Retail type: Private retailers and government-run retailers will be allowed, with online sales overseen by the government's liquor agency.
The prairie province has been praised for putting its cannabis retail plan together early, and for focusing on private retailers, the same approach it takes on the sale of alcohol.
Sam Tanzer, a founder of an online store called Embrace Hearing (where prices run from $399 to $899), said that private retailers had to raise prices to cover fixed costs.
M&S and Debenhams have seen their shares fall this week, while there will be worries that some private retailers will have been weakened.
Michele Simon, a public health lawyer and author of "Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back," said private retailers can play an important role in pushing suppliers toward better practices.
A change in the state's 78-year-old sales system for liquor, from state-controlled stores to private retailers — approved by voters last fall and now in the home stretch of a chaotic, deadline-driven start on Friday, the first day of June — is pushing some places toward a palate-parching glimpse of Prohibition.
Page 14 THE END OF A DRY SPELL A change in Washington State's 78-year-old sales system for liquor, from state-controlled stores to private retailers -- approved by voters last fall and now in the home stretch of a chaotic, deadline-driven start on June 1 -- is pushing some places toward a palate-parching glimpse of Prohibition.
Sageworks analyst Libby Bierman said consumers' apprehension about the economy couldn't have come at a worse time for private retailers.
Adults over the age of 19 in the province of around 530,000 people will be allowed to buy their recreational cannabis from stores run by private retailers.
Private retailers are growing sales at an annual rate of less than 1percentt year to date - the lowest annual rate since 2009.
