# K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah., Mt Prospect IL: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/mt-prospect/k-and-m-express-tobacco-and-vape-smokeshop-hookah-mt-prospect-il. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-16.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/mt-prospect/k-and-m-express-tobacco-and-vape-smokeshop-hookah-mt-prospect-il

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## In short

K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah. is a smoke shop in Mt Prospect, IL. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Smoke shop |
| Address | 2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 8 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 9 AM to 11 PM |
| Rating | 4.9 across 1,167 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Sunday |
| Updated | September 16, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop and Vape is located at 2362 south Elmhurst Rd in Mt prospect, IL. We are a Tobacco shop and Vaporizer store. Our products include vape juice, vapes, tobacco pipes, hookah, cigarettes , roll your own cigarettes , (and much more) at the best possible prices. We are open 7 days a week 9:00am- 10:00pm/ Friday and Saturday 9:00am-midnight Give us a call if you have any questions at (773-230-1290) | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM · Fri to Sat 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM · Sun 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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## Visiting K&M express

Address: 2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA. Hours: Mon to Thu 8 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 9 AM to 11 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop and Vape is located at 2362 south Elmhurst Rd in Mt prospect, IL. We are a Tobacco shop and Vaporizer store. Our products include vape juice, vapes, tobacco pipes, hookah, cigarettes , roll your own cigarettes , (and much more) at the best possible prices. We are open 7 days a week 9:00am- 10:00pm/ Friday and Saturday 9:00am-midnight Give us a call if you have any questions at (773-230-1290)"


### When to go

Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Friday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Balkan Taste | European restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Cuisine of India Restaurant | Indian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Oakton St & Colony Dr | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Karavan Restaurant | Asian fusion restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Oakton/Elmhurst | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Restaurant & Grill House | Restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.9 average across 1,167 reviews: Google 1,167. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)

While K&M Express has a friendly atmosphere and a range of products, inconsistent customer service and product issues detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 1,167 reviews.)


### What people like

- Good variety of products
- Friendly staff


### What people do not like

- Unresponsive customer service
- Incorrect product exchanges
- Long wait times


### Press

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### Directories

Listed on 1 of the 20 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Angi | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Brownbook | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| DexKnows | Not listed |
| Facebook | Not listed |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Not listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Thumbtack | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yelp | Not listed |


## Questions people ask


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## The AI Score: 26 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Mt Prospect smoke shops run 23 to 34. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. K&M express scores 26, below the Mt Prospect average of 29. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | K&M express |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. |  |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 20 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 91 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. |  |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 66 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. |  |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a smoke shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to K&M express |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah. | LocalBusiness | #business |  | Subject of this page |
| Mt Prospect, Illinois | City | #city |  | City K&M express is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the smoke shops in Mt Prospect, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best smoke shops in Mt Prospect: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/mt-prospect/smoke-shop
- Best businesses in Mt Prospect: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/mt-prospect


### Nearby

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- /elgin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/elgin
- /carol-stream: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/carol-stream
- /lombard: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/lombard
- /aurora: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/aurora


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Illinois: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJMdu7kq2xD4gR8ESk8VQjsnA (accessed Sep 16, 2026)