Retail
Pricing, merchandising and the operating realities inside licensed stores.
Michigan’s cheap cannabis is now an operating constraint
Michigan’s average adult-use flower price fell to $58.18 an ounce in June, leaving operators to move far more product through a market that now also carries a 24 percent wholesale tax.
Capped licenses and open markets create different kinds of risk
Illinois limits and allocates dispensary licenses while Michigan has no statewide quota, but local zoning, supply rules and operating execution complicate any simple verdict on which structure works.
The shelf is decided by turns, margin, fit—and sometimes law
Cannabis shelf placement is a continuing allocation of scarce store attention, not a one-time brand sale, and the rules can reach the physical case, the online menu and the commercial terms behind both.
A good budtender knows the product—and the limit of the role
The strongest cannabis retail associates combine compliance, label and inventory literacy with careful customer questions, safety information and a willingness to say what a product cannot promise.