With the opening of its 100th branch, SQDC aims to create a new shopping experience with product display islands, information screens and a brighter, more user-friendly space. As Alban Troja, Director of Operations, explains: “We're working on pushing the experience further for our next branches. We're thinking about strategies to make the customer's path as free as possible. This could mean being able to move around and complete a transaction on the floor, rather than on a piece of furniture behind the tills.”

The dynamics of the Canadian cannabis market seems to be finally changing and could go from a buyer's market to a seller's market. This could be a lifesaver for a large number of growers, especially small businesses facing numerous financial challenges. As Steve Clark, founder of the Canadian Cannabis Exchange, explains: “We are seeing domestic supply shrinking in a number of ways. The closures of growing facilities and reduction of square footage of canopy in Canada. The companies who were producing for their own internal supply in these facilities have flipped from net sellers to net buyers, (further taking supply off the market), and the pull from export into intensive markets is reducing overall flower availability.”