Rachael Curry
Age: 31
Company: Uncle Ike’s Pot Shop
Title: Procurement specialist
Lucas Marr
Age: 28
Company: Uncle Ike’s Pot Shop
Title: Procurement specialist
Rachael Curry and Lucas Marr are two reasons Uncle Ike’s Pot Shop has remained one of Washington’s leading cannabis retailers. Both were hired during COVID in 2021, both worked their way up the ladder to their current positions, and both have an eye for numbers.
“I love Excel,” Curry says. “I love being organized. All of the key tenants to the job spoke to my natural skills.”
“I went to school for economics and statistics, so I always knew I wanted to be working more on the numbers side of things,” Marr says. “I am truly — even in my free time — looking to streamline the operations of the whole company.”
For many companies, 2025 was a year of downturns in the market, but Uncle Ike’s continued its upward momentum with a 20% increase in transaction volume and a 7% increase in profit for the year.
Curry and Marr say the company caught the growing value-seeking trend from consumers early enough to develop more aggressive promotions and competitive pricing strategies to help increase traffic and sales volume.
“We would not be nearly as successful as we are if we didn’t have such a killer team of budtenders, sales managers, our inventory staff,” Curry says. “Our team here at the distro center has eagle-eyes like no one else. They really are incredible, and our admin is just a total gem.”
Together the duo oversees nearly every brand available at the chain’s varied locations, consistently cycling in new product and finding creative placement to help brands thrive in Seattle’s incredibly competitive cannabis market.
“We’re making sure that brands have the opportunity to put their best foot forward for our customers,” Marr says.
“This isn’t just a product that they’re selling, this is someone’s blood, sweat and tears that they poured into something and they put out into the marketplace,” Curry adds.
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