A Q&A with one of the owners of The Puffin Store NJ, which will be New Brunswick's first legal cannabis dispensary.
Q: How do you separate your company from the competition?What differentiates us from other companies in this space is the Puffin Store team. Rarely do you find a team with such a wealth of experience in so many aspects of retail that also have the camaraderie that we all have with each other. I have been in retail for over 20 years, and everyone on the Puffin team has the same focus and drive I had when I first started.
We had to learn quickly that there has to be a happy medium between what you want creatively and what you can feasibly accomplish for a reasonable price as well as what you are allowed to do. And that only scratches the visual aspect. There is so much that goes into building a store, and it is just a newer experience to me.As it stands, the cost of entry into cannabis is so much higher than your typical business.
After five years of recreational cannabis being a part of people’s everyday lives, I would hope that it feels easier for new people to come into a store and feel comfortable and safe in purchasing cannabis for the first time. And I would especially want to see the demonization of cannabis be at its lowest in my lifetime.Travel was a part of my career for so much of my life, and I spent a good portion of my time traveling to Southern California.
I knew I wanted to build a dispensary that serves both the canna-curious and those familiar with cannabis in one place. When the time came for recreational cannabis to arrive in New Jersey, I was already certain that this was the industry I wanted to be in for the next stage of my life. Within weeks, Puffin Store was born, and our journey began.We have so much we want to do that it is difficult to put into words.
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