{"id":165,"date":"2020-02-19T20:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T20:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apextrading.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2020-02-19T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T20:16:51","slug":"pay-to-play-the-latest-mainstream-retail-practice-to-hit-wholesale-cannabis-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/19\/pay-to-play-the-latest-mainstream-retail-practice-to-hit-wholesale-cannabis-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay to Play &#8211; The Latest Mainstream Retail Practice to Hit Wholesale Cannabis Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot off the digital presses of Marijuana Business Daily from the mind of\u00a0Margaret Jackson comes this thought-provoking piece around slotting fees for wholesale cannabis producers. We won&#8217;t spoil too many of the surprises, but it&#8217;s good to start gaining an understanding of how slotting fees work and getting them baked into your B2B cannabis business model.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title single-title\">Pay to play: Cannabis brands fork over cash for retail shelf space<\/h2>\n<p>The increasingly competitive cannabis market is fostering a pay-to-play mentality among both marijuana retailers and the brands they carry.<br \/>\nKnown as slotting fees, the practice requires brands to pay anywhere from $500 to $15,000 a month for premium space on marijuana retailers\u2019 store shelves.<br \/>\nCannabis industry experts recommend marijuana brands build the fees into their budgets because they can cut into their profit margins. The fees are not tax deductible (<a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/pay-to-play-cannabis-brands-fork-cash-retail-shelf-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot off the digital presses of Marijuana Business Daily from the mind of\u00a0Margaret Jackson comes this thought-provoking piece around slotting fees for wholesale cannabis producers. We won&#8217;t spoil too many of the surprises, but it&#8217;s good to start gaining an understanding of how slotting fees work and getting them baked into your B2B cannabis business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temp.apextrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}