I went to the two new ones in Berthoud yesterday..
Herbs is real nice, right next door to the bank and they actually occupy the old remote drive through lanes so it has a drive trhu window but I am not sure if they are goin to use it. Big and roomy waiting area, nice selection of meds, mainly all stuff that Herb has done but a few outside guys stuff, he has some oil and some Afghani hash that is killer, four day open when I was there but he used to have a pretty decent delivery service before he opened a brick and mortar location(smart)
Alternative Medicine something or another, I forget..brand new place in the basement of another bank, super big, pool table in waiting and they have access to the old bank vault which is real cool. $13 a gram max on their meds but the quality reflects.
Alot of these guys, if not most, spent the last little bit teaching themselves to grow and setup a delivery service in the interim. Most of them start out buying product on the outside until they can get their own mostly mid grade meds ready to sell. Most of them have let margins dictate thier quality nothing more. They really do a disservice to the patient base IMO, If people want cheap meds, well thats what you get, cheap crap. Because of this, none of the real quality stuff ever makes it to the despensaries counters, we just can't sell $600/oz weed to a despensary for $175 or less and let them make $450+ per once off of it, just doesn't work that way.. So basically we all only take $175-$250 weed down to them, we quit even taken the good stuff to most of them at all, its a waste of time an they are not really interested in quality, well unless you give ot to them at brick weed prices..
So when you see that there is really no good meds in the despensaries it is because they do not care enough about their actual patients to even attempt to get the good products in...there are some super badass meds out there for them to get but they would much rather double or even triple thier money on every gram than offer the best to their patients...they literally want to make a 100%+ markup minimum and the retail world just doesn't work that way and after all this is a retail store and the sooner these guys realize that the sooner thay will be ahead of the curve. Its funny that they all say, we only want the best and we only have the best and these guys all know what the best cost..seriously dudes a QP of badass dank Chemdog D or Alien Kush doesn't go for $700bucks, anywhere so why even waste our time and that doesn't change because you decided to open a despensary and want to talk about how your trying to helpo your patients and keep prices low, blah blah, blah..and thorough the overhead arguement at me is just down right silly, there is not a despensary that I have been into yet in this state that has anywhere near the overhead I have and I have been to alot...opening and running a despensary is cheap compared to a full tilt grow op and always will be...I will gladly trade my monthy overhead expenses for any despensary operators in the state.
Remember when you were new and middle man for a bunch of stuff for your buddies, you were lucky to get a quarter out of a QP as compensation for your efforts or a joint or two, but these guys take a QP for every one they sell,,its almost like tellin your buddy tellin you that he can get you oz but you have to buy him one as well for his trouble, wouldn't be your buddy long would he?
Sorry to rant, these guys are just wearing me out lately..
Tex
