Why are there so many vape shops.

[ReginaRMT]

Why do we need so many vape shops on one street alone. Just wondering after going for a drive this morning.  Along one street I could see 6 different stores all within a few blocks of two high schools. Is this a thing in other cities in Canada?

[Michael_L]

When weed was legalized we had 3 shops within a block of each other in my parents' neighbourhood.  It's dependent both on the area itself (some places will have the right clients for that product) and sometimes just that it's a new-ish business idea and lots of people get excited about it. 

Give it a year or two and the best shops will survive and the bad ones will die off.  (I hope.)  I'm not a vape person so I don't understand the desire to puff smoke of any kind anyway...

[ReginaRMT]

Yes exactly weed legalization was part of it for sure. It just seems wrong to have these stores so close to elementary and high schools. I guess kids like to smell of grape oil vapour..gross in my books. This is just all a a question of why. Maybe better than smoking cigarettes I guess. I do not smoke any kind of smoke-able product of any kind.