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Where to Buy
Nez is stocked at 31 licensed dispensaries across Illinois, with the deepest coverage in Chicago, Addison, Aurora, Belleville, and Carol Stream. Search by ZIP code or city below to find the closest one.
Market Insights Snapshot
Nez operated as a single-category brand in August 2026, with Flower accounting for 100.0% of sales and posting 63.5% year-over-year growth alongside 7.4% month-over-month growth. Average retail price rose 2.1% year over year to $44.06 while Flower remained the top category, and the brand’s Flower rank in Illinois sat at position 29. The pattern implies that Nez’s growth engine is concentrated in Flower, where volume expansion outpaced modest price inflation, and the brand’s rank indicates room to convert share gains within a crowded mid-tier cohort.
With all revenue tied to Flower and a 63.5% year-over-year lift versus a 7.4% month-over-month uptick, Nez is leaning into sustained organic demand rather than short-term promotions, as evidenced by only a 2.1% price increase. Holding rank 29 in Illinois while pricing at $44.06 suggests a mid-price positioning that could scale via wider assortment depth or pack-size strategy without eroding margin. The implication is that Nez’s category purity simplifies execution but caps cross-category defensiveness, so the current mix supports deeper penetration in Flower while leaving a deliberate on-ramp for adjacent categories if rank progression stalls.
Competitive Landscape
Nez sits at rank #29 in Illinois Flower in August 2026, improving 5 positions year over year from #34 while sliding 8 spots since May–July to #21 three-month average; against this backdrop, High Supply / Supply held at #1 year over year with a -10.1% sales change and The Botanist surged from #29 to #4 with a 482.1% YoY sales increase, indicating Nez’s April 2026 peak at #19 has not converted into sustained share as faster risers compress mid-pack slots.
Notable Products
White Rainbow (3.5g) delivered the standout move in August 2026 with +196.5% month-over-month and a rise to rank 1, indicating a sharp shift of demand toward larger Flower formats. White Rainbow (1g) also advanced at +77.6% MoM to rank 3 while Bolo Runtz (3.5g) climbed +54.9% MoM at rank 5, and four of the top ten are Flower SKUs from just two strain families, signaling consolidation around a few winning lines. In contrast, Black Maple #22 (3.5g) fell -19.4% MoM at rank 7 and Dulce de Uva (1g) declined -33.6% MoM at rank 9, suggesting weaker pull for secondary strains even as the category skews to premium cuts. The concentration of gains in White Rainbow formats alongside declines in trailing strains points to Nez tilting assortment and supply toward hero SKUs and larger sizes to capture velocity.
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.
