There are about 20 tobacco outlets on Newtown’s busy main street – up from just a handful a decade ago. Despite the increasingly crowded market - and the lack of decent signage - business is brisk at the Red Shop.
Behind a store window plastered with gig posters, the premises looks mostly vacant. The shelves are largely bare, and there are unpacked boxes of soft drink on the floor and graffiti on the wall, but none of that matters because the only real business at hand takes place through a window cut into a plywood wall.
I know the title is clickbait but comparing the quantities of small independent drug dealers versus a multinational drug dealer seems like you don’t care about the person but adhere the profits are going.