fire  flower holdings corps shares slipped early tuesday after the cannabis retailers thirdquarter loss widened sharply as revenue declined and costs jumped in morning trading the stock was 23 lower at c125 for a drop of 75 so far this year fire  flowers loss widened to 281 million canadian dollars 206 million or c062 a share for the three months ended oct 29 from a loss of c2 million or c006 a share a year earlier analysts polled by factset had penciled in a loss of c024 a share based on four estimates restructuring impairment and other costs climbed to c179 million for the quarter against c97 million a year earlier revenue for the quarter fell to c438 million from c454 million last year ahead of the c428 million analysts were expecting fire  flower had 90 retail stores open and operating at the end of october compared with 92 at the end of the fiscal second quarter and 97 stores at the end of october 2021 still fire  flower said that revenue for the latest quarter was up 76 from the prior quarter and average annual sales per store increased 15 from the quarter before while the companys gross margin widened thanks to a member pricing program fire  flower which last month appointed john chou as its interim chief financial officer following the resignation of judy adams to take up the finance chief post at another company has been moving to expand a strategic relationship with investor alimentation couchetard inc opening cannabis shops at couchetards circle k convenience stores couchetard which has a roughly 35 stake in fire  flower recently extended its support to the cannabis company with plans for a c11 million loan and c5 million private placement and fire  flower earlier this year named former couchetard senior vice president of operations stephane trudel as its chief executive