Cash Is Still King in Cannabis — Here's How One New Jersey Dispensary Took Control of It with MIMO 200 Cash Recycler

In cannabis, cash isn't a payment method. It's an operation.

Every bill that moves through a dispensary has to be counted, verified, stored, and accounted for — usually more than once, usually by hand, usually while the sales floor is waiting on the same people doing the counting. For a high-volume dispensary with a full staff, that's not a nuisance. It's a daily tax on your best people and your tightest margins.

Tahir Johnson, Founder and CEO of Simply Pure Trenton in New Jersey, knows that tax better than most. And in a new video, he explains how the MIMO 200 cash recycler changed the math for his business.

What a cash recycler actually does

The MIMO 200 counts, sorts, stores, and dispenses cash and coin automatically. It prepares tills, verifies drops, and handles change — replacing the manual counting and re-counting that eats back-office hours and invites human error.

For a dispensary, that translates into four things that matter:

• Security. Cash is validated and stored inside the machine instead of moving between drawers, bags, and safes. Fewer hands on the cash means less exposure and less shrink.

• Time. Staff spend their hours serving customers instead of standing over a counting machine.

• Accuracy. Every deposit, withdrawal, and dispense is logged in real time with a full audit trail. Close-out gets faster, and discrepancies surface the moment they happen.

• Visibility. Real-time reporting shows what's in the machine, what moved, and when — across every register and every shift.

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The part most cash automation misses

A recycler that just handles cash is only half a solution. The other half is what happens to the data.

MIMO worked with Dutchie, the leading point-of-sale platform in cannabis, to build an integration that brings cash recycler activity directly into the MIMO database alongside POS data. For Tahir, that's where the real value shows up: cash movements tied back to the transactions that generated them, cleaner accounting, and custom reports built on how his dispensary actually operates.

That's the difference between a machine that handles cash and a system that helps you run the business.

The takeaway

Cannabis retail runs on cash, and cash runs on trust — trust that it's counted right, stored safely, and reported accurately. Automation doesn't just save time. It removes the guesswork.

See the MIMO 200 in action at Simply Pure Trenton. Watch the video below. 👇

MIMO — Automate, Secure, and Simplify Your Cash Handling.