While the announcement has caught merchants off guard, the decision is rooted in a combination of regulatory pressure, legal risk, payment compliance, and Shopifys long-term business strategy
As a result, farmers receive only about half what they could get if they sold to private buyers on the mainland, removing the principal incentive to increase production
For example: USA: Total Combustibles (sticks bn) 59 -, Revenue : 10,470 B EUROPE: (includes eastern Europe and Turkey) Total Combustibles (sticks bn) 206 Revenue : 4,996 B Latin America and Africa: Total Combustibles (sticks bn) 149 Revenue : 3,751 B Asia and Middle East: Total Combustibles (sticks bn) 207 Revenue : 3,813 B Some regions sell 3 times the sticks that the US sell and make half the revenue of less
(Lovers Hans and Frieda are played by real-life brother and sister Harry and Daisy Earles, just in case Freaks needed another level of creepiness.) Cleopatra is a terrible cock-tease to poor Hansseemingly out of pure malice, at this point