Shred the Spreadsheet: Data Urgency

What if your reports were just … done?

If you’re a cannabis retail buyer, you know this pain: you’ve got a question — a simple one, even — but getting the answer takes hours or even days.

You’re trying to:

• See how much aging inventory is dragging margins across five locations
• Calculate true brand-level margins
• Figure out how to restock smartly after a holiday weekend or promotion(!!!)

But the data you need? It's stuck. Buried in spreadsheets, siloed in Tableau dashboards, or sitting in a queue waiting for someone on your data team to run the numbers. By the time that answer comes back, the moment’s passed. You’re already behind.

What’s the Problem?

Slow data kills good decisions.

Waiting for reports isn’t just annoying, it’s expensive. While you’re lagging behind on decisions, shelves fill up with slow movers, capital gets stuck in the wrong SKUs, and your margins shrink.

The worst part? You are being asked to move faster than ever. Your competition is already reacting to trends, promos, and aging inventory in real-time. If your data takes days to catch up, you're losing ground every hour.

Most Retailers’ Solution: Still Doing This Manually

In most orgs we talk to, reporting is still a build-it-yourself operation. Either you’re building reports in Excel or Tableau, or someone else on your team is. And you’re waiting. Again.

We’ve heard it over and over from Happy Buyers users:

“It would take me a day or two to pull what I can now see in seconds.”
“I had to ask our data team to build a new Tableau view every time I wanted to reorder smartly.”
“We didn’t have visibility into brand-level margins until now.”

More specifically, one of our power users, Andrew Rodriguez of Sonoran Roots / Ponderosa Dispensaries, recently said on our Buyer’s Blueprint webinars that he used to spend Monday - Thursday ordering every week for their 14 locations. 

4 days of crunching numbers and making decisions using spreadsheets that simply can’t keep up with the pace of the role.

So we built something better.

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Our Solution: Shred that Spreadsheet

Imagine your reporting wait times down to zero.

Happy Buyers is designed for immediacy. Instead of building your own reports (or waiting for someone else to), we’ve already rolled them up for you.

What used to take hours or days, now takes seconds:

✅ Aging inventory alerts, across every location
✅ Brand-level margins, instantly visible
✅ Smart reorder guidance, right after a holiday or sale
✅ One-click insights instead of 3-tab spreadsheet gymnastics

With Happy Buyers, you can get an answer, make a call, and move on with your day; all before your morning coffee gets cold.

Back to what Andrew said on the webinar, using Happy Buyers has reduced his reordering every week from Thursday back down to Monday. It takes him 4X less time to order for all his locations with at least 20-30% better accuracy. That’s what we mean by lightning fast.

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Still DIYing reports? You’re already behind.

If you're still generating your own data views, you're spending time and effort just to stay in place. And while you're in spreadsheet mode, your most important buying decisions are falling behind schedule, or worse, being made without the right data.

It's time to shred the spreadsheet and start making real-time, insight-led decisions.

Try Happy Buyers free and see how fast you can go when your reports are already done.

👉 Start your free trial now

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