Believe it or not, Valentine’s Day weekend is tied up for the marijuana industry.
- It seems as though Valentine’s Day is the best time to try something fun.
Valentine’s Day was on a Sunday this year plus I realized the marijuana shop was going to be especially busy. I decided to come up with a contest for the employees at the cannabis shop. I talked with all of the employees at our regular meeting. I let the crew come up with numerous ideas for the prize for the contest winner. I thought there would be a couple of bizarre ideas plus then eventually most people would agree. Unfortunately, people were all over, some of the crew members had ridiculous ideas such as big screen TVs, Xbox video game systems, plus $500 cash. Others wanted the prizes to be free marijuana items. I could not get the crew to decide on one prize, so I picked all of the satisfactory ideas plus put them all in a hat. I chose one employee to draw a random name from the hat plus that was the actual prize. I did not tell the staff members what the prize was going to be. It seemed pretty much like a lot of fun to keep it a secret, especially when I came to realize that the employee picked the most high-priced price for the contest. I threw a prize of $500 cash into the hat to make everybody super excited. There were 20 ideas in that hat plus that was the one that was actually picked. All weekend, the crew worked a great deal harder to upsell at the register. Sales on marijuana items were 30% up from last year.