Cannabist Company to lay off 86 workers at Vineland facility
Cannabist will cut 86 jobs at its Vineland facility, a hit to one of Cumberland County’s major cannabis employers. The layoff follows a year of expansion and companywide restructuring.
The Cannabist Company has filed a WARN notice for 86 layoffs at its Vineland facility, with the cuts set to take effect Oct. 11, 2026. The reduction lands in a city and county that had counted the cannabis operator among its growing employers, and it raises new questions about how stable Cumberland County’s marijuana economy really is after the early growth promise.
The Vineland site at 1560 North West Blvd. had been expanding with city approval in 2024 to meet stronger demand for adult-use cannabis in New Jersey. The company also has dispensaries in Vineland, Deptford and Mays Landing, where Cannabist opened a store at 4476 Black Horse Pike and began serving medical patients on Dec. 30, 2024 before adult-use sales started April 29, 2025.
The layoffs come amid broader retrenchment at The Cannabist Company. On March 24, 2026, the company said it had ceased operations in New York and was in the process of ceasing operations in Pennsylvania. In March, it also announced a strategic transaction process, and in May a Delaware court granted the company Chapter 15 recognition, a bankruptcy protection step that industry coverage described as the first time a cannabis multistate operator successfully obtained federal bankruptcy protection in the U.S.
In Vineland, the cuts will reverberate beyond the company’s payroll. Cumberland County lists The Cannabist Company among its major employers, and the facility’s workforce includes unionized cultivators who voted to join UFCW Local 152 and later ratified their first New Jersey union contract in 2025. The WARN filing puts those jobs on a formal countdown and gives workers and local officials two months to reckon with what comes next.
New Jersey’s WARN law requires advance notice for large layoffs and plant closings, and the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development keeps a public archive of those filings by company, date and location. For Vineland, the notice marks a sharp turn for a business that had been framed as part of the city’s cannabis growth story just two years ago.
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