I had what I thought was a great idea to get new customers into the store.
Everyone says that you need to “think outside the box” and try new ideas, but when you do try a new idea you get in trouble for it! If I had it to do over again, of course I would make a different choice.
At the time, the idea of a random discount being applied to certain items seemed like fun. The sale items weren’t marked so it was a random chance that whatever you bought would be discounted. I thought it would make shopping at the cannabis dispensary more fun, like a scavenger hunt! It was fun, for about five minutes, but then reality raised its ugly head and I realized that I was bringing chaos to the cannabis dispensary. Conceptually I had a fun idea, but the reality was that once people knew there were discounted items in the cannabis dispensary they started searching for them. People would bring 20 different things to the cash register, and then put them back if they weren’t discounted. There were a ton of people in the cannabis dispensary, and my budtenders were all super busy, and yet the daily sales were no better than normal! After just one day of the scavenger hunt idea I discontinued it, and went back to the normal way of having sales at the cannabis dispensary. I tried my best to think outside the box, but perhaps some traditions of the cannabis dispensary are there for a reason. Maybe my next idea will work out a little better.