In an odd stroke of fate, Station 420 is located on Main Street next door to The Slow Burn, which also opened in 2014. The nearby city of Yakima dropped its cannabis retail ban in May 2016, paving the way the opening of three retailers: Sweet Relief Boutique, the M Store, and Happy Time.
Station 420 has three medically-certified budtenders on staff. Steady business from the medical side has helped offset competition from other area retailers and falling product prices. “I love our retail customers to death, but it’s just about every week I’m trying to find a specific strain or something for a medical client.” “The medical patients are where my heart is,” he said. The family considered cannabis to help her but at the time couldn’t find any legal suppliers. She had been dealing with chronic pain problems for 11 years. He was inspired to do something to combat rampant opiod addictions following the death of his sister in 2011.
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Now, after remodeling the store’s layout several times, opening a separate glass shop next door, and hiring nearly 30 employees, long waits are a thing of the past-even though the store still serves about 3,000 clients a week, plus more during special events.īefore getting into the legal cannabis business, Marcus sold Harley-Davidson motorcycles. A security guard let patrons in two or three at a time so the handful of budtenders wasn’t overwhelmed by crowds. The store was so busy that first summer that Markus ran misters in the parking lot to cool off lines of waiting customers. The small store opened on July 8, 2014, located on the main route through Union Gap, a city of about 6,000 residents just south of Yakima. “Just keeping enough product on hand was such a challenge back then,” Markus said recently, relaxing in front of a computer screen in the back room of his store. As one of the first approved cannabis retailers in central Washington, business was so brisk that the store could only stay open a few hours each day.
When Adam Markus opened Station 420 in Union Gap three years ago, he wasn’t sure what to expect.
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