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Sep-2026
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Where to Buy
Hot Sugar is stocked at 205 licensed dispensaries across Washington, California, and Maryland, 203 of them in Washington, with the deepest coverage in Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Vancouver, and Everett. Search by ZIP code or city below to find the closest one.
Market Insights Snapshot
Hot Sugar operated as a single-category brand in September 2026, with Edible accounting for 100.0% of sales and a rank of 3 within Edible in Washington. Within that sole category focus, year-over-year sales grew 1.7% while month-over-month sales fell 3.0%, and average price declined 2.4% YoY alongside a 24-month sales lift of 4.0%; together these shifts imply a price-led volume strategy kept annual growth positive but left recent monthly momentum soft within a concentrated portfolio.
The all-in Edible concentration at 100.0% and a rank of 3 suggest defensible placement in the category, but the -3.0% MoM change paired with a -2.4% YoY average price shift indicates sensitivity to near-term promotional or mix pressure; sustaining the 1.7% YoY sales increase with a 4.0% 24-month gain implies the brand’s positioning leans on scale and repeat in Edibles rather than cross-category insulation, so stabilization likely depends on tightening price-pack architecture and seasonal cadence within Edibles rather than diversification.
Competitive Landscape
Hot Sugar sits at rank #3 in WA Edible in September 2026 with no year-over-year rank change from #3 in September 2025, and no three-month movement from #3 in June 2026; meanwhile, Wyld holds #1 with a 6.0% year-over-year sales gain while Green Revolution remains #2 with a 3.1% year-over-year sales decline, indicating the gap above Hot Sugar may be widening versus the category leader but narrowing versus the runner-up. With Journeyman steady at #4 and up 4.7% year over year, and Craft Elixirs at #5 with a 1.4% decline, Hot Sugar’s stationary rank at its peak position of #3 in September 2026 implies a durable middle-anchor: upward mobility will likely require outpacing the #2 brand’s negative 3.1% trend by several percentage points while defending against a 4.7% tailwind from #4.
Notable Products
Sour Watermelon Fruit Drop 10-Pack (100mg) led the downturn with an 83.3% month-over-month decline while still sitting at rank 1, and Peach Mango Fruit Drop 10-Pack (100mg) fell 14.9% at rank 2; in contrast, Indica Green Apple Live Resin Gummies 10-Pack (100mg) rose 1.7% at rank 3. Eight of the top ten are Edible SKUs, and Sativa Golden Pineapple Live Resin Gummiez 10-Pack (100mg) slipped 12.7% to rank 7 while the CBN/THC 1:1 Huckleberry Gummies 10-Pack (100mg CBN, 100mg THC) eased 2.7% at rank 4, implying a pivot from sugar-drop fruit flavors toward live resin and functional formats even as the flagship Fruit Drop line sheds share.
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.
