Store owners who currently compete in a fiercely competitive marijuana market with razor-thin margins risk suffering significant losses as a result of improper cannabis concentrate storage.
Being able to keep products flowing out before they expire is especially critical for retailers, who frequently have to sell goods below cost or even lower.
Compared to flower or edibles, cannabis concentrates are more susceptible to deterioration. They disintegrate quite quickly when exposed to heat or light.
Concentrates lose strength, taste, and turn brown or black when they deteriorate.
“Once (cannabis products) hit that expiration date, or you see that you’re within a few weeks to a month of the expiration date, you’ve got to make a decision on what you’re going to do,” said Duke Barclay, owner of The Fireplace marijuana shop in Arcata, California. “Either you contact the company to get a refund, or you try to sell it at cost.”
preserving income
Losses due to incorrect concentrate storage have been recorded by cannabis dealers and concentrate producers.
No of the sort of concentrate, Barclay said he keeps them all in a freezer until he moves them to a smaller refrigerator on the sales floor.
The best course of action, according to Barclay, is to store any concentrate you would regard to be of a high caliber in the freezer prior to selling or smoking it.
Brennan Burke-Martin, sales manager at 710 Labs, a multistate grower and concentrate manufacturer, warns retailers who skimp on cold storage may later suffer revenue losses.
He continued, “We’ve taken losses with retailers on storage goods.
Burke-Martin stated that his business has previously been compelled to offer merchandise at steep discounts of up to 40% when, for instance, a freezer malfunction led to a change in the consistency of rosin.
Barclay claims that as the proprietor of a smaller store, he frequently has to give older merchandise a discount in order to move it before it spoils.
To maintain his profit margin, the product must be shielded from any additional deterioration.
The timer begins when the item reaches the front retail area of any store, according to Barclay.
frozen storage
Concentrates can maintain their highest quality up until the point of sale by following a few easy steps.
Concentrates should be preserved in accordance with their type, which can be divided into solventless extraction, ethanol extraction, and butane-hash oil extraction.
Water hash, commonly known as bubble hash, is the main starting material for solventless concentrates.
Rosin can also be made from water hash and flower, or live rosin if the plants were fresh-frozen when they were harvested.
Burke-Martin advised freezing the majority of solventless products, ideally at or below -10 degrees.
He stated that 710 Labs demands that all merchants who sell the business’s goods do so in a freezer.
Burke-Martin stated, “I advise folks if you wouldn’t keep ice cream in that, don’t keep our product in it.”
710 Labs has offered the following list of solventless product storage suggestions:
First and second presses of live rosin: freezer, ideally below -10 degrees.
Freezer, ideally lower than -10 degrees, for persy rosin.
Freezer, ideally lower than -10 degrees; for water hash.
Ideal conditions for persy rosin sauce include a refrigerator or an air-conditioned space that is no warmer than 68 degrees.
Persy rosin is a 710 labs-exclusive, shelf-stable rosin.
Rick Simpson Oil (RSO), among other concentrations, is produced via ethanol extraction, a noteworthy method of extraction.
Burke-Martin advises that ethanol extracts be kept in a refrigerator or a room with air conditioning.
Storage for butane hash oil extraction
To mention a few goods produced from butane extraction, there is shatter, crumble, living resin, and badder.
Although some people still opt to freeze BHO products, Burke-Martin advised that they should generally be kept in an air-conditioned space no warmer than 68 degrees.
Harry Ballance, the proprietor of Errl Hill Extracts, a company with its headquarters in Humboldt County, California, explained that anything that is a live extract should be kept at cold temperatures to ensure that it stays stable throughout its lifetime.
Ballance claims that BHO products like crumble or shatter that weren’t generated from freshly frozen “live” plants are more stable than living or solventless extracts, but they still need to be stored in an air-conditioned space that’s no warmer than 68 degrees.
