Why this exists

A price tracker with a chip on its shoulder about the town it covers.

I'll be straight about what this is. New Buffalo has more dispensaries than a town its size knows what to do with, and the traffic that comes with them isn't slowing down. The cat's out of the bag — the market's saturated, and it won't un-saturate until the industry self-corrects. Pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone.

A town that runs on dispensary-after-dispensary-then-gas-then-Walmart-then-home doesn't get healthier from the visit. The cars come, the dollars leave, and Whittaker Street feels none of it. That's how a place hollows out even while it looks busy.

So this isn't a fight against the traffic — it's a redirect. The people are already coming; the least I can do is point them at the whole town instead of just the checkout counter. Every dollar headed for a dispensary is a dollar that could also stop at the diner, the bookshop, the hardware store down the block. Those owners just need someone to tell visitors they're there. That's what the In town page is for.

The town said yes to dispensaries on the bet that the rest of Whittaker Street would feel some lift. I want to make that bet pay off — cannabis as part of New Buffalo's success story, not the reason it hollows out.

To keep it honest: 15CARTS takes no money from any shop. No ads, no sponsored placement, no affiliate cut. The rankings are pure math, and the only thing I'll ever ask of you is to spread your spending around while you're in town.