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More of Ontario’s cannabis retail stores will follow the lead of two outlets that are scaling back hours because they can’t keep enough product stocked, one industry watcher says.

But London’s three bricks-and-mortar marijuana stores — all of them open seven days a week — say they have ample supply and don’t plan to decrease operating hours.

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The Hobo Recreational Cannabis Store in Ottawa and Canna Cabana in Hamilton are cutting back their hours — closing one day of the week and reducing hours on others — in response to lack of supply.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if the other stores started doing the same thing,” said Michael Armstrong, a professor at Brock University’s Goodman School of Business who studies Canada’s cannabis industry.

Ontario’s 21 cannabis stores — four of the initial 25 still haven’t opened — were allowed to pre-order 100 kilograms of cannabis products prior to opening, with each outlet now allowed to buy 25 kilograms per week.