How to Score the Best Black Friday Cannabis Deals

Weed lovers will be in for a treat this Black Friday (November 29, 2024). Flowers, joints, gummies, concentrates, vapes, and other products will be sold cheaply. If you don’t have a game plan, though, you could be part of the 47% of credit card holders with a balance. 

In this blog, we’ll discuss how to increase your chances of scoring the best Black Friday weed deals while saving money. Follow the steps and beat the sale season like a winner.

Step 1: Assess Your Financial Situation

Okay, you’re not buying a car or a house. You’re just hoping to buy cannabis at a discounted price. Can you skip this step? Probably, but assessing your financial situation sets the limit of your spending to what you can only splurge at the moment. 

To be clear, the goal of assessing your financial situation is to determine your budget for the Black Friday Cannabis deals.  A good sign that your budget is just right is when you can purchase your desired cannabis products and still meet your monthly financial obligations.

Stick to your budget! It can be tempting to overspend because of the attractive deals and discounts plastered in shining banners. Make it easy to stick with the set budget by:

• Prioritizing which favorite products you like to buy. This prevents you from being diverted by unnecessary purchases. 
• Creating tangible cash limits, such as divvying cash among envelopes labeled for certain financial obligations.

Here are some things to think about when assessing your financial situation: 

• What are my average cannabis consumption habits?
• How much am I earning per month?
• What are my monthly expenses, and how much does each eat from my monthly income?
• How much am I willing to spend on Black Friday Marijuana Deals?

Step 2: Research and Plan

For the record, not every sale or discount is a good deal. If this low-priced Delta 8 flower is in compromised condition, it’s not a good purchase. Even if this particular product, let’s say, is in a premium state but other brands offer it at a lower price, then it’s not that good of a deal either. 

Researching beyond discounts, like comparing the prices of different shops for a similar product, can save you money. Scanbuy is a tool available on the web that allows you to compare prices from different cannabis retailers. 

Take the extra time to find promo codes, cash-back offers, and familiarize yourself with pricing history. Watch out for retailers that show seemingly discounted items only to discover that what was offered is the original price. 

Step 3: Watch Out for the Best Deals

In the weeks or days leading up to Black Friday, your favorite online retailer and physical shops would have already announced the type of sales campaigns they’ll be launching. Do a bit of tracking before Black Friday rolls around. That way, you’ll be ready by Black Friday and won’t spend one day searching for that deal. 

Here are some things you can do to track promotions and other deals. 

• Sign up for the newsletters of the online stores you like. You’ll get first-hand information for any deals they might have or plan to activate. 
• Head to the social media accounts of your favorite stores. Cannabis brands would often post about their upcoming 420 Black Friday deals. 
• Download deal and coupon apps from deal aggregators or store-specific apps. 
• Check deal websites and forums like Reddit. 
• Join your cannabis brand’s loyalty programs. 
• Set up Google Alerts for cannabis brands and products to get notifications about price drops and other promotions. 

Step 4: Look Out for Retailer Tactics

Retailers are cunning in general (it comes with the territory). Although not necessarily insidious, most businesses have some tricks up their sleeves to make their customers spend more. For example, some dispensaries will put out $5 items in front. You’ll be tempted to add that $5 product to your cart when you finally check out. 

One crafty strategy to watch out for is inflating a product’s price before Black Friday to offer a significant discount during the sale. 

Turns out, you can outsmart retailers yourself. One trick is leaving an item unchecked in your cart and browsing for more items. Wait for days or even hours; you will be prompted with an email message offering a discounted offer on the product you’ve left in their cart. 

The next thing to be observant about is the bait of financing for big-ticket items. The devil is in the details. Read the fine print of the financing contract before committing. 

Step 5: Maximize Savings

Coupons and promo codes are the default ways to save big this Black Friday sale. However, there are unexplored saving strategies you can apply to maximize your budget. Here are some of them. 

Consider buying in bulk.

It’s the rule of retail that when you purchase a large quantity of a product, it’s naturally offered at a lower per-unit cost. Bulk purchases reduce handling, packaging, and distribution costs. For consumers, buying in bulk reduces the cost of back-and-forth trips to the store and shipping fees. 

Stacking discounts.

Make good use of your credit card by combining your credit rewards or points with coupons. You can earn back money from those purchases using cash-back sites like Rakuten. 

Don’t buy everything on Black Friday at once.

Black Friday is the start of the holiday sale season. You still have Cyber Monday and all the special sale days until January. If your Black Friday purchase didn’t pan out well, try to wait for even bigger deals, but don’t wait too long, or all the good stuff will have gone out by then. 

Consider shopping online rather than in person.

The days of people fighting over an item and stampedes in stores are over. Nowadays, the biggest deals and discounts are found in online cannabis stores. This allows you to take advantage of all the deals you normally miss when shopping personally. 

The biggest takeaway from shopping online is the lessened stress of rushing with the crowds, lining into a shop, and the heavy traffic of cars. 

Pay attention to shipping incentives.

Jaw-dropping deals are always a good sign, but some retailers might offset this with shipping fees. So pay attention to shipping as well. Most cannabis online retailers offer fast and free shipping in addition to product discounts to attract customers. 

How To Know You’ve Scored a Great Deal?

The most telling sign you’ve scored a great cannabis deal is when you’ve purchased a ticket item at 20% to 50% lower than its original price. Additionally, consider the quality of the product. If it’s cannabis in prime condition that meets your needs and is genuinely priced low, that’s when you know you’ve hit the jackpot. 

What Are The Places to Look for the Best Black Friday Cannabis Deals?

Avoid only focusing on your favorite stores. Explore a variety of cannabis brands online and in brick-and-mortar retailers. Cover all bases by checking the three main facets of shopping on Black Friday:

Online Stores

Cannabis brands with e-commerce stores will compete to offer the best exclusive discounts during Black Friday. Expect promotions to be displayed on their homepage, email newsletters, and social media channels. 

Physical Shops

Don’t forget to visit local dispensaries, vape shops, and other industry-related stores before and during Black Friday. As early as the first week of November, many stores would have displayed in-store banners and other promotional displays announcing special dispensary Black Friday deals.

Industry-Related Apps

Lastly, download industry-related apps that track deals and discounts across various cannabis brands. These apps collect all Black Friday deals mentioned online and provide early bird notifications to its users about upcoming sales. 

Final Thoughts

They say Black Friday is the new Green Wednesday because of a slew of cannabis brands lowering the prices of their ticket items. For cannabis enthusiasts, this might be one of the biggest cannabis sales of the year you can’t simply ignore. 

Score the best cannabis deals by checking out different online and physical cannabis stores, researching differences in discounts across stores, etc. At The Hemp Doctor, we always offer special promotional discounts on our hemp-derived products. To see the latest discount offerings, visit our homepage and check our banner. 

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