Weekly Pickups: Cannabis spirit and the latest date treat

Plus: Sichuan noodles and vegan cheddar crackers

Welcome back to Weekly Pickups!

We’re getting closer to the holidays, and you know what that means: gift guide season.

Next week, we’ll start releasing our (hyper-specific, rigorously curated) gift guides. If you have/know a genuinely giftable, unique product that you think we should include, hit us up at hello@expresscheckout.co this weekend for a final shot at consideration!

Until then, we’re excited to team up with Spring Cash for our favorite gift to give: cold hard cash (not really but also… really).

Following its $336 million raise from GB Bank and others, Spring Cash is giving CPG brands a 0% APR (up to $50K) advance on any of your unpaid retailer or distributor invoices.

It’s insanely easy to use: Just submit an invoice to their site, and Spring Cash’s AI approves invoices within six (6!!!) minutes and sends you money immediately.

Brands like Laurel’s Coffee, Supermush, Flock Foods, and Cloud 23 are using Spring Cash to get paid immediately for invoices from Costco, Target, Whole…