British Columbian cannabis stores are bracing for emptier shelves after a strike stopped the province's pot distribution centre from shipping out product.
The British Columbia General Employees' Union , which represents about 33,000 public-service workers across B.C., set up picket lines at four BC Liquor Distribution Branch wholesale and distribution centres Monday.
The province was preparing to allow cannabis stores to accept direct deliveries of product from licensed producers long before the strike began, but until those deliveries start, stores have no choice but to get their products from the BCLDB. The BCLDB did not respond to a request for comment. "It just came as a bit of a shock and...now the concern is how long before they start delivering to us so that we don't start running out of products?" he said.
"B.C. consumers are not going to stop buying cannabis during this dispute, rather they are simply going to lose access to safe, tested, legal products." “For the time being we are managing the situation by reallocating inventory between our British Columbia stores, but if the job action is not resolved within the next 10 days, we could face inventory issues," said senior vice-president of corporate and public affairs Omar Khan, in an email.
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