than 90,000 convenience stores, vape shops, and other retailers that sell them since November 13.
Consumers, however, will still be able to buy all of Juul’s flavors on its website, as well as its four tobacco and menthol-flavored pods in retail stores.
Juul’s c.e.o., Kevin Burns, said the company plans to resume sales to retailers that adopt the company’s new age restrictions and verification system.
The company is also banning sales to anyone under 21, even in states where the legal age is lower. Burns also said the company will more intensely police individual retailers by increasing its secret shopper visits from 500 to about 2,000 per month.
According to Burns, the company won’t sell flavored pods to retailers that aren’t legally allowed to sell them to the public, leaving the door open if federal regulators follow through on plans to restrict those sales to vape shops.