Individually, small to moderate-sized retailers (delivery services and dispensaries) do not have the purchasing power to access high-volume tiered discounts. For example: A supplier may offer a small delivery service a vape cartridge product at $12 per unit for a 1-5 case order. On the other hand the same supplier will offer a larger, multi-city, venture-capital-backed retailer that same product for $8 per unit if they contract a purchase for 50-75 cases.

Given that many small retailers do not have the working capital, storage space, nor transaction volume to procure inventory at that scale, that bigger retailer will always be able to source their products at lower price-points because of their higher volume orders. This means the larger retailer can offer their customers (consumers) products at lower prices, giving the larger retailer the competitive edge and out-pricing the smaller retailers by 50%.

As a licensed delivery service dC96 has experiences this barrier of scale first-hand. That is why we’ve worked to develop a Bay Area-based network of cannabis retailers that see the ineffectiveness of the outdated, ‘every man for himself’ way of operating their businesses.

The Cannabis Retailer Buyers Bloc aggregates orders from its membership of various retailers and places them as collective orders with its network of preferred vendors. This method of pitching in on bigger orders to get more bang for the buck has always been a part of cannabis economics and culture. In utilzing this time-tested strategy small cannabis operators have access to volume-based discounts that they would otherwise be excluded from.

The ultimate goal is to source quality, in-demand cannabis products in a way that makes them affordable and accessible to our customer-base. With the high overhead and taxes imposed on the cannabis industry, price-sensitive consumers really only have two choices: buy affordable products from big corporate operators or give into the allure of the affordablity of the tax-free, illicit market. With CRBB we’ve cultivated a better way forward, together.