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RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - jeffster - 09-16-2020
(09-15-2020, 11:09 AM)tomh009 Wrote: They love doing legislation with acronyms (well, really, initialisms): MORE Act.
Americans do that for everything. Canada doesn't. I mean, look a CERB? It's not even a word. You could pronounce it as curb, which is how you feel if you lost a good paying job and only getting $2K a month, like you have been kicked to the curb.
It's like they come up with an idea, and they end up using a thesaurus to figure out the words where the first letter of each word makes up an easy to remember acronym, but when you look at what it's saying, it's not exactly clear.
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - Coke6pk - 09-17-2020
I think sometimes they accidentally work. Being a gov't employee, almost everything has an acronym … and some are department specific, whereas other departments have the same acronym for a different program.
But I have thousands of examples of acronyms that dont make a word.
[Or, you fake a work out of it --- ie. Heading to the Lick-Bo for some rum. Withdrawing money from Cee-Bic... I think CERB falls into this category]Coke
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - dtkvictim - 10-26-2020
Signage up for Elevate Cannabis in the old Zoup unit
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RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - panamaniac - 10-26-2020
Dogtopia? That new?
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - robdrimmie - 10-26-2020
According to a conversation in my workplace's Slack, as of December 2019 they had a "founders offer" available that sounded to the person who brought it up like paying to be part of a beta test. It was definitely open by March.
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - tomh009 - 10-26-2020
Are they being a bit optimistic? They are not yet showing as approved.
https://www.agco.ca/status-current-cannabis-retail-store-applications
Dogtopia has been open for maybe six months.
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - Rainrider22 - 10-27-2020
My kids and I really miss Zoup.... If anyone knows of a place in the region that just does soup like they did, please let me know...
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - danbrotherston - 10-27-2020
(10-27-2020, 06:59 AM)Rainrider22 Wrote: My kids and I really miss Zoup.... If anyone knows of a place in the region that just does soup like they did, please let me know...
Yeah, I only went a few times, their soups were really good...there is still a Zoup in Cambridge, but that's kind of a long trip for soup.
We make some pretty good soups at home, but somehow, not as tasty...
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - Rainrider22 - 10-27-2020
(10-27-2020, 08:44 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:Not to get off topic but in our home, soup is a staple in our diet. We have to take my daughter to McMaster Kids Hospital often, as a treat we always go to "The Burnt Tongue" https://www.theburnttongue.com/ It is great and I think it would do so well here...(10-27-2020, 06:59 AM)Rainrider22 Wrote: My kids and I really miss Zoup.... If anyone knows of a place in the region that just does soup like they did, please let me know...
Yeah, I only went a few times, their soups were really good...there is still a Zoup in Cambridge, but that's kind of a long trip for soup.
We make some pretty good soups at home, but somehow, not as tasty...
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - panamaniac - 10-27-2020
Still way off topic, but SoupSurreal is worth the trip to Stratford! I was so disappointed when they stopped selling at the Kitchener Market.
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - Rainrider22 - 10-27-2020
(10-27-2020, 10:48 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Still way off topic, but SoupSurreal is worth the trip to Stratford! I was so disappointed when they stopped selling at the Kitchener Market.Thanks, I will go for a drive with the family and try it...
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - dtkvictim - 10-27-2020
Tasty food isn't so off topic in a cannabis thread.
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - taylortbb - 10-27-2020
(10-26-2020, 07:20 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Are they being a bit optimistic? They are not yet showing as approved.
https://www.agco.ca/status-current-cannabis-retail-store-applications
The Cannabist Shop (former Fritsch Fragrances) also has their sign up now, so I assume they've gotten some positive indication they're likely to be approved.
Look at that list I realize we're now up to 6 applications for DTK. 147 King St W (formerly Petsche's Shoes) and 181 King St W (formerly Gypsy Lee clothing) being the two I don't remember seeing discussed here. The application signs are already up for 147, but 181 just had the leased signs go up. I don't see any way DTK is going to support 6 stores long term, so this will be interesting.
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - tomh009 - 10-27-2020
I would think at most two or three in DTK can be viable. And, even so, I would think someone would maybe need to specialize in edibles or something, in order to differentiate.
RE: Cannabis shops in Waterloo Region - robdrimmie - 10-27-2020
I'm very interested in where the number of pot shops downtown stabilizes. If there's one at Victoria and one at Cedar I could still envision enough traffic for several in the middle. There will absolutely be folks going in daily to buy their morning energy drink or afternoon chocolate bar and the brand of the store matters a lot less I think than the specific products.
Obviously the market and customer behaviours are different than restaurants, and our pot shops aren't allowed to be cafes yet so coffee shops aren't comparable, but there's a lot of sources for alcohol and caffeine downtown and I think there's a reasonable chance the same holds true for cannabis.