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1

Sad news. Stone Way Cafe is great, and there's no way they can recreate their ambience in a MiiR-style setting. I hope they find an cool old new space. Maybe at the Iron Bull?

2

Curious, when one spends so much time at a place like Stone Way Cafe, how much money are you spending there? Like 1 coffee drink per hour? Doesn't that get expensive? And if you're consuming their salable products at a lower rate, wouldn't they rather you move on to free up the table for paying customers? Since I moved back to Seattle I've become interested in why people go to coffee bars and stay there for a long time and how the establishment feels about it.

3

Wait, that was a bud shop? I just thought it was a cool mural next to Stone Way Cafe ...

4

I will miss both. But the property is ripe for development and I for one was just as excited to see the new restaurants in the area including Evo and Brooks shoes HQ.

Maybe we should get some pitchforks and oppose this sensible development like the Showbox? A dilapidated 2 story property in the heart of downtown can't be redeveloped because you saw a cool concert there 10 years ago? Oh the humanity! Density in downtown? Won't somebody please think of the children!

5

@4: Obviously, the only solution is for our esteemed City Council to extend the Pike Place Historical District to cover Hashtag Cannabis. Because History!!1!

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@2 Some don't mind, some do. A few popular San Francisco coffee shops have covered their outlets.

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Anyone who thinks hashtag is a good shop either hasn't been up the street to oz or doesn't matter. At any rate, @6 nobody cares about sf.

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6

Excellent idea!
Let 'em build over the top of the existing buildings.

(Or give them new first floor spaces at their current rent/whatever....)

We place so much Value on Always making Money....
Where does it stop?

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@7
Thank god somebody said it. Hashtag was always incredibly expensive and dingy. Lemme sing the praises of Oz for a second:

-Some of the cheapest weed prices I've seen in Seattle.
-Low fee ATM (owner bought it and set the ATM fee to $0.50 to slowly recover the costs of the machine, rather than gouging $3+ like most places)
-Does not ID you at the door (owner said this was to stop the 'bouncer' feel you get when going to other Pot shops. According to owner, there is no legal requirement to ID at the door, and it's just Liquor + Cannabis control board flexing on business owners. Also, according to the owner takes away the confrontational shadiness of buying weed, which I agree with 100%)
-Cool, super informative clipboard system showing you the stats of what weed you're getting. Good organization
-nice dog

10

I live next to Oz and essentially always walk down to Hashtag. # has more quality growers (I care more about quality and taste than price) and a bigger selection of stuff I want when I'm on the go - vape carts, prerolls, etc. I love rolling my own bud, but sometimes I just want some convenience after a long day, and Oz's selection leaves a lot to be desired in that regard.

Hashtag has been slipping a little lately (more and more bargain bin growers to appease the cheap crowd who stop in) but still has access to some of the most quality weed in the city (Saints/SGB, Pot of Gold, Seattle Private Reserve, Fire Bros occasionally) and my favorite part - the budtenders aren't afraid to admit which growers and strains are NOT good and are just there for the cheap crowd if you ask.

I really appreciate that level of honesty. Sure, they've had some shitty budtenders (one dude who has a total used-car salesman vibe that I thankfully don't see around hardly anymore) but overall, Hashtag is my favorite spot.

Again, I can pretty much walk to Oz without being outside (I live next door) and I will still go a couple of blocks to Hashtag even with their shitty ATM fees. And FWIW, I don't think Oz competes at all on price. I have never gone in there and thought "man these prices are great", and I never hear of them having sales either.

Maybe they just need a better marketing team. IDK. Just my 2 cents.

RIP the Walrus mural!

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I'm the owner of OZ. and wanted to thank people for bringing up our shop.

@10 Honestly we expect and assume that some people will prefer Hashtag and some will prefer OZ. It's great that you feel you are getting the products you want at Hashtag.

That said, I feel compelled to mention that right now at OZ. in stock we have sixty three different styles or strains of pre-rolls -- all flower, every single one of them -- and forty four different styles or strains of vape carts -- none with propylene glycol or other artificial additives. I don't make it a habit of looking at Hashtag's menu, but I must disagree with anyone who indicates that our selection "leaves a lot to be desired".

We also don't carry anything we wouldn't smoke, vape, dab or eat. If you ask our staff to point out something that is not good, they won't have a quick answer -- because we don't carry crap. We just don't.

Finally, sales are, for the most part, a gimmick. Many other shops buy things specifically from troubled farms or processors and put them on "sale". There's a reason those companies are going under -- the regular prices were too high, or the product not good -- and so any "sale" price on a closeout is just an illusion.

It's a philosophy thing but I'd much rather give everyone a fair price all the time.

We do often have specials where one of our existing providers has given us a special price and we're passing it on, but that's something that is mostly driven by the farms, not us.

Anyhow, this got lengthy, sorry about that, but I really just wanted to take a moment to thank people for bringing up OZ. It's a labor of love for me and my wife and we really appreciate our customers!

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@7 Simply adding insight to a simple matter of coffee shop etiquette from another poster. It's likely happened there as well but I can't comment on that.

I lived in Seattle for 25 years and your response was... very homey. #blessyourheart


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