- E-commerce giant Shopify will handle online cannabis sales for the province of Ontario, Canada, in partnership with the provincially run Ontario Cannabis Retail Corp.
- Cannabis in Ontario will be sold solely through OCRC's stores and online platform.
- It's a huge market: Ontario has 13.6 million people, including Toronto.
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Shopify will handle online sales for the province of Ontario's legal cannabis market, in partnership with the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation.
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The e-commerce giant will handle online sales for the Canadian province of Ontario's cannabis market in partnership with the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corp., the Canadian Press reports.
The OCRC plans on opening 80 cannabis stores by the summer of 2019, with another 150 coming by 2020. Online sales will help fill gaps in smaller and more remote towns where the OCRC does not plan to open outlets.
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