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Where to Buy
1/2 Zip / 1Zip is stocked at 38 licensed dispensaries across Illinois, with the deepest coverage in Chicago, East Peoria, Arlington Heights, Darien, and Elgin. Search by ZIP code or city below to find the closest one.
Market Insights Snapshot
In July 2026, 1/2 Zip / 1Zip operated as a single-category brand with Flower at 100.0% of sales, posting year-over-year sales growth of 229.6% while month-over-month sales declined 26.9%. The brand’s average price dropped 39.6% year over year to $60.36, coinciding with the Flower-only mix remaining at 100.0% share and a state-category rank of 44 in Illinois Flower. The pattern implies that 1/2 Zip / 1Zip is trading volume gains for price compression within a concentrated Flower strategy, using deeper pricing to scale share without diversifying the mix.
The combination of a rank of 44 in Illinois Flower and a 26.9% month-over-month sales decline, alongside a 229.6% year-over-year surge, indicates a volatility profile tied to promotion- or harvest-driven spikes rather than steady baseline demand. With Flower at 100.0% of sales and average price down 39.6% year over year, the brand’s positioning skews toward value capture in Flower rather than premium margin or cross-category insulation, implying that future stability will depend on smoothing promotional cadence and selectively expanding beyond Flower to mitigate rank sensitivity.
Competitive Landscape
1/2 Zip / 1Zip sits at rank #44 in Illinois Flower in July 2026 after improving 19 positions year over year from #63, while slipping 3 spots from April 2026’s #47 to July 2026’s #44 and coming off a peak of #41 in June 2026; in contrast, High Supply / Supply held #1 with a -3.0% YoY sales change and &Shine climbed from #8 to #4 with an 87.4% YoY increase, indicating that 1/2 Zip / 1Zip’s steady YoY rank gain alongside a modest three-rank quarter shift points to gradual share recovery but with limited momentum against faster-rising incumbents.
Notable Products
Disco Fries Popcorn (14g) posted the standout move with a 167.9% month-over-month surge to $19,819, seizing rank 1, while Grand Master Sexy (14g) fell 14.9% to rank 10, signaling volatility at the tail. Two SKUs logged steep declines under -50% as Black Cherry Buff (14g) dropped 51.5% to rank 6 and Murder Mittens Ground (14g) slid 52.9% to rank 7, yet the core still skews toward winners with Disco Fries (14g) up 6.4% at rank 2 and Skor Ground Flower (14g) up 8.7% at rank 4. With all top-10 items in Flower and four of the top five anchored by ground or popcorn formats, the mix implies 1/2 Zip / 1Zip is consolidating around value-oriented, larger-format Flower that can swing share rapidly on promo or distribution shifts.
Top Selling Cannabis Brands
Data for this report comes from real-time sales reporting by participating cannabis retailers via their point-of-sale systems, which are linked up with Headset’s business intelligence software. Headset’s data is very reliable, as it comes digitally direct from our partner retailers. However, the potential does exist for misreporting in the instance of duplicates, incorrectly classified products, inaccurate entry of products into point-of-sale systems, or even simple human error at the point of purchase. Thus, there is a slight margin of error to consider. Brands listed on this page are ranked in the top twenty within the market and product category by total retail sales volume.
