Case Study: Bloom City Club achieves smarter purchasing and conserved working capital with LeafLink

How Bloom City Club Conserved Working Capital

Bloom City Club, a Michigan-based retail chain with locations in Ann Arbor, Paw Paw, Sturgis, and Ypsilanti, was looking to reduce purchasing risk and preserve cash flow. The company had been paying for all inventory upfront on 7-day terms, which tied up working capital and made it harder to invest back into the business. LeafLink’s Payment on Sell-Through (PoST) offered a way to understand product sell-through while reducing upfront inventory investment.

With LeafLink’s PoST program, Bloom City Club only paid for product after it sold through, while using Metrc integration and LeafLink dashboards to track inventory movement, optimize reorders, and collaborate with brands in real time. The results included delaying payment on 40% of the order for 60 days, freeing up $1,597 in capital over eight weeks, doubling sales in week 5 on previously slow-moving SKUs, saving $1,284 by cutting two overstocked SKUs from a later order, and avoiding stockouts entirely.

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