Interesting that there are so many dispensaries in such a small area. Yeah, you wonder how any of them can earn enough of an income to keep their doors open. But, to answer the question of how do any of them make any money, we can use your business, Maybelle's Coffee Garden, as an example. Walk the same path and count how many coffee shops there are. How are your prices compared to your competitors? Maybelle's is not right across the street from the beach or in a high foot traffic zone. So what makes a customer want to go 2, 3 or 5 km up the hill to Maybelle's for coffee? Coffee is coffee, just like with weed, with a few exceptions. Some are harsh, some are smooth, and there are various flavors. With weed, it can have various strengths of THC just as coffee can be decaffeinated or be full blown caffeine infused. For anyone with a coffee shop or dispensary, the coffee or weed can be higher priced than your competitors, but it all comes down to the Customer Experience that your customers get at your business that makes them want to come back.
Visited 21 provinces in Thailand last year and guessed 20 shops. We were booked for 3 nights at Kata Villa at the start of August this year. Axel the lessee was kicked out with no warning after 20 years. Opening again around the corner at Merit Hill Bungalows and honouring all prepaid bookings. Idea for an interview video?
Hey Ritchie. Was nice to have met you in person last week. Hope you enjoy the Red wine mate. All the very best to yourself and Maybell. You have a great set up there.
Hi mate, we have just done a 6 hour binge on your video. Brilliant! We are just selling our house & we be moving to Thailand in January, we are interested in a place also so be good to get in contact soon to pre book stuff
65 weed shops; unbelievable; Must be a lot of hungry people there and you got a fresh refurb; Ideal situation; 2 things I see afar, "are generous" for food and price; 1) 2 x menus; light for the locals and heavy for tourists and 2) reach; add campaign on all local social & media platforms for locals. High season, is a high season... Recap, good food, and great price always keep them coming back! > My Opinion
62 buddy, in Karon and Kata Together, All the best buddy, Have to admit, I am enjoying being back in the UK, Did have an English breakfast yesterday, cocs me double the cost of yours and it was only halth as good, all the best to Steffan and Maybell, Lol
Wow what a long walk,we stayed at( Hotel Woraburi Karon Beach ) opp 13.57...further down the rd there's a Restaurant called ( BUTTERFLY BISTRO ) very good & staff were lovely ,,Thai / Danish..
I noticed a lot of people commented about how can they make a living with so many shops selling weed i would like to point out the same applies to tuktuks and taxis but they seem to 😂😂😅 survive 😂😂😅
You could do a similar count of coffee shops in Da Nang, Vietnam. How could so many survive? Don't get me wrong, I'll never complain about too much coffee 😁
I will guess 63. From my condo to the light at the end on the street is 150m and we have 5 shops on just one side of the road. Wow, I was actually pretty dam close.
Legalization would be my primary reason for going to Thailand. The plane ride there is like 30 hours. I would need a head shift if I were to fly that long.
Too many, hard to make profit with that many competitors all around you.Glad to see your focusing on your business where you are, you and maybelle have great area where a lot of tourist have a place to get away from the rat race during busy season.keep up the good work.
65 wow! not surprised my guess is that serious money was made when it was first deregistered and lots of weed shops made plenty particularly in Bangkok, Phuket etc., now low season has come and change is in the air (and the smell of dope lol!) Most will close and the operations leaning more toward the natural therapy angle will stay - only my opinion man✌️
If you was to incorporate the weed shop into your shop then maybe have a specific room for smoking plus up side thing is when they smoke they will become hungry so can order food at your place so kills two birds with one stone!! Great video though and all the best in your ventures
Once the new Prime Minister gets into office, he will impose tighter regulations on cannabis shops in Thailand. Only the serious weed shop will stay in business and the pop-up shops will close.
I hope so they should make it so you have to pay for a medical card and then the money raised can go back into public spending. That will see around 50% of the shops close.
Could not agree more. The quality is super important, why would people go to average Joe’s weed store when above average Joes weed store has the mad strains? Who wants to smoke shit weed? NOBODY 😂
Dont know about Phuket but Pattaya and BKK have craploads! An explosion since legalisation. Not for me, but interesting what they are trying to do (an exotic Amsterdam)
If it were me, I wouldn't bring in cannabis to your coffee garden, maybe different location, if I was at your coffee shop and I smoked Marijuana while I was there, I would be broke man from eating everything in coffee shop then get sick and people there would think I'm crazy man because I would be laffing all the time, so I would think cannabis in your coffee garden would drive customers away, especially if I was there makeing a fool of my self after lighting up.
