Helping out the old timers getting their cannabis prescriptions
We were not approved for cannabis delivery at that point, but there was nothing stopping us from picking folks up and driving them here! We actually hired one of the retirees, a former cabby, to drive a golf cart between the old folks community and the cannabis dispensary all day long
The problem with working for a major franchise is that you have no freedom or creativity. Take McDonalds, for example. You can’t have a manager who says “I want my McDonalds to be different then all the others” because that isn’t how it works. They are all the same, with the same meny, the same layout, and the same prices. In the rigid structure of a corporate franchise, you can only follow the rules you can’t think outside the box. Now I work for a locally owned cannabis dispensary, and the owners encourage me to be creative and find new ways to help the clients. Our shop is two blocks away from the beach, and not too far from a pretty large senior citizen community, so a lot of our medical cannabis business goes towards the old folks. One of my ideas was to provide transportation to and from the cannabis dispensary for some of the older clients. We were not approved for cannabis delivery at that point, but there was nothing stopping us from picking folks up and driving them here! We actually hired one of the retirees, a former cabby, to drive a golf cart between the old folks community and the cannabis dispensary all day long. Sales started to increase, and we noticed that our dispensary clients were a lot happier with our shop. My next big idea was to start making cannabis edibles in-house, to cater to the many old folks who were infirm, and couldn’t handle smoking cannabis. I am always finding new ways to serve our client base.