Deep Six CBD has announced that it will carry HHC and THC-O products in all of its current stores. “We’re excited to start this new expansion of product in our stores,” said Nick Kruczaj, president of Deep Six CBD. “We hear constant feedback from consumers about how their lives have been improved by these new…

Cajun Cigar Czar and WestCann have reached an agreement to sell and distribute Laika hemp products — a subsidiary of WestCann — in brick-and-mortar stores throughout the U.S. Dustin Prudhomme, CEO of Cajun Cigar Czar, has created a network of 500 retail partners nationwide for the distribution of premium handmade cigars. This attracted the attention…

Health & wellness CBD company cbdMD announced an expansion in product offerings online and in over 840 retail GNC stores nationwide. CbdMD first partnered with GNC in August 2020, and included a roll-out of three topical SKUs at under 100 retail stores nationwide. Due to consumer receptivity and overall purchasing performance, cbdMD is adding an…

Calgary, Alberta-based High Tide Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Fab CBD, has launched a CBD Subscribe-and-Save discount program in the United States. The company is a long established retail-focused cannabis company with bricks-and-mortar as well as global e-commerce assets. Under the program, customers will be able to customize their orders each month to suit their…

AUER CBD, the San Diego-based health and wellness superstore and online retailer, has officially opened a third location in San Diego. Situated at 2971 India Street, the new superstore is just a 10-minute drive away from popular landmarks and locations, including Harbor Island, San Diego Zoo, San Diego International Airport and the Gaslamp Quarter. Continued…

Specialty carrier of nutritional products and one of the nation’s largest retailers of cannabidiol (CBD) products, The Vitamin Shoppe announced that its CEO Sharon Leite will be featured in the upcoming new season of the Emmy-Award winning series “Undercover Boss.” The Vitamin Shoppe episode is scheduled to air on Friday, Jan. 21, from 8:00-9:00 p.m.…

Boston-based Boston Hemp Inc. is known for some of the most innovative products on the market within the hemp trade and it has made a splash within the industry, launching its new line of hemp-derived HHC products that ranges from concentrates to edibles. So, what is HHC? HHC – or hexahydrocannabinol – was first created…

Hemp and cannabis manufacturer and retailer Curaleaf Holdings Inc. will acquire Tryke Cos., a privately held vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis operator, in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $286 million. Tryke operates Reef Dispensaries and manufactures the Reef Dispensaries product brand. Tryke has refined processes to craft an ever-evolving selection of products and…

Charlotte’s Web Holdings Inc. is expanding its retail distribution in California following the Oct. 6, passage of Assembly Bill 45, which formally permits retail sale of products containing hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD), including dietary supplements, topicals, over-the-counter and pet products. Following AB 45’s passage, the company expects California retailers to expand or begin receiving product shipments…

St. Louis-based CBD superstore The Green Dragon CBD is challenging other industry retailers to start thinking about their brand and product vetting processes while keeping the customer at the forefront of the business. Following its first full year of business growth, in the last six months the company has doubled the brands it offers in-store…

When I began in this business many years ago, a typical convenience store was pretty simple — no matter what part of the country I was visiting. Whether it was a convenience store chain, like Total (remember them?) or an independent, the assortment was universal, particularly when it came to categories. Every store was focused…

Convenience chain Circle K will be the brick-and-mortar outlet for diversified cannabis, hemp and vaporization company Canopy Growth Corp.’s first CBD vape, called whisl. The new line, which launched this week at Canopy Growth’s online store, will be available on store shelves starting Oct. 1, at more than 3,000 Circle K convenience stores nationwide. The…

The U.S. Hemp Roundtable is reporting that a final deal has been reached with California Gov. Gavin Newsom to move to final passage AB 45, a long term effort to explicitly permit the retail sale of hemp-derived extracts such as CBD in the state. A highlight of the compromise was the removal of language to…

The pet CBD products market is set to achieve $561 million in sales in 2021, up 30% from 2020, and is expected to reach $1.1 billion in 2026, representing a 15% compound annual growth rate. This was one of the best-performing product types in 2020, aided by national pet chains Petco and PetSmart starting to…

When you think about ways you can meet your customers’ health needs, you may immediately think of offering options like natural foods, clean labels, fresh options and products that are low in sugar or sodium — “health foods,” in other words, many of which are focused on physical health and weight loss. But for the…

The eventual possibility of selling cannabis is highly appealing to many convenience store retailers. With typical declines in tobacco sales, more fuel-efficient and electric cars impacting fuel volume, and the pandemic impacting foot traffic, this opportunity cannot come fast enough. Currently, the sale of cannabis is fully legal in 17 states and Washington, D.C., and…

For the first time in its 44-year history, omni-channel specialty retailer of nutritional and CBD wellness products The Vitamin Shoppe will partner with business owners to operate franchise stores. Known primarily for connecting consumers with health, wellness and dietary supplements brands, The Vitamin Shoppe and its affiliated Super Supplements banner have been at the forefront…

On Thursday, CStore Decisions hosted a CBD-focused webinar for convenience retailers, “Success in CBD: What C-Stores Need to Know,” featuring E-Alternative Solutions (EAS) Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer Chris Howard and Director of Trade Marketing Mike Sullivan, as well as Brad Campbell, category leader of tobacco & CBD for Altoona, Pa.-based c-store…

Cannabis retail traffic was up 9.5%, and sales rebounded 8.4% year-over-year on 4/20, according to Cova Software, the largest Cannabis point-of-sale (POS) company in North America. While major outages plagued several big POS systems, Cova reported its fourth straight year of perfect uptime (100%) and benchmark transaction speeds (1.4 seconds). During peak hours on 4/20,…

Canopy Growth Corp., a cannabis, CBD and vaporization device company, announced alcohol distributor Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits as the distribution partner for its U.S. portfolio of CBD-infused beverages. This partnership announcement follows the recent launch of Quatreau, Canopy’s first line of CBD-infused beverages sold in the U.S. market. “Through this groundbreaking partnership, we will…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie recently announced an agreement on legislation (S.854-A/A.1248-A) to legalize adult use of cannabis in the state. The bill will establish the Office of Cannabis Management to implement a comprehensive regulatory framework that would cover medical, adult-use and cannabinoid hemp. The…

Florida’s Natural Life retail stores is about to more than double its store count. The eight-outlet retailer announced this week that it will open 10 more stores in Florida in 2021 thanks to a joint venture with Virtual Medical International, a whole health wellness company in the hemp-derived CBD sector. Natural Life as a company…

Circle K stores across Texas are now offering Caliper, a leading brand of clinically substantiated dissolvable CBD powders, in more than 600 outlets. Caliper’s flagship product, Caliper CBD, is a flavorless dissolvable powder that can be added to any food or beverage, which makes it easy to incorporate into consumers’ daily routines. Caliper boasts that…

C-store chain Yesway is making a big statement in the CBD space by adding four new packaged beverage brands with 14 new SKUs. The innovative convenience store chain now has the largest assortment of CBD beverages in the convenience store industry. The new brands being introduced are Kill Cliff, Defy, Weller and CBD Living Sparkling…

  VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Canna Hemp parent company, 1933 Industries Inc., announced it has reached a one-year agreement to distribute the Canna Hemp line of wellness products in conjunction with U.S. CBD products retailer CBD Plus for the marketing and sale of Canna Hemp products in CBD Plus corporate-owned and franchisee brick-and-mortar retail stores.…