Growth
VIP Smoke Shop against its category
The biggest tracked US vape & tobacco shops by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks VIP Smoke Shop's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smoker Friendly | +0.2% |
| 2 | Wild Bill's Tobacco | +10.5% |
| 3 | Tobacco Connection | +3.1% |
| 4 | Big Smoke | +9.3% |
| 5 | Tobacco Hut & Vape | +16.3% |
| 6 | Tobacco & Vape | -3.1% |
| 7 | Tobacco King and Vape | -15.5% |
| 8 | Tobacco Hut | +11.1% |
| 9 | Smoke Shop | +5.9% |
| 10 | Vape City | +4.5% |
| 20 | VIP Smoke Shop | -26.7% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
70 tracked VIP Smoke Shop locations across 13 US states. Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana hold 76% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- Ohio 35
- Kentucky 13
- Indiana 5
- Florida 4
- California 2
- Illinois 2
- Michigan 2
- Nebraska 2
- Arkansas 1
- Mississippi 1
- New Jersey 1
- New York 1
- Pennsylvania 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at VIP Smoke Shop
Tracked chains VIP Smoke Shop customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
Cold Spring
95
Mr Vapor Smoke Shop
69
Florence Mall
64
Lord Smoke Shop
57
IM Dazed
54
Trend Smoke and Vape
52
Lefty's Tobacco Plus
44
Alexandria Vapors & Tobacco LLC
42
Kroger
40
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