GreenBean - the newly opened Woodlake cannabis dispensary hopes to set itself apart from competitors by offering customers a personalized shopping experience.
When customers walk into the 4,000 square-foot building, they will notice a difference. The dispensary is bright, spacious, and customers can see into the showroom from the lower lobby.
A receptionist takes the customer s information and driver s license. As soon as the customer walks into the showroom they see a floor-to-ceiling guide to the different strains of cannabis and the effects.
A budtender then asks the all-important question: What do you want to achieve?
Prices online include taxes so customers always know what they will pay even before walking through the door. The average ticket at GreenBean is roughly $60.
Central Valley Farmworkers Distrustful Of COVID Vaccine, Survey Suggests Monday, December 21, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
Work continues at a winery in Clarksburg, Calif., last month. Farms are operating as essential businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Since the start of the pandemic, Hernan Herandez and his employees with the California Farmworker Foundation have been out in the fields of San Joaquin Valley, handing out tens of thousands of face masks and administering COVID-19 tests to agricultural workers.
“We re testing about 200 to 250 farmworkers a day, as opposed to in the past only having around 40 or 50,” said Hernandez, executive director of the Tulare County-based non-profit organization that provides services to the area’s agricultural workforce. He says at first, farmworkers were hesitant a