Three stores ordered in 15 minutes: how Bud's Goods buys off live inventory, no substitutions

At a glance

to order all three stores

45 → 15 min

a fourth coming online

3 stores

would recommend

9 / 10

support

10 / 10

The operator

Camylle Nero-Clark is the Purchasing Manager for Bud's Goods & Provisions, one of the most active buyers on Superbud in Massachusetts, logging more than 23 orders in a recent two-week window. She buys for three retail locations, Abington, Watertown, and Worcester, with a fourth store coming online that she has been purchasing for over the last six months. She also filters Cali Blaze product into the company's Lakeville production facility. Her buying is data-driven: she runs sell-through in Happy Cabbage and curates each store's shelf around strain description and menu imagery she holds to a high standard.

The challenge

Before Superbud, ordering Cali Blaze meant going back and forth with her sales rep by email, writing out what she needed for all three stores inside the email thread, or filling out a wholesale Excel menu and sending it back. The bigger problem was what she couldn't see. On email-and-Excel ordering there was no reliable view of how many cases were actually available, so with everyone buying off the same menu at once it became first-come, first-served, and she regularly had to make substitutions and fill-ins when picks came back out of stock.

With Superbud Order

Now Camylle orders against live inventory, seeing cases available per SKU, 20 or 30 at a time, so the substitutions are largely gone. Orders pull straight from real inventory rather than a stale sheet. Total cannabinoids, case sizes, pricing, and the Indica/Sativa/Hybrid attribute are all written right on each item, and she can pull menu images straight for her stores' online menus. She discovers new strains the moment they drop instead of waiting on a rep's email, and she can sign on and order on her own time. The result: an order that took 10 to 15 minutes per location on the Excel menu, about 45 minutes across three stores, now takes roughly 15 minutes total.

It's so much easier to sign on to a platform and get your ordering done instead of sending an email and waiting for that Excel file. Knowing you have 20 or 30 cases of something, it's very rare I'd have to do a fill-in. It's taken off that back-and-forth, which has been really helpful.

Why it matters

• Time back: all three stores ordered in about 15 minutes, down from roughly 45 on the Excel menu.
• Live case counts, no subs: she orders to what's actually on hand, so fill-ins and substitutions have largely disappeared.
• Better buying decisions: total cannabinoids, case sizes, pricing, and strain attributes are right on the item.
• Expanded assortment: she started with 1.2g infused pre-rolls and donuts and has since added 1g and 2g disposables, non-infused pre-rolls, and 3.5g infused flower.
• Order on her own time: she signs on and discovers new drops herself instead of waiting on a rep's menu email.
• Rated highly: 9/10 would recommend, 9/10 ordering, 8/10 menu layout, 10/10 support (signed in 30 minutes after requesting a login).