Former President Donald Trump surprised many when he announced in a Truth Social post on September 8 that, as a Florida resident, he’d vote in favor of the recreational cannabis initiative on its November ballot, in opposition to fellow Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Trump earlier claimed on Fox News that his opponent in the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris, put “Black people in jail over marijuana” when she was a prosecutor in California, but since her election to the US Senate in 2016, and as vice president, she’s been an advocate for reform, even sponsoring a bill in 2019 to legalize cannabis nationally.

Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, advocated for his state’s recreational use cannabis law, which he signed in 2023. Contrastly, Ohio’s Senator JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, declined to take a stand on his state of Ohio’s cannabis legalization law that also passed last year.

For cannabis retailers, brands, and growers, the stakes of the election are high. Retail Brew contacted both campaigns to expand on their positions on cannabis reform; neither responded. Here are three major issues for the industry and where our research indicates the candidates stand.

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Shrinkflation, the practice of brands reducing the size of products, often imperceptibly, and charging the same price or more, has irked many. President Joe Biden slammed the practice in a video, while the French and German governments have pursued anti-shrinkflation legislation.

As for consumers, when they notice shrinkflation, 68% said it causes them to switch brands, according to a Clarify Capital survey in May as reported by Chain Store Age.

Now Domino’s Pizza is trying to take advantage of all those shrinkflation bad vibes with a promotion it’s calling Moreflation.

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Sam’s Club is rolling out a new compensation plan this November that it says will make work schedules and pay increases more predictable for employees. The company says it will increase the rate of hourly wages to between 3% and 6% depending on tenure and establish more predictable milestones, with the goal of retaining talent and giving associates a clearer view of their long-term career prospects.

“Until now, retail compensation has largely been about hourly wages, and it’s almost unheard of to talk about frontline associate compensation in terms of a predictable financial future—that changes for Sam’s Club starting today,” CEO Chris Nicholas wrote in a LinkedIn post.

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