I don't think selling pot at Maybelle's would be a good idea. Imagine trying to eat a poached egg on toast and the chap opposite you exhales pot smoke in your direction. It would put me right off my breakfast.
The best cannabis in Kata can be found at Kata Waves Cafe, hands down. They have the best quality for the best prices. Support your local shops, not corporate shops. And, hopefully, the old expats from prohibitionist countries will stop their complaining about something which, for the better part of 2 decades now, given the success of legalization in many US states, has proven all of their arguments against cannabis completely false. Sincerely, someone from Colorado and California 😎
Is the same with Massage and Bars…too many in all…but 30/40 Percent make profit and the other loose money…but the next wait already to take over the business and paid Keymoney and Money for to take over, great for the landlords
Not accusing any specific stores of anything but whether they make money or not wont be a problem as these shops could be used to do some washing if you know what I mean.
Would of thoight you coukd just have a small side line selling joints in the coffee garden 😂 but tbh some of us dont like it and certainly cant stand the smell 😢
I honestly hope the the new government reversed the stupid decision to open up these places that will only draw the wrong type of tourist who just wants to get stones and then get on a motor bike and cause accidents and fill up all of the hospitals .
too many weed shops. Many farmers who thought they would make it with pot, are now struggling with pot crops they cant sell! Most are returning back to the usual crops. The weed experiment really didn't work out like planned here in Thailand.
Because those shops have shit weed and not up to standard, can’t compete with quality. BANGKOK EXOTICS is where the quality is at.. amazing strains, nothing but quality, professional growers are key 🌱
Personally, I don't care if one smokes weed or not however I am not a fan of the bazillion weed shops that now are everywhere. They are a huge player now Thailand and I think they are an eye sore.
You still running Richie?looking good bradda.lost weight.charge on.if a customer in your garden coffee shop wants to light up,how would you handle that?
@@gaoxiaen1 that's not how I understand it. For example, if in a restaurant someone lights up and I object to the smell this can be reported. Nothing to do with the owner.
Incredible. Oversaturated and about to become extinct. It reminds me of 20 years ago when mobile phone and accessory shops were side by side in rows. No originality or common sense in business planning.
Horrible intrusive drug … unlike someone wanting a beer or other types of liquors … we are forced to endure the smell … stench … of others. It is even prevalent on a smokers clothes. How can second hand smoke be an issue and not the smoke of marijuana … ?
Back when I stupidly used to smoke that stuff, the fun part was it being illegal, hard to get, risky, edgy,.... This would have just taken all the fun out of it for me. Now it's just another trite fad like disco, pink hair, tattoos, rap, LGBTQ, girls jeans with rips all over them, etc. Just my opinion; no offense intended at all towards tattooed pink-haired ladyboys in ripped jeans smoking weed at discotheques. Cheers!!
WEED is NOT harmless.. It is a DIRTY business. I would be so disappointed in you Richie if you and your beautiful wife lowered your standards to get involved in the drug business. Its a negative industry! There must be cleaner and more respectable ways to make money.. I would stop following you if you sold WEED///
The majority winning Move Forward Party has proposed reclassifying marijuana as a narcotic. Surely that will turn things around, as it’s pretty out of control at the moment. The law as it stands states that smoking cannabis in public is illegal, but a walk around Patong highlights that no one is respecting that law. I think the authorities will eventually have enough and in typical Thai style will start enforcing the law with an iron rod.
Come on don’t be shy have a guess & don’t cheat 😅
I think you might be surprised? Or maybe not ?
Share what you think I’m interested to know 🤔
i was thinking 15 😂
Ah well, we live in Chiang Mai and there are so many here. It's crazy. I'll bet there are an insane amount in Phuket.
You're a great businessman promoting all the weed shops they smoke the weed get the munchies and go to your restaurant good job!
Common practice , in our association in Spain we send them food orders they send there costumers looking for smoke to us win win
Hey I was the 1st to give this a thumbs up 😀
You really did a great job on this video in a way it says more about what’s happening with weed in Thailand than other videos
Interesting that there are so many dispensaries in such a small area. Yeah, you wonder how any of them can earn enough of an income to keep their doors open.
