Case Study No. 02
Cannabis Packaging · E-Commerce · Ohio

Grove
Bags
TerpLoc

A patented packaging company that keeps cannabis fresh from harvest to sale, no burping, no babysitting. We rebuilt their online store to sell the science behind the bag, not just the bag itself.

2020 Year
8 wk Timeline
Shopify Platform
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Grove Bags MacBook mockup
Overview

The science first.
The sell follows.

Grove Bags didn't need convincing that their product works, growers, extractors, and dispensaries already knew that. What they needed was a store that could carry a genuinely technical product line, TerpLoc® barrier film, auto-curing pouches, SafeVac rolls, without drowning customers in jargon or slowing down the checkout for someone who just wants a case of ounce pouches by Friday.

We rebuilt the site around three very different buyers: the home grower ordering a single sleeve, the processor ordering pallets, and the dispensary chasing a custom branded run. Same catalog, three completely different paths through it. The copy leans into what actually matters to a cultivator, weight retention, terpene loss, shelf stability, instead of generic e-commerce filler.

Shopify Custom Theme Product Filtering B2B Ordering SEO Mobile First
Client
Grove Bags
Year
2020
Role
Design & Development
Industry
Cannabis Packaging · Bedford Heights, OH
Deliverables
Store Redesign, Shopify Theme Build, Catalog Architecture, SEO Setup
Design: Desktop
Homepage, The Perfect Cannabis Climate Shop by Category, Pouches, Liners, SafeVac
Process

How it came together

Grove Bags sits at an odd intersection, industrial packaging science sold through a consumer storefront. Getting that balance right took three phases, none of which we rushed.

01
Discovery

Before touching layout, we sat with the Grove Bags team to understand TerpLoc® itself, how the film actually manages moisture and oxygen, and why a cultivator cares about that at 2am during a harvest. That vocabulary became the backbone of every product page.

02
Design

We moved the palette away from generic dispensary green-on-white and toward something closer to the product itself, dark, earthy, a little industrial. Photography of the actual bag texture and zipper detail replaced stock cannabis imagery throughout.

03
Development

Built on Shopify with a custom theme to handle a genuinely large catalog, single pouches, bulk cases, and made-to-order custom runs, without the site feeling cluttered. Filtering by user type (cultivator, distributor, dispensary) was baked into navigation from day one.

Design: Mobile & Details
Mobile, TerpLoc Technology Mobile, Homepage Mobile, Shop by Category
We stopped losing a third of our terpenes to bad storage the day we switched. The new site actually explains why the bag works instead of just asking you to trust it.
Early Beta Customer · Licensed Cultivator
Results

The outcome

Post-launch, Grove Bags saw a real shift in how the catalog performed, fewer abandoned carts on the bulk-case pages, more time spent on the technology explainer, and a checkout that no longer felt like an afterthought bolted onto a science project.

2.4×
Bulk order increase
40+
SKUs organized
96
Pagespeed score
8wk
Delivery time
Gallery
Tablet, Product Catalog Grove Bags color code system Montserrat family typography