Properly Storing Your Smoke Shop's CBD Products

Having a large collection of vaporizers, glass pipes, and grinders is great because you know that these items will sell eventually, and due to their shelf life being unlimited - you are able to keep them for a while until you finally make that fateful sale.

On the flip side of these non-perishable items, we have the collection of alternative experiences offered by CBD items and their legal Mushroom compatriots. These products need to be stored and displayed properly - or else they can become unfit for sale.

With a heap of cash to be made from these products, the question at hand becomes how do you manage your stock of these items and preserve their shelf life as long as possible.

That’s why this week Got Vape Wholesale has gone ahead and laid out the ABC’s of how to properly store your CBDs, and other alternative products like mushroom edibles, in order to ensure that you are getting the best shelf life from your purchases.

Table of Contents:

Why Should I Properly Store My CBD?
Avoid Melted Packages
Boost Customer Satisfaction
Ensure You Are Selling Safe Products
How Do You Store CBD Products?
Keep CBD Products Out Of the Sun
What’s The Best Temperature To Store CBD Products?
Keep An Eye On Expiration Dates
How Do You Store Mushroom Products?
A Properly Stored Outro

Why Should I Properly Store My CBD?

Before we go any further, we wanted to give you some A Christmas Carol nightmare fuel on why you should take the time and effort to properly store your CBD products.

While these issues won’t happen with every product, it’s important to be aware of what can happen to your CBD investments should you not take care of them properly.

Unlike your collection of glass bongs that exist independently of you like a Cat, CBD and Mushroom products are much more the Dogs of the smoke shop worlds - if you don’t give them the proper attention you are going to be dealing with a mess.

So Got Vape Wholesale is going to throw CBD and Mushrooms a bone by explaining exactly why you should follow the rules on properly storing your alternative experience inventory.

Avoid Melted Packages

Tell us if this has happened to you before - you stop at the local WaWa for a Snickers bar to have later, only to end up forgetting about it until it has melted and attempted to fuse with your jean pocket due to the heat.

Just us? Well we want to help you avoid disappointing customers or dealing with chargebacks by letting you know that CBD Gummies if stored at too high of a temperature can potentially fuse together into one giant rat king of a gummy.

No one likes having to pry their edibles apart, especially with how sticky they usually are, so if you follow the proper steps for storing your CBD these are issues that you can completely avoid.

Boost Customer Satisfaction

While the packaging may be the same, not all manufactured products are able to stand up to the test of time while on your shelves.

Thus the difference between a customer opening up their Galaxy Treats Moon Babies Gummies to find a selection of crisp fresh edibles and them seeing a mess of degraded sludge - is entirely up to you.

When customers get reliably fresh and potent gummies from you, this is the experience that they are going to come to expect. Thus when they go to other shops who don’t follow these rules, they are immediately going to notice the difference and come running back to you for the good stuff.

Ensure You Are Selling Safe Products

Lastly, we wanted to point out that as a purveyor of products that some people require for debilitating medical needs - you have a responsibility to your customers to make sure that these products do not lose potency or arrive damaged.

If a patient requires a certain amount of MG to experience relief from their ailments, if you have left your CBD in the Sun and had it degrade 10% in potency - the customer is therefore not going to be getting the correct dosage they need.

That’s why it is of the utmost importance for both your customers' health and your profits to ensure that you are properly storing your CBD and mushroom products.

How Do You Store CBD Products?

In order to take proper care of your CBD products then we recommend the following three tips - avoid direct sunlight, avoid high temperatures, and never feed them after midnight! Oh sorry that’s just Gremlins, the actual last point would be to avoid exposing your CBD products to air, but as your products all arrive sealed, this one should be a given.

It goes without saying that if your CBD products arrive with holes in the bags, a broken seal, or other issues that would expose the merchandise to air - you should not sell it.

These can be the result of factory error, shipping troubles, or other issues and you should contact your wholesaler should any issues like this spring up.

Got Vape Wholesale stands by all of our packaging, so if you want to ensure that products always come correct - make sure to reach out to our Sales Reps to get your next order started.

Keep CBD Products Out Of the Sun

Think of your CBD products like a Vampire, while they can have ludicrously sexy adventures at night - as soon as that sun comes up if they are stuck outside its *poof* instant death by fire.