But, to answer the question of how do any of them make any money, we can use your business, Maybelle's Coffee Garden, as an example. Walk the same path and count how many coffee shops there are. How are your prices compared to your competitors? Maybelle's is not right across the street from the beach or in a high foot traffic zone. So what makes a customer want to go 2, 3 or 5 km up the hill to Maybelle's for coffee? Coffee is coffee, just like with weed, with a few exceptions. Some are harsh, some are smooth, and there are various flavors. With weed, it can have various strengths of THC just as coffee can be decaffeinated or be full blown caffeine infused. For anyone with a coffee shop or dispensary, the coffee or weed can be higher priced than your competitors, but it all comes down to the Customer Experience that your customers get at your business that makes them want to come back.
Visited 21 provinces in Thailand last year and guessed 20 shops.
We were booked for 3 nights at Kata Villa at the start of August this year. Axel the lessee was kicked out with no warning after 20 years. Opening again around the corner at Merit Hill Bungalows and honouring all prepaid bookings. Idea for an interview video?
You edited this to make less sense?
Hey Ritchie. Was nice to have met you in person last week.
Hope you enjoy the Red wine mate.
All the very best to yourself and Maybell.
You have a great set up there.
Hi mate, we have just done a 6 hour binge on your video. Brilliant! We are just selling our house & we be moving to Thailand in January, we are interested in a place also so be good to get in contact soon to pre book stuff
Want to live in hua hin, what you think about the place love to know your thoughts
Will be there next month. Will come and have a coffee at your place.
65 weed shops; unbelievable; Must be a lot of hungry people there and you got a fresh refurb; Ideal situation; 2 things I see afar, "are generous" for food and price; 1) 2 x menus; light for the locals and heavy for tourists and 2) reach; add campaign on all local social & media platforms for locals. High season, is a high season... Recap, good food, and great price always keep them coming back! > My Opinion
Count the stores that sell liquor and cigaettes and compare.
62 buddy, in Karon and Kata Together, All the best buddy, Have to admit, I am enjoying being back in the UK, Did have an English breakfast yesterday, cocs me double the cost of yours and it was only halth as good, all the best to Steffan and Maybell, Lol
We have a dispensary here on prince of Wales island Alaska they make bank literally, and the edibles are so 😋
hello nice video, I'am the owner of the shop at 5:59
I hope everyone can and will all get aBong.
It must be a bit of cleaning service for Country man from Europe country with R ? 64 shops means empty shops if not there?
Wow what a long walk,we stayed at( Hotel Woraburi Karon Beach ) opp 13.57...further down the rd there's a Restaurant called ( BUTTERFLY BISTRO ) very good & staff were lovely ,,Thai / Danish..
I noticed a lot of people commented about how can they make a living with so many shops selling weed i would like to point out the same applies to tuktuks and taxis but they seem to 😂😂😅 survive 😂😂😅
Add one more to that list thank you Thailand 💚❤️💙
You could do a similar count of coffee shops in Da Nang, Vietnam. How could so many survive? Don't get me wrong, I'll never complain about too much coffee 😁
บางครั้งร้านที่อยู่ไกล้ๆกันนั้น ส่วนมากจะมีเจ้าของนายทุนเดียวกัน เรียกว่าการตัดคู่แข่งทางการค้า ไม่ว่าคุณจะเลือกร้านใหนในทำเลนั้น เจ้าของร้าน ก็ได้อยู่ดี😁 อย่างที่ 7/11 ในประเทศไทยที่มีทุกหัวมุมถนนข้างๆกัน
Is it legal to smoke in the hotel balcony?
Yes
I will guess 63. From my condo to the light at the end on the street is 150m and we have 5 shops on just one side of the road. Wow, I was actually pretty dam close.
WOW
If you had gone into the soi towards Centara and around the bars there, you would probably have been able to add 5-6 more pieces
Legalization would be my primary reason for going to Thailand. The plane ride there is like 30 hours. I would need a head shift if I were to fly that long.
Too many, hard to make profit with that many competitors all around you.Glad to see your focusing on your business where you are, you and maybelle have great area where a lot of tourist have a place to get away from the rat race during busy season.keep up the good work.
That's what keeps the prices down.
Pattaya is overwhelming too. Everywhere . Everyone must be stoned. Lol.
Like massage shops. The market wil reach saturation, then the good ones will survive.
The Free Market in action.
Weed is like beer. How many bars are in the area?
