Mountain Top Takes Shelf Space

It easy to write off the legacy producers. Too old. Too slow. Too comfortable. But shelves have a way of telling the truth, and right now the shelf is saying Mountain Top isn’t done yet.

Two months of back on the shelves tell a quiet but important story. In a category crowded with flashier names and louder marketing, for one chain Mountain Top has moved past Bloom—not by noise, but by sell-through.

Scorebaord: <30

• Mountain Top: 420

• Bloom: 404

• Elevated: 503

For years, Bloom has been one of the brands you couldnt afford not to carry; sleek devices, consistent strains. At one time some people were convinced brands like O-Pen would come and eat Blooms lunch, you can guess how that went.

Same counter. Same budtenders. Same customers. However where Bloom has a national brand behind them, Mountain Top is operating bare bones, just like they started.

Aggressive Expension

Mountain Top didn’t get back onto shelves by pitching product. They got there by fixing a problem stores didnt even know they had.

With help from CDMs Data sets, the process starts by looking at store menus and spotting gaps. Retailers hear “try this” all day. That noise doesn’t fly. Walking in with a solution does.

In this case, the gap was resin vapes. Limited selection, inconsistent supply.

Field Report

Asking the budtenders what’s driving it and the answers don’t wander. Packaging that explains itself. Terpenes listed clearly, not buried or romanticized. The product doesn’t posture—it just shows up honest. The flavor is clean, natural, and familiar in the right way. And at a reasonable MSRP, it doesn’t demand loyalty through hype or punish the wallet for curiosity.

This isn’t a hit piece on Bloom, or a warning to Dime or Elevated. It’s a reminder that its not the size of the dog in the fight, but the fight in dog that matters.