Chains Take Less Than 10% of Southern Tier Weed Sales

Chain stores took 9.6% of Southern Tier dispensary sales from January 1 through October 1, against 37% statewide. The region's three biggest stores, Sacred Bloom, Union Chill Corning and Greenery Spot, are all independents.

The Southern Tier's 28 dispensaries sold an estimated $43.2M from January 1 to October 1, 2026. Here's every store, ranked by sales, with the county breakdown and who runs the stores.

Every Southern Tier store's region, county and statewide rank: https://newyork420week.com/map

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:25 By the numbers
0:50 The finding
1:07 By county
1:26 How the stores stack up
1:46 Top 10
2:07 Ranked 11–20
2:24 Who runs the stores
2:43 Where it ranks in NY
2:55 The full map

Sources
Sales: Lit Alerts New York market data set, Jan 1 – Oct 1, 2026 (estimates built from public menu sampling, not point-of-sale data).
Store locations: NY Office of Cannabis Management, Current OCM Licenses — https://data.ny.gov/Economic-Development/Current-OCM-Licenses/jskf-tt3q
Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 county estimates — https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-counties-total.html

Part of the series "Where New York's $1.29 Billion Goes: Every Dispensary Ranked by Region."
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