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The Dispensary is a five-location cannabis retailer in Colorado, including several stores in mountain tourism markets where demand fluctuates throughout the year.
Brad Roddy oversees purchasing across all locations while also managing broader retail operations. As the company grew, analyzing inventory data through POS exports and spreadsheets became increasingly time consuming.
After implementing Happy Buyers, The Dispensary centralized its purchasing process, giving the team faster visibility into product performance and a more structured way to manage inventory across every store.
Before Happy Buyers, evaluating inventory performance required exporting reports from the POS and restructuring them manually in spreadsheets. This made routine purchasing decisions slower than they needed to be.
For a retailer operating multiple stores, this level of manual analysis made buying unnecessarily complicated.
Three of The Dispensary’s locations are in mountain towns where tourism drives demand. Sales can fluctuate significantly between peak and off-season periods.
Inventory decisions needed to account for these seasonal shifts without tying up too much cash in slow-moving product.
Redi partnered with Happy Cabbage to implement Happy Buyers, streamlining day-to-day inventory management and demand forecasting while empowering staff at every level.
Key features included:
Happy Buyers gave The Dispensary a single place to evaluate sales velocity, inventory levels, and purchasing needs across all locations. Instead of working across multiple spreadsheets, Brad can quickly review product performance and place orders within one workflow.
“It made it one spot where I could look at everything and save time for all the other things I have to do and really dial in my ordering. Happy Buyers sped things up quite a bit. It got me out of the minutia of working through spreadsheets and building pivot tables and all the other stuff you end up doing.”
The new workflow allows Brad to manage purchasing for all five stores in a dedicated weekly buying session.
Happy Buyers also allows the team to manage inventory at the product line level instead of evaluating every SKU individually. Product Lines allow buyers to “bucket” products that share characteristics and sell with similar demand, like 1g pre-rolls or budget wax.
This approach keeps menus balanced without introducing unnecessary complexity. Rather than carrying dozens of similar products, The Dispensary focuses on maintaining a strong selection of reliable vendors within each category.
Sales velocity data also makes it easier to identify slow moving products and continuously refine the assortment.
The Dispensary also uses Happy Buyers to manage the significant differences in demand between its mountain and urban locations.
Rather than relying on past orders or static par levels, Brad adjusts purchasing based on how quickly products are expected to sell at each store. This often means holding tighter inventory in slower periods and increasing depth when demand returns.
“Once the snow melts, the mountain stores won't do nearly as many sales until summer activities start again.”
By focusing on days on hand and product velocity at the store level, Brad can keep inventory lean during slower seasons and avoid tying up cash in excess product.
By using blockout dates within Happy Buyers, Brad can exclude periods of unusually high demand such as holidays, promotions, or peak tourism windows when evaluating sales trends. This prevents those spikes from skewing purchasing decisions during slower periods.
By centralizing purchasing and focusing on product line performance, The Dispensary built a scalable buying process that supports multiple stores while reducing operational complexity.
Happy Buyers allows the team to make faster decisions with clearer data, helping ensure the right products are on the shelf at the right time.
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