Business is booming at Salmon Armâs first legal cannabis store.
Green Canoe Cannabis, which shares a building with Canoe Village Market, served customers for a full day Monday, March 11 after a soft opening the day before.
Owner Jeff Phillips said a couple of hundred people came through the storeâs doors on Sunday, and business remained steady on Monday.
Because the store is the first one to complete the licensing process and open its doors in Salmon Arm, and is one of only 14 privately-owned, operational cannabis stores in the province, the customers who visited were both numerous and from a variety of places.
Phillips and his staff said people from as far away as Sicamous and Revelstoke came to the store on opening day. An older couple from Saskatoon also came in after hearing about the opening while stopping for gas.
âPeople are thrilled,â Phillips said.
He noted there has been no negative feedback to the storeâs presence in Canoe so far.
Phillips said he wouldnât call the application process smooth, but recognized it is new to everyone involved, including the B.C. government staff who he described as very helpful. He said it was a five-month process to get the store open.
Green Canoe Cannabis is open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m., six days a week and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.
jim.elliot@saobserver.net
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