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Filshill offers retailers AI programme to help with single-use vape ban

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Scottish wholesaler JW Filshill is offering all the stores it supplies an artificial intelligence (AI) program to help them cope with the forthcoming ban on single-use vapes. The aim of the program, named Vapora, is to let businesses know what they need to do and…

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