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A Mood Menu?

The first time we walked into a cannabis retail shop, we felt overwhelmed by the menus. To us, they looked like giant Excel spreadsheets, too much information to understand. Prices seemed arbitrary for similar THC, but why?  Would we even notice a difference? Why...

No Small Business: Part 2

I’ve had some feedback on my post “no small business” where I talked about some of the costs and challenges that make it impossible to open a “small” retail cannabis shop, and the ways that government makes it impossible to “keep it...

No Small Business

Somewhat naively, we planned to open a small cannabis “quick stop” shop. We thought we wouldn’t even require much in renovation, and it would be a good way to make use of our property. Our initial idea was order ahead/window service, although a quick...

Regulation is Helpful for our Mom & Pop Shop

Nurturing Tender Growth Many bigger players in our industry are pushing to reduce the role of the OCS, but as a small retailer, we appreciate that there is a built-in distribution network, and the bigger players can’t co-opt that network with special deals for...