BUFFALO, N.Y. - Another grocery store has decided to pull all tobacco products from its store shelves: Buffalo-based Budwey’s Supermarkets.

Budwey’s operates two stores in Buffalo. Owner Frank Budwey said the stores started the effort to stop selling cigarettes and tobacco products about three weeks ago, WBFO News reports.

Budwey’s is the third supermarket in New York to announce this year that it has discontinued tobacco sales.

Economics is at the heart of the issue. The Tonawanda News reports that Budwey’s has seen cigarette sales shrink from aboyut $20,000 to $1,000 per week, the newspaper reports. Budwey told the newspaper that a prime reason for the declining sales is the stores’ proximity to American Indian reservations where cigarettes are sold for $15 less per carton because they don’t assess the $1.50 per pack state tax for cigarettes.