65 wow! not surprised my guess is that serious money was made when it was first deregistered and lots of weed shops made plenty particularly in Bangkok, Phuket etc., now low season has come and change is in the air (and the smell of dope lol!) Most will close and the operations leaning more toward the natural therapy angle will stay - only my opinion man✌️
Coming from Australia in September
Looking forward to cannabis
And a coffee at your shop lol
Last Month in Thailand it was a 1000 baht for 1 gram of good quality. I can not touch it due to my health condition but wanted to find out.
So comfortably over £500 an ounce! 😮
Wow!...That's pricey! 😃
If you was to incorporate the weed shop into your shop then maybe have a specific room for smoking plus up side thing is when they smoke they will become hungry so can order food at your place so kills two birds with one stone!! Great video though and all the best in your ventures
I legit guessed 65 bang on - bit freaked out to be fair haha
I have been there 2 weeks a go Weed market is very week
Once the new Prime Minister gets into office, he will impose tighter regulations on cannabis shops in Thailand. Only the serious weed shop will stay in business and the pop-up shops will close.
You never been Phuket before they had weed shops before it was legal
Nooooo waaaaayyyy
That is a bare faced lie
I hope so they should make it so you have to pay for a medical card and then the money raised can go back into public spending. That will see around 50% of the shops close.
Could not agree more. The quality is super important, why would people go to average Joe’s weed store when above average Joes weed store has the mad strains?
Who wants to smoke shit weed? NOBODY 😂
We only have 4 for a big us city I live in.
I think 34 , don't smoke it myself so would avoid places that do, each to their own though.
When your growing weed the profits are massive 😎
Thats crazy, must be more than Amsterdam 😂😂
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There’s too many they won’t all make it .
Maybe the next cafe you open should be called the awsome weed shop
Dont know about Phuket but Pattaya and BKK have craploads! An explosion since legalisation. Not for me, but interesting what they are trying to do (an exotic Amsterdam)
If it were me, I wouldn't bring in cannabis to your coffee garden, maybe different location, if I was at your coffee shop and I smoked Marijuana while I was there, I would be broke man from eating everything in coffee shop then get sick and people there would think I'm crazy man because I would be laffing all the time, so I would think cannabis in your coffee garden would drive customers away, especially if I was there makeing a fool of my self after lighting up.
You're free to go somewhere else that meets your preferences.
It could be that only a very few suppliers own the shops.
It is illegal to smoke it in public and in the shops where you buy it
I keep hearing the weed is not good there. Well i'll be there to check it out for myself in a couple months.
talking of herbs how many food herbs and chillis plants do you grow yourselves for the shop
But if you count how many bars and etc, im planing to move and who want to join business let get in touch
I don't think selling pot at Maybelle's would be a good idea. Imagine trying to eat a poached egg on toast and the chap opposite you exhales pot smoke in your direction. It would put me right off my breakfast.
Don't go there. Problem solved.
The best cannabis in Kata can be found at Kata Waves Cafe, hands down. They have the best quality for the best prices. Support your local shops, not corporate shops. And, hopefully, the old expats from prohibitionist countries will stop their complaining about something which, for the better part of 2 decades now, given the success of legalization in many US states, has proven all of their arguments against cannabis completely false. Sincerely, someone from Colorado and California 😎
At 20 that was enough for me to say not the business to get into
Is the same with Massage and Bars…too many in all…but 30/40 Percent make profit and the other loose money…but the next wait already to take over the business and paid Keymoney and Money for to take over, great for the landlords
Thumbs up 👍 Richie
Stay away from the sticky icky ⚠️
Herb Heaven
Not accusing any specific stores of anything but whether they make money or not wont be a problem as these shops could be used to do some washing if you know what I mean.
I guessed 35. Next mission is to get the best smoke from each one..?
🌴🌴< < < MAYBELLES HERB GARDEN ? WHAT SAYETH YE ? L.O.L. > > > 🌴🌴
Would of thoight you coukd just have a small side line selling joints in the coffee garden 😂 but tbh some of us dont like it and certainly cant stand the smell 😢
You fancy a beer Richie today
Crazy won't last long i'm from hollannd AMTERDAM HAS IT IN CONTROL BUT THAILAND IS GOING CRAZY
It will last long
14? oh boy ...65 was I way off 🤣 Kata has turned to POT
I’m guessing 55 shops
55?
