Puff N Stuff to shut Lancaster metropolis store, wind down longtime enterprise

Puff N Stuff is slated to shut its final location because the Lancaster metropolis head store winds down after greater than 50 years in enterprise.

Following a liquidation sale, the Puff N Stuff store at 121 E. Chestnut St. will possible shut someday subsequent week, stated Ryan Leese, who owns the enterprise together with his dad, Brian. Leese stated the enterprise on the store, which opened final fall, was by no means nearly as good because it was at Puff N Stuff’s former, longtime location at 253 N. Queen.

The Queen Avenue store closed in June 2021 after the constructing was condemned due to a wide range of electrical and structural points. The Puff N Stuff location on the Retailers at Rockvale, which opened within the spring of 2021, closed in April.

Leese stated the enterprise by no means recovered from the closure of the Queen Avenue location, which he referred to as the start of a “downward spiral.” As well as, he stated many smoke outlets are actually promoting the same product combine as Puff N Stuff, which initially opened in 1969 with a unique proprietor at 227 N. Prince St. in Lancaster.

Puff N Stuff sells smoking equipment similar to pipes, vaporizers, rolling paper, water pipes and bubblers. The shop additionally sells incense, T-shirts and tapestries in addition to CBD and hemp merchandise.

“We now have had so many nice years and have met so many nice individuals alongside the way in which and are blessed and grateful for every considered one of our devoted patrons and enterprise associates that helped make Puff ‘N Stuff a staple in Lancaster for over 50 years,” learn a put up on the Puff N Stuff Fb web page saying the closure.