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Hurting Employees to Raise Profits

I work for a multi-state cannabis dispensary/cultivator. We have stores in several states including NJ, MO, MI, PA and UT, but are based in Chicago. For the last several months they've been funneling more and more money to their operations in New Jersey. They've always met payroll but that's about it. Our store is consistently out of product because no vendors in the area will work with them because they do not pay their bills on time. At this point it is almost funny how little product we have. At least it would be funny. About 1/3 of income comes from tips. (THIS IS NOT A POST TO DEBATE TIPPING. DO NOT HIJACK THIS TO GIVE YOUR OPINION ON TIPPING). When we don't don't anything to sell we don't have customers then we're expected to lie to customers about why there's no product. It works out to us losing about…


I work for a multi-state cannabis dispensary/cultivator. We have stores in several states including NJ, MO, MI, PA and UT, but are based in Chicago. For the last several months they've been funneling more and more money to their operations in New Jersey.

They've always met payroll but that's about it. Our store is consistently out of product because no vendors in the area will work with them because they do not pay their bills on time. At this point it is almost funny how little product we have.

At least it would be funny. About 1/3 of income comes from tips. (THIS IS NOT A POST TO DEBATE TIPPING. DO NOT HIJACK THIS TO GIVE YOUR OPINION ON TIPPING). When we don't don't anything to sell we don't have customers then we're expected to lie to customers about why there's no product. It works out to us losing about $1,000 a month in income. All so they can increase company profits elsewhere.

I'm so sick of this company. I'm interviewing and likely will be hired elsewhere within the week, but this is just so infuriating. And I needed to vent

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