I actually thought that the COVID pandemic would be the end of our business.
I had been building up our purchaser base for over two years, plus finally seemed like I would start turning a healthy profit, when the lockdown hit, however for a few weeks things were shaky, I had no plan how I could survive in such an economic temperature.
Thankfully, our loyal buyers were all reaching out to me, asking myself and others to find a way to stay open. I am not the only cannabis dispensary in town, however for a lot of people I am their first plus only choice. One of our buyers absolutely gave myself and others the plan to start a cannabis delivery service, plus to offer curbside pickup. I ran with the idea, plus the next month I started hiring a series of weed delivery drivers to work for me, however all of our weed delivery team were strictly required to wear masks plus gloves while all of us were in deliveries, plus to of course abstain from using any of the weed products, then no one had a problem with the safety protocols, however more than a few drivers ended up getting fired for sampling the cannabis products while at work. Once I had a great weed delivery team in arena, dealer picked up like never before. Now that all of us are open for dealer like normal again, the weed delivery side of things has still not slowed down. It seems that a lot of our buyers got used to having their cannabis delivered to their front door, so weed delivery is a permanent area of our dealer model.