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Market Insights Snapshot
Palmetto’s August 2026 mix concentrates in Pre-Roll at 50.4% share (ranked 67 in Pre-Roll within Saskatchewan), with Flower at 28.7%, Beverage at 18.2%, and Vapor Pens at 2.7%; across the brand, sales fell 81.1% year over year while average price declined 51.1%. Within categories, Pre-Roll sales were down 59.1% year over year but up 18.7% month over month, Flower dropped 86.1% year over year and 23.7% month over month, Beverage rose 19.3% year over year but slipped 6.0% month over month, and Vapor Pens contracted 98.5% year over year and 38.3% month over month; the anchor is BC, where the top category is Pre-Roll, implying the portfolio is pivoting toward faster-turn, lower-ticket formats to stabilize volumes despite deep price compression.
The shift toward Pre-Roll gaining 18.7% month over month while Flower retreats 23.7% month over month, alongside Beverage’s 19.3% year-over-year growth, indicates a repositioning from high-ticket inhalables toward value-accessible, convenience-led products; this is reinforced by a 51.1% average price drop that widens the accessible price ladder. With Vapor Pens now only 2.7% of mix after a 98.5% year-over-year decline and Pre-Roll holding a 50.4% share at a Saskatchewan rank of 67, Palmetto’s near-term competitive path is to lean into Pre-Roll and Beverage to capture price-sensitive trips while de-emphasizing premium Flower, which currently drags mix with an 86.1% year-over-year decline.
Competitive Landscape
Palmetto sits at rank 68 in August 2026, falling 11 positions year over year from rank 57 and slipping 1 place versus May 2026’s rank 69, while remaining far from its peak rank 40 reached in November 2024; meanwhile, Back Forty / Back 40 Cannabis climbed from rank 17 to rank 1 alongside a 237.7% year-over-year sales gain, and General Admission eased from rank 1 to rank 2 with a 10.7% sales decline, indicating that Palmetto’s downward rank shift against an aggressively ascending leader and a softening incumbent points to share being redistributed toward outsized growers rather than stabilizing within the mid-pack.

Notable Products
Orange Bud Blunt 5-Pack (2g) posted the steepest decline in August 2026 at -53.8% MoM, slipping to rank 8, while Apple Jack (28g) fell -25.1% to rank 6, signaling a pullback in legacy inhalables. Orange Vanilla Cream Soda (10mg THC, 355ml) held rank 1 despite a -6.0% MoM dip, and Pals - Sasquatch Sap Pre-Roll 10-Pack (4g) climbed +20.7% at rank 2, indicating mixed momentum across formats. With five of the top ten in Pre-Rolls, the category is consolidating around value multi-packs even as select SKUs retrench, implying Palmetto is tilting assortment and promotion toward multi-pack inhalables while allowing weaker variants to cycle down.
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.







