Reading the shelf…
A Dozen Cousins is a food brand that offers a variety of ready-to-eat meals inspired by Creole, Caribbean, and Latin American cuisines. Their product line includes seasoned beans, bone broth rice, and quick marinades, all made with real ingredients and designed for convenience. The brand emphasizes authentic flavors and easy preparation, catering to those seeking traditional tastes without extensive cooking time.
Brand Power (0-100) blends four shelf signals. Price position is shown below for context · a value↔premium read, not part of the score.
carried in 8 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
12 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 6 categories · 9 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are A Dozen Cousins (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as A Dozen Cousins · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
every A Dozen Cousins product in stock, cheapest first.




18 storefronts across 8 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show A Dozen Cousins· but the shelf it belongs on is already there, ranked by fit. Fit blends category coverage, rival presence, price-band match, and openness to independents at this scale; weigh the footprint chips and route notes against it · a 7-door chain and a single great shop are different prizes. Our capture is partial, so a widely-distributed brand may already be carried through channels we don’t index.
Lead with A Dozen Cousins Quick Marinade Peruvian Pollo Ala Brasa · its most-distributed SKU (1 door) in Other Sauces, the biggest opening. The closest open door is United Markets · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 73% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: near east, somos, lundberg family farms
absence = seen in neither the grocer's digital catalog nor our shelf photos (90 days); assortments move. fit reads the shelf, not the buying office — see route notes.
Bay Area stores already carrying A Dozen Cousinsthat meaningfully merchandise other categories it sells but isn't in here yet · ranked by open categories. A door already won, with room on adjacent shelves.
open here: Canned Baked Beans, Canned Black Beans, Canned Chili · +2 more
open here: Canned Pinto Beans, Canned Refried Beans, Other Sauces · +1 more
open here: Boxed Grain Meal & Sides, Canned Black Beans, Other Sauces · +1 more
open here: Boxed Grain Meal & Sides, Canned Chili, Canned Refried Beans · +1 more
open here: Boxed Grain Meal & Sides, Canned Black Beans, Canned Pinto Beans · +1 more
open here: Canned Chili, Canned Refried Beans, Other Sauces
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and A Dozen Cousins sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.