The Canadian online cannabis stores powered by Shopify's e-commerce software are collectively processing more than 100 orders per minute, the Ottawa-based company said, an indication of the high demand for newly-legal pot. Millions of site visitsThese online stores have seen "millions of visitors" from Canada and around the world in the hours since they went live at 12:01 a.m. local time. Supply issues alreadyDemand was high for many government online stores including AlbertaCannabis.org, which needed to place customers in a virtual queue shortly after midnight to avoid an outage. Some cannabis products are already out of stock on Alberta's new legal cannabis online store. "It's not as big as Black Friday, but it's definitely a big day ... these are big stores with consistent, large volume going through them.

Source: CBC News October 17, 2018 17:48 UTC