4th & Heart at Berkeley Bowl
Berkeley Bowl is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
4th & Heart is a brand specializing in ghee, a type of clarified butter known for its rich, creamy texture and gut-friendly properties.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 4 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Salted Ghee in Ghee.
Berkeley Bowl stocks ghee thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 1 other Bay Area grocer.
The more differentiated opening is ghee: Berkeley Bowl stocks only 8 there, so 4th & Heart Salted Ghee stands out rather than blending in.
Berkeley Bowl merchandises 1 of the 1 category the brand sells.
grass-fed, non-gmo, pasture-raised against the store's assortment lean.
an established national brand with proven demand.
enters a thin ghee shelf as a point of difference.
The full runway · across 2 stores
Every category 4th & Heart plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Berkeley Bowl. Depth is the distinct SKUs the store carries there versus the fleet median, shown next to the rival brands already on that shelf.
On shelf here, but only 4 of 5 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
How it prices
Where it would price in ghee. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). 4th & Heart (orange) sits in line with the shelf.
What to bring to expand
4th & Heart’s SKUs Berkeley Bowl doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Already on the shelf
Presence and depth are measured from Berkeley Bowl’s current Bay Area storefront: its online catalog plus our shelf photos, a partial view. A widely-distributed brand shown as a new door may already be carried through channels we don’t index. Berkeley Bowl profile →
