reLeaf Alternative - Mansfield
3/4/2023
They stopped accepting debit. It’s a really stupid business move for them because debit is electronic cash. So to the business it’s the same as cash except better because they don’t have to deal with all the security implications of having all of that cash in their store at any given time. Employees can’t steal debit, but can with cash. Customers aren’t very likely in the year 2023 to have cash on them. The ATM inside has a fee, which makes it even harder for their business. Here’s how/why: I’m rec, so I have a daily limit of 1oz, my bank as an atm daily limit of $400. Since there’s a fee, and the fee comes out of my limit, I can only take $380 out of the atm. So I can only buy $380 worth of product a day when I go there. WHEREAS when they accepted debit I could buy 1oz worth of product no matter what the cost was. Depending on what I’d buy (pre-rolls, flower, cartridges etc.) I could sometimes reach my 1oz daily limit and have it cost me $600. Remember, I have to pay 20% taxes on top of the product and that 20% I needed from the atm. So this business when it comes to my specific scenario (I’m not the only one) loses out on a lot of revenue. It’s really the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen a business do. Usually businesses don’t go out of their way to hinder the amount of product their customers can buy from them. And I think most businesses would prefer electronic cash over physical cash. The way these dispensaries operate almost put me back 15 years ago where my best option to just get it shipped from Cali. It’s like pot became legal, the people who started dispensaries do not know anything about business, and it ruined legal pot in Massachusetts. It may as well still be illegal because it’s still extremely easy to get from non dispensaries, don’t have to deal with the taxes, atm, and all that BS.