Professionalizing cannabis purchasing.
I work with dispensary owners and their buyers on purchasing, pricing, and promotions, so the right product is on the shelf at the right price and cash isn't tied up in inventory.
How I Can Help
Focused engagements across the areas that make purchasing work, from the data behind it to the shelf.
Purchasing Strategy
Optimizes cash flow through data-driven purchasing and disciplined par level management.
Market and Pricing Analysis
Benchmarks category and brand performance to identify pricing gaps and market opportunities.
Promotions Strategy
Designs promotions and discount rules around category goals, vendor support, and margin.
Planning & Analytics Tools
Builds open-to-buy models, aging inventory trackers, and demand forecasting tools.
Clean Data and POS Catalog
Rebuilds category architecture, naming, descriptions, and labs configuration so purchasing decisions rest on clean data.
Intake & Receiving Workflow
Redesigns the receiving process to get product from delivery to sellable faster, with fewer errors.
Ways to Work Together
Start with a review of how purchasing works today, then build on it at the pace that fits your team.
Purchasing, Pricing and Promotions Review
A look at how purchasing, pricing, and promotions shape your results. It combines a team questionnaire and a short buyer interview with a review of your data and ecommerce menu. You get a findings review with a one-page Next Steps summary.
Build and Train
A 90-day engagement to build the purchasing process and train your buyer on it, from data and category plan to pricing and receiving. Your buyer stays in the seat and places the orders.
Monthly Review
An ongoing monthly check-in after Build and Train, focused on the topics with the most impact for your stores and shaped around your business.
Eric Halpern, PharmD
Founder, The Halp Center
I spent seven years as a pharmacist before moving into cannabis, where I went from running a single store to leading purchasing and commercial strategy for a premier New England operator. Working at both the store and corporate level gave me a real feel for how purchasing decisions play out, from the counter to the C-suite.
Now I work directly with owners, buyers, and retail teams to professionalize purchasing: clean data, a clear category plan, and a receiving process that gets product to the shelf.
Education
Doctorate of Pharmacy, University of Connecticut
Experience
MSO Director of Commercial Strategy (2023–Apr. 2026)
Dispensary Pharmacist / AGM (2019–2023)
Pharmacy Manager / Retail Pharmacist (2012–2019)
What clients say
"Eric Halpern brought immediate clarity to our buying, inventory and pricing decisions, translating data into a plan our team could actually execute. Within a few months we were carrying less dead stock, turning inventory faster and holding margin without losing the customer. Eric was a genuine pleasure to work with throughout!"
"The Halp Center gets it. They understand how to bring value from day 1 and Eric is the north star for the type of mindset you need in the evolving cannabis industry. The insight and perspective provided to our retail business was necessary, insightful, and refreshing. I can confidently say that the services provided pay for themselves."
"In cannabis, the details are everything — and nobody understands them like Eric. He made our business better from day one. We needed the “halp” and he delivered."