As I transition my i502 data mining project from my laptop to the cloud, I’m working on a conceptual framework for offering competitive briefs, reports, charts, and drill-down maps on i502 Producers, Processors, and Retailers. This will include insight, commentary, and a sizeable chunk of data factoids about your closest competitors.
Here are some of my initial thoughts:
- For Producer/Processors
- Production/Processing
- Products made
- Products sold
- Products destroyed
- Products failed testing
- Heat maps with layers for:
- Retailers by location
- Products by retailer
- Wholesale Sales by product type, product, temporal (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
- Retailer markups
- By retailer
- By product type
- By Product SKU
- Production/Processing
- For Retailers
- Wholesale cost
- By product type
- By product
- By producer/processor
- By region/geography
- Retail Sales
- By product type (flower, oil, edibles)
- By SKU (e.g. Skord Nightmare Cookies Live Resin)
- By Producer/Processor
- Top 10 Producer/processor sales drill down
- Top 10 closest retailers (region/geography)
- Top 10 closest retailers (aggregate sales)
- Wholesale cost
Goals:
- Learn who your competition is.
- Understand the range of products your competitors produce/offer/sell.
- Understand the range of products that you or your competitors DON’T SELL (products sitting on shelf).
- Understand how much and when your customers sell.
- Understand where and to whom your competitors sell. ]
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head for now. Will update/edit post as I iterate and refine this conceptual framework.
If you made it this far, thanks for taking the time to read through this post. As a reward, here’s a pic of some Chem Dawg I grew back in the MMJ days.
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Sounds like you’re on your way to becoming the Gartner for Cannibusinesses!
Exactly where I’m going with this idea. I have a wealth of knowledge and perspectives on this industry with the business/software experience to bring more insight to businesses, investors, consumers, etc. Pretty cool. Of course if Trump shuts it down, that a whole different story.