Much in the same way as these blood sucking legends, your CBD products are also averse to prolonged sunlight. While CBD is not going to burst into flames upon the first touch of light, the reality is that sunlight can cause the chemical bonds within the plant material to begin to degrade and lose their potency.

Now as sunlight in your shop will change over the day, make sure your CBD is displayed somewhere that the light never touches directly.

Even a small amount of daily sunlight can eventually add up to make your stock of CBD worthless, so it's paramount to your success that you have all of your gummies, pre-rolls, and oils in an area that is 100% out of the sunlight.

Additionally, CBD flower can be especially susceptible to the heat - so if you have something like Hidden Hills Bussdown Jawns 10pk, make sure that no excess heat can reach these excellent CBD Pre-Rolls.

To assist with this we recommend keeping your CBD in a cabinet that faces away from the windows or simply having a few display models while keeping your full stock safely packed away in the dark.

What’s The Best Temperature To Store CBD Products?

Experts say that the best temperature to store CBD products is around room temperature, as this is the perfect room temperature sweet spot that ensures the longest possible shelf life of all the products you’ve invested in.

As with sunlight, you want to avoid high temperatures which means you should avoid putting your CBD products near any sort of space heater, hot air vents, or other wall based heating devices.

Despite the overall room not being too hot, the presence of one of these heat emanating devices is a recipe for disaster with CBD products and leads to a spoiled or damaged product.

The opposite is also true, freezing temperatures can be troublesome for your CBD products for a variety of different reasons. Tinctures and other liquid based items can freeze, causing their contents to expand in volume and possibly lead to a popped bottle or can!

For CBD Flower, freezing temperatures can degrade the potency of the materials by eliminating specific hairs on the plant that are involved in creating the experience customers know and love from these products.

Avoid packing too close to your AC unit as these can get chilly over the course of a day and will also produce moisture which is a big no no when it comes to CBD. If your shop is located in a colder climate, we recommend making sure that your shop doesn’t get too cold at night.

Think of it like a goldilocks situation, you don’t want the CBD to be too hot or too cold, but in the happy middle ground where it stays moist, pungent, and delicious!

Keep An Eye On Expiration Dates

Another point to keep in mind is that some CBD products will have an expiration date printed on them, it may be a bit hard to find but many products will list the DAY-MONTH-YEAR that the product is good until in fine print.

Important to note - not all products will have an expiration printed on them. Don’t drive yourself crazy looking for the date, it may just not be there. In these cases we recommend that you note when your product arrived and keep a tab on it to make sure several years have passed and your once delicious gummies are not far past their prime.

Calling the manufacturer of the edibles is a great way to go to the source and directly find expiration dates / suggested shelf life. Should you still be unable to figure it out, as long as the product was from our site - Got Vape Wholesale will let you know proper shelf life timing.

Nothing is worse than a customer coming back with a product that has expired, it’s always good to stay vigilant on these items, even for small snacks you may sell like chips and sodas.

How Do You Store Mushroom Products?

For some added knowledge, we wanted to briefly talk about other alternative experience products like mushrooms. Luckily for us, the same principles that apply for CBD Products are applicable to Mushroom Products!

You are going to want to follow the same steps - a cool, dark place, away from sunlight, devoid of moisture. Just like with CBD, we also don’t recommend putting mushroom products in the freezer to preserve them - this can cause them to degrade in potency.

For items like Hidden Hills Trippy Hills Amanita Mushie Conez, we recommend not placing them in any positions where they are pressed upon. This can cause the “conez” to break and you will end up with disappointed customers!

A Properly Stored Outro

With a better idea of how to properly store your CBD and Mushroom Products, it’s important to do a quick double check on both your displayed stock and your back room stock in order to determine if there are any risks that you can eliminate.

Proper storage is essential to getting the most profit from your product investments, thus taking the time to do this will undoubtedly pay off big time.

For more industry commentary, products guides, and smoke shop insights make sure to check out the rest of our postings at the Got Vape Wholesale Business Blog. Recent articles have delved into the profits available in CBD flower and even an in depth report on high risk credit card processing.