Most of the edibles for the cannabis shop are kept downstairs in the storage room.
The storage room is underground and easily climate controlled without much HVAC power.
I was tasked with filling all of the shelves after our labor day weekend sale. I had a list of items to grab from the storage room. I had a box to fill. I started filling the box with each of the cannabis products on the list. When I got to the bags of edible gummy treats, I saw something moving inside the large box. I thought it was just a shadow, but then I saw more moving objects. It only took a few seconds to recognize the ants. They were all over the bags of gummy THC treats. I put the box in the middle of the room and started looking at other boxes close to the cannabis edibles. I found ants in three boxes. I placed each of the boxes in the middle of the storage room and I went upstairs to inform the manager of the problem. The cannabis shop manager had to contact a pest removal service. We had to empty the storage room completely and all of the products were checked for bugs. It was a huge hassle to clean the storage room and get rid of the ants, but we didn’t have any complaints from our customers. Nobody called us to say they found ants in their edibles. I think we did the right thing by acting fast instead of ignoring the problem. We only lost the contents of the three damaged boxes.