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3 Trader Joe's Business Strategies Your Company Desperately Needs to Emulate

While you can't start offering your customers Candy Cane Joe-Joes, there's nothing to keep you from copying these three winning TJ's strategies.

Tiffany Delmore | 5 min read

				
Convenience Stores Want to Be Your Local Cannabis MarketThe trade association for convenience stores says stores that check IDs before selling cigarettes and beer should be allowed to sell weed, too.

				Brendan Bures
			
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Lessons All Entrepreneurs Can Learn From the Shop Local MovementBig-box retailers may be hurting due to ecommerce. But small businesses have learned how to thrive.

				Max Rhodes
			
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Study Finds Cannabis Dispensaries Don't Cause High Crime or Low Property ValuesPretty much every concern that prompts towns to deny dispensaries is either unfounded or the opposite of what's true.

				dispensaries.com
			
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Analysis: Cannabis Shops Linked to Lower Crime, Increased Property ValuesA store selling legal marijuana is good for the neighborhood, so why do so many towns forbid them from opening shop?

				David Downs
			
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