A product-by-product comparison of Quality Control NY (Brighton Beach, Brooklyn) against 80 other Kings County cannabis dispensaries — and its closest Southern Brooklyn neighbors specifically — to see how its prices and selection stack up.
Quality Control isn’t wildly overpriced on any one thing — it’s a little high on nearly everything. Every major category sits above the Brooklyn median, with the biggest gaps on edibles, infused flower, beverages and vape pods.
Of 663 comparable products…
Nearly half of all comparable items sit 10–20% over the market — a consistent, store-wide markup rather than a few outliers.
| Product | QC | Market | Over |
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Quality Control carries 1,023 products, well above the Brooklyn median of 380 and inside the top 10 of 81 stores. That’s a real asset for keeping shoppers — but several of its closest competitors carry just as much, so depth alone won’t set it apart.
The stores a Quality Control shopper can most easily walk or drive to instead sit along Coney Island Avenue and the Coney Island / Sheepshead Bay corridor. QC is priced above its closest neighbors on shared items — though it does undercut a couple of them.
| Nearby competitor | Products carried | Overlapping items | QC pricier on | Avg. gap |
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QC is pricier than its immediate Coney Island Ave / Coney Island neighbors, but roughly at par with — or a touch below — the biggest Sheepshead Bay stores (Twenty8gramz, KushMart), which carry even deeper catalogs.
+6.7% above the Brooklyn median on average and higher on 76% of comparable products — with the typical above-market item sitting 10–20% high. It’s the most expensive store in Brooklyn on 192 items.
1,023 products, 10th of 81 stores and ~2.7× the median. Unlike many stores, selection is not the problem — QC can reliably give shoppers the strain and format they want.
Gummies (+8.6%), infused joints (+7.3%), pods (+8.9%) and disposables (+5.4%) — the habitual purchases — all carry markups, and these are the highest-overlap categories where neighbors are easiest to compare against.
Easy Times, Twenty8gramz and KushMart carry as much or more, and Elevated (+9%) and High Tidez (+9.5%) are cheaper on shared items. Depth won’t differentiate QC; price will.
Bring gummies, infused joints, disposables and pods toward the Brooklyn median. These are the products shoppers price-check most and where Elevated and High Tidez undercut QC by ~9% — the clearest defection risk.
Selection is QC’s edge over the smaller Coney Island Ave shops. Merchandise breadth, exclusives and staff picks so the catalog — not a price gap — is the reason to choose Quality Control.