Verano Unveils Bodega-Style Dispensary Experience at Zen Leaf Cave Creek in Phoenix

• Verano will explore scaling the new bodega-style dispensary experience across the company’s entire Arizona retail footprint and will offer third-party wholesale partners in-store activation opportunities in the near future.
• The company’s vertical Arizona operations consist of multiple cultivation and processing facilities and eight retail dispensaries, including Zen Leaf locations in Arcadia, Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, Phoenix-Cave Creek and Phoenix-West Dunlop, and Cannabist-branded outlets in Prescott and Tempe.
• Verano’s active operations span 13 states, comprising 157 dispensaries and 15 cultivation and processing facilities with more than 1.1 million square feet of cultivation capacity.

[PRESS RELEASE] – CHICAGO, June 25, 2025 – Verano Holdings Corp., a leading multistate cannabis company, announced the unveiling of a new dispensary format that aims to revolutionize the traditional cannabis retail experience. The new bodega-style model—debuting at Verano’s Zen Leaf Phoenix-Cave Creek dispensary at 12401 N Cave Creek Road in Phoenix—provides visitors with a unique opportunity to browse, interact with, and choose their favorite items throughout the store, offering unparalleled convenience and a modern retail experience historically unavailable for cannabis shoppers.

Verano will welcome guests to experience the new bodega-style dispensary during a grand reopening Zen Leaf Summer Festival weekend celebration June 27-28 at Zen Leaf Cave Creek, featuring giveaways for the first 50 customers each day, meet-and-greets with rap icons Dizzy Wright and Devin the Dude, product deals and discounts, DJs spinning tunes, local artisan pop-ups, food trucks, and more. Zen Leaf Cave Creek is open every day from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Zen Leaf Cave Creek’s transformation offers customers unrivaled convenience, accessibility and the freedom to choose their desired shopping experience. Customers who prefer to shop via the new bodega-style format can hand-select their favorite items from category-specific shelves, including “Flower,” “Vapes,” “Edibles,” “Best Sellers,” “Accessories” and more, with Zen Leaf experts available to offer guidance along the way.

“The dynamic cannabis landscape requires constant innovation and differentiation to push the boundaries of possibility, and today’s unveiling of a completely new dispensary shopping experience at Zen Leaf Cave Creek delivers on that mission,” said Robert Cohen, Verano executive vice president of retail strategy. “I’m proud of our team for bringing forth a vision that has the potential to create an entirely new paradigm for cannabis retail offering unrivaled convenience and consumer choice, and we look forward to welcoming Zen Leaf guests to browse one of the largest accessible assortments of legal cannabis in the nation.”

With the debut of the bodega-style format, Zen Leaf shoppers now have unprecedented freedom and the opportunity to purchase their favorite cannabis products in their preferred manner via traditional and new methods, including self-selecting from shelves, online pre-orders, in-store kiosks, in-person counter service and the debut of curbside pickup service. Verano will also introduce in-store third-party activation opportunities for wholesale partners to provide additional product variety and engagement for Zen Leaf shoppers in the near future.

Along with its eight statewide dispensaries, Verano’s Arizona footprint includes 90,000 square feet of state-of-the-art cultivation and processing operations, where the company produces its portfolio of award-winning brands including Verano Reserve flower, Swift Lift pre-roll joints and vapes; (the) Essence and Savvy flower, edibles and vapes; On the Rocks Live Rosin vapes and extracts; BITS low-dose, high-function edibles; Hi-Klas flower, extracts and vapes; Vital edibles and tinctures; and MÜV transdermal patches and topicals.

For more information and to place online orders, visit ZenLeafDispensaries.com.