How many shops.. 500 or more shops ?
professional growers are key, they will be the ones who have longevity
LOL A GOOD ONE
Oh , my god , Kata is 24 hours "HIGH" !?!?
I honestly hope the the new government reversed the stupid decision to open up these places that will only draw the wrong type of tourist who just wants to get stones and then get on a motor bike and cause accidents and fill up all of the hospitals .
Come on lazy. I’m waiting to see the cafe now.
too many weed shops. Many farmers who thought they would make it with pot, are now struggling with pot crops they cant sell! Most are returning back to the usual crops. The weed experiment really didn't work out like planned here in Thailand.
Because those shops have shit weed and not up to standard, can’t compete with quality. BANGKOK EXOTICS is where the quality is at.. amazing strains, nothing but quality, professional growers are key 🌱
@@pashablue8431exactly most shops owners know nothing about weed.
Personally, I don't care if one smokes weed or not however I am not a fan of the bazillion weed shops that now are everywhere. They are a huge player now Thailand and I think they are an eye sore.
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Only buy your weed from a guy behind the counter that is wasted, you can't go too far wrong I reckon.
HIGH THAILAND
You still running Richie?looking good bradda.lost weight.charge on.if a customer in your garden coffee shop wants to light up,how would you handle that?
I understand that it's a problem in public if someone complains about the smell.
@@PaulRLight Reataurants are private property. Feel free to go somewhere else.
@@gaoxiaen1 what do you mean?
@@PaulRLight I mean the owners make the rules. If you don't like the rules, go somewhere else, where you like the rules.
@@gaoxiaen1 that's not how I understand it. For example, if in a restaurant someone lights up and I object to the smell this can be reported. Nothing to do with the owner.
SEEDY BUSSINESS LOL
If people smoke at home no problem but don't need people driving motorbikes and cars while stoned. Bad enough with alcohol.
Alcohol is worse.
Phuket karon the universe of cannabis
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I don’t mind them but i diff don’t like walking around smelling it to each is their own.
Incredible. Oversaturated and about to become extinct. It reminds me of 20 years ago when mobile phone and accessory shops were side by side in rows. No originality or common sense in business planning.
Thailand/Phuket. Would not want family with young kids anywhere near. Will give Phuket a miss.
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Think Therese is 42 shops 😂
I don't have any problems with anyone doing it as long as I can't smell it I think it smells like cat 💩 in my opinion
Horrible intrusive drug … unlike someone wanting a beer or other types of liquors … we are forced to endure the smell … stench … of others. It is even prevalent on a smokers clothes. How can second hand smoke be an issue and not the smoke of marijuana … ?
You're not forced to endure anything. Take your business somewhere else.
That would fuck my life up if i took that excuse the language
I think there's too many, some are closing already, should of been regulated
They are. The Free Market is sorting out the poblems.
Too many. Same same
Back when I stupidly used to smoke that stuff, the fun part was it being illegal, hard to get, risky, edgy,.... This would have just taken all the fun out of it for me. Now it's just another trite fad like disco, pink hair, tattoos, rap, LGBTQ, girls jeans with rips all over them, etc. Just my opinion; no offense intended at all towards tattooed pink-haired ladyboys in ripped jeans smoking weed at discotheques. Cheers!!
WEED is NOT harmless.. It is a DIRTY business. I would be so disappointed in you Richie if you and your beautiful wife lowered your standards to get involved in the drug business. Its a negative industry! There must be cleaner and more respectable ways to make money..
I would stop following you if you sold WEED///
Are u serious lol go have a drink
@@wolftone69 does drink will change his opinion?
The majority winning Move Forward Party has proposed reclassifying marijuana as a narcotic. Surely that will turn things around, as it’s pretty out of control at the moment. The law as it stands states that smoking cannabis in public is illegal, but a walk around Patong highlights that no one is respecting that law. I think the authorities will eventually have enough and in typical Thai style will start enforcing the law with an iron rod.
greed
Put the genie back in the bottle? LOL! Prices will fall along with complaints about prices and quality will improve. It's just a plant.
@@gaoxiaen1 dude price fell a long time ago. If you're still buying from shops you're getting scammed. It's all direct from the farm now or online
@@rrgguhgrvnirugu4ghu43konni9 I wouldn't know. I'm not buying.
Will cause so many extra domestic problems.
It’s everywhere!!!!
Why will it cause any domestic problems at all?
Another tourist selfie-video. "Shocked"? Really?
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