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Sep-2026
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Where to Buy
Hot Shotz is stocked at 114 licensed dispensaries across Washington, with the deepest coverage in Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver, and Everett. Search by ZIP code or city below to find the closest one, or filter by product type if you are after a specific format.
Market Insights Snapshot
Hot Shotz operated as a single-category brand in Beverage, holding a 100.0% mix in September 2026 while posting a -4.91% year-over-year sales change and a -5.25% month-over-month dip; average price rose 7.51% YoY to $5.72, indicating volume softness against a higher ticket. Within Washington Beverage, the brand sat at rank 11 for September 2026, a positioning that contrasts with the all-in category focus and the concurrent negative MoM and YoY trends; the thesis is that price-led mix concentration is not offsetting volume drag, leaving the brand vulnerable to mid-tier rank pressure.
The 100.0% Beverage dependence combined with a -4.91% YoY sales change and a -5.25% MoM decline implies concentration risk that reduces resilience to category swings, even as a 7.51% YoY price lift supports revenue per unit. Sitting at rank 11 in Washington while carrying a full Beverage mix suggests the path to improved positioning likely requires either incremental subsegment penetration or promotional efficiency to convert price gains into share, with the takeaway that September 2026 pricing traction is insufficient without volume recovery.
Competitive Landscape
Hot Shotz sits at #11 in WA Beverage in September 2026, down 1 position YoY from #10 and flat versus the prior three months at #10 to #11, while its historical peak was #7 in April 2025; meanwhile, Journeyman climbed from #2 to #1 with 36% YoY sales growth as Ray's Lemonade fell from #1 to #2 on a 26.6% YoY decline, and Blaze Soda advanced from #7 to #4 on 96.8% YoY growth, indicating that Hot Shotz’s slight rank erosion amid rapid competitor shifts implies share pressure concentrated at the top, and that regaining trajectory toward its April 2025 #7 peak will require intercepting the category’s trading-up dynamic rather than relying on incremental moves within the #10–#11 band.
Notable Products
Dragon Fruit Energy Shot (100mg THC, 2oz) posted the steepest drop in September 2026 at -16.8% MoM while sliding to rank 4, as Fruit Punch Energy Drink (100mg THC, 2oz) fell -18.8% MoM at rank 8, pointing to pressure on novelty flavors within the Shots and legacy drink variants. In contrast, Blue Raspberry Energy Drink (100mg THC, 2oz) in rank 1 grew 7.4% MoM and outperformed the CBD/THC 1:1 Watermelon Energy Drink (100mg CBD, 100mg THC, 2oz) at rank 3 with -10.9% MoM, and three of the top five are standard THC Beverage SKUs rather than minor-cannabinoid formats. With the THC/CBN Huckleberriez Energy Drink (100mg THC, 5mg CBN, 2oz) up 9.6% MoM at rank 9 while the THC/CBG 2:1 Golden Pineapple Energy Shot (100mg THC, 50mg CBG, 2oz) rose 5.8% MoM at rank 6, add-on cannabinoid experiments are growing but remain secondary to the leading THC core. The pattern implies Hot Shotz is consolidating around classic THC Energy Drinks with selective minor-cannabinoid support, suggesting a tilt toward fewer hero SKUs driving volume rather than a wide Shots-first push.
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.
