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1.5%
1.5% -- shrinkage rate for specialty retail (smoke shops) (2025)
Industry shrinkage estimates for specialty retail run between 1.5 and 3 percent of revenue.
- Reported as an industry estimate range of 1.5% to 3% of revenue
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1.5%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
35
Freshness
95
Source
munchmakers.com
Primary
Tier C
https://www.munchmakers.com/blog/smoke-shop-inventory-management-guide ↗
Source Article
Smoke Shop Inventory Management Guide | MunchMakers Blog
The cash flow problem hiding in your stockroom
Most smoke shop owners I've talked to know which products sell and roughly how fast. What they're often less clear on is how much cash is sitting in slow-moving inventory, how much product is being reordered out of habit rather than data, and what their…
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munchmakers.com
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Range of 1.5-3% cited as industry estimate; midpoint used. Source is a vendor blog citing unspecified industry estimates.
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specialty retail (smoke shops): 1.5% shrinkage rate. Source: munchmakers.com (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/smoke-shop-shrinkage-revenue-2025
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