Reading the shelf…
A-sha runs 18 products across 3 categories, stocked in 5 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is noodles, at 3% of the shelf. A niche presence · Brand Power 35/100.
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 5 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
18 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 3 categories · 5 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are A-sha (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as A-sha · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to A-sha in what it makes — matched on product name, category & description across the whole catalog, wherever they’re sold. Not who it competes with on the shelf.
every A-sha product in stock, cheapest first.


















11 storefronts across 5 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show A-sha· 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 World Market A-Sha Spicy Mala Meteor Instant Noodles Box 4 Pack · its most-distributed SKU (3 doors) in Instant Noodles, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Andronico's Community Markets · 4 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 69% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: nongshim, samyang foods co., ltd, sapporo
route note: buying runs through a corporate program — typically a slower path than an independent grocer's buyer.
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-shathat 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: Bottled Milk Tea, Other Bottled Teas, Other Noodles · +1 more
open here: Instant Noodles, Other Bottled Teas, Prepared Soups
open here: Instant Noodles, Prepared Soups
open here: Other Bottled Teas
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and A-sha sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.