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Aug-2026
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Where to Buy
Sunset Connect is stocked at 154 licensed dispensaries across California, with the deepest coverage in Sacramento, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Rosa, and Los Angeles. 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, Sunset Connect operated as a single-category brand with Pre-Roll accounting for 100.0% of sales, while category-level sales declined 18.1% year over year and 7.1% month over month; average price rose 2.3% YoY to $4.26 and held flat MoM within rounding. With rank at 25 in California Pre-Roll and no diversification beyond this category, the pattern implies concentration risk: a full reliance on Pre-Roll amplified the 18.1% YoY and 7.1% MoM volume contractions into total-brand declines.
The shift toward a slightly higher average price (+2.3% YoY) alongside a 7.1% MoM sales contraction and 25th rank in California suggests the brand is nudging up price while ceding demand at the margin, positioning Sunset Connect closer to value-plus rather than true value or premium tiers in Pre-Roll. Given 100.0% category concentration and a 14.8% 24-month sales decline against an 18.1% YoY decrease, the trajectory implies limited insulation from category volatility and indicates that near-term positioning depends more on mix and pack-size strategy within Pre-Roll than on cross-category hedging.
Competitive Landscape
Sunset Connect ranks #25 in CA Pre-Roll in August 2026, down 2 positions year over year from #23, while improving 1 position versus three months ago from #26; the brand’s peak of #19 in February 2025 marks a 6-rank slide from its high. In contrast, Jeeter held at #1 year over year (from #1 to #1) and STIIIZY maintained #2 year over year (from #2 to #2), whereas Sluggers Hit slipped from #4 to #5; this mix of stability at the top and minor shuffling below implies Sunset Connect’s downward YoY rank change amid a modest recent uptick is more about losing ground to entrenched leaders than about short-term volatility, suggesting the trajectory points to continued mid-tier positioning unless share gains accelerate.
Notable Products
Z Line Pie Pre-Roll (1g) posted the steepest movement in August 2026 with a -34.6% month-over-month change and still held rank 9, while Purple Rainbow Pre-Roll (1g) fell -21.1% at rank 7. In contrast, Doobie Nights Pre-Roll (1g) climbed +42.0% to rank 1, and Doob Nation Pre-Roll (1g) rose +36.8% at rank 2, indicating gains at the top even as mid-pack SKUs contracted. Eight of the top ten are Pre-Roll SKUs, and the rank spread from 1 to 10 inside one category alongside a single-dollar anchor near $49,053 suggests portfolio concentration where volatility at the lower ranks offsets, but does not derail, a push toward flagship-led volume consolidation.
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.
