Support your budtender

Guests all over the country are nominating the people behind the counter. Here is what that means for your shop.

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Your budtender

Budtender of the Year 2027 is played by budtenders as themselves, not by shops. A guest hands them a card, they say yes, and from then on every nomination, vote, survey answer and challenge adds to that budtender’s own data: who comes to their counter, where from, how often, how they travel. You can sponsor any participating budtender, from your shop or any other, and their code comes with it. Sponsor as many as you like. Participation varies by budtender.

Sponsoring pays for the team’s travel to the rounds and the final, and the money passes straight through to them. It gets your shop’s name on the team page and in the room. To sponsor, email editor@tingeworld.com with the budtender’s working name, and we take it from there.

Your shop’s own code

Your shop can have a code of its own. Every scan through your shop, on cards, on the trifold, on anything with your code on it, adds to your shop’s own data set, in aggregate: who comes in, where they’re from, when they travel, what the year looked like. The whole of 2027 is €819 plus VAT, delivered by March 2028. Email editor@tingeworld.com with your shop’s name, city and KVK number and we set it up and invoice you.

Your region’s free pass

One shop in each of six regions gets the whole region’s 2027 contest data free. Whether yours is still open, reserved or claimed, and when applications open if it isn’t claimed, is on the data pass page.

Your listing

Every shop has a free listing in the POLYC trade directory, always. Claim it, correct it, or have it deleted: the directory page has the form. There is no paid tier.

Your crew

A nominated budtender names two sidekicks: a green sidekick with hands on the product, and a rust and beige sidekick who keeps the house running, the door, the coffee bar, the cleaning. Those are often your people too. Each signs their own waiver and earns their own share. Groups that come in together can run a party page at your counter.

The magazine

POLYC is the trade magazine for the counter. What it costs by the copy and in sets of ten, and how to stock it, is on the for shops order page.