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Where to Buy
St Ides is stocked at 672 licensed dispensaries across California, Minnesota, and New Jersey, 662 of them in California, with the deepest coverage in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, and Long Beach. 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
In August 2026, St Ides concentrated 96.35% of sales in Beverage, holding rank 1 in Beverage in California, while Pre-Roll accounted for 3.13% and Edible 0.51%. Beverage grew 11.81% year over year but fell 5.58% month over month, Pre-Roll declined 4.20% year over year and 26.97% month over month, and Edible surged 2,450.46% year over year with an 883.58% month-over-month jump. Despite a 0.92% year-over-year rise in average price to $7.42, category mix shifts indicate volume, not pricing, drove most movement; the pattern implies St Ides is tethered to Beverage cycles while using Edible as a small but rapidly scaling test bed.
The mix evolution implies a tightening single-category identity: dominance in Beverage (rank 1) pairs with negative month-over-month trajectories in both Beverage (-5.58%) and Pre-Roll (-26.97%), signaling higher exposure to short-term Beverage softness than to diversification buffers. Conversely, the Edible spike (883.58% month over month and 2,450.46% year over year) from a 0.51% share base suggests low-risk optionality rather than a pivot, and the 11.81% Beverage year-over-year growth alongside an 11.77% brand-level year-over-year lift indicates core Beverage is doing the heavy lifting. The implication is that near-term positioning remains Beverage-led with concentrated share capture, while Edible serves as a niche entry point that could modestly de-risk seasonality if scaled without diluting the 96.35% Beverage anchor.
Competitive Landscape
St Ides sits at rank #1 in CA Beverage in August 2026 with no year-over-year rank change from #1, and no three-month movement from #1 to #1, indicating stable leadership while the category’s chase pack churns; Uncle Arnie's holds at #2 year over year with a 26.0% sales lift, and CANN Social Tonics climbed from #9 to #5 on 286.3% YoY growth, while Almora Farms advanced from #6 to #4 with 50.5% YoY growth; despite Not Your Father's Root Beer remaining at #3 on 39.8% YoY growth, the unchanged #1-to-#1 position for St Ides alongside multiple double-digit climbers at #4 and #5 implies the brand’s moat currently holds but the gap may narrow if velocity doesn’t outpace these faster risers.
Notable Products
Energy Blast Caffeine Shot (100mg THC, 4oz) posted the steepest decline in August 2026 at -18.0% MoM while sitting at rank 10, and Blue Razz Shot (100mg THC, 4oz) also contracted -10.2% at rank 9; by contrast, THC/CBN 5:1 Nighttime Berry Hibiscus Iced High Tea (100mg THC, 20mg CBN, 12oz, 355ml) inched up +0.9% at rank 7. Wild Raspberry Iced High Tea (100mg THC, 12oz, 355ml) held rank 1 despite a -4.5% MoM dip, and Georgia Peach High Tea (100mg THC, 12oz, 355ml) stayed at rank 2 with a -1.3% move; with eight of the top ten being High Tea beverages, concentration in the tea format offsets shot weakness. Maui Mango Infused High Tea (100mg THC, 12oz, 355ml) fell -11.2% at rank 4 while CBG/THC 1:5 Lucky Lemon High Tea (20mg CBG, 100mg THC, 12oz) ticked +0.3% at rank 6, indicating flavor-specific volatility within a stable base format. The pattern implies St Ides is anchored in core 12oz High Tea SKUs while the 4oz shots are eroding, pointing to a need to prioritize tea-led innovation over shot-line expansion.
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.
