Reading the shelf…
a2 Milk is a dairy brand that specializes in producing milk products containing only the A2 type of beta-casein protein, which is easier on digestion for some individuals. Their offerings include a variety of milk products such as whole milk, reduced-fat milk, and half & half, sourced from cows that are grain and grass-fed and not treated with growth hormone rBST.
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 9 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
7 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 2 categories · 3 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are A2 Milk (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as A2 Milk · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to A2 Milk 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 A2 Milk product in stock, cheapest first.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show A2 Milk· 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 a2 Milk Whole Milk · its most-distributed SKU (8 doors) in Plain Milk, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Gus's Community Market · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
~2% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 36% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
24 storefronts across 9 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: clover sonoma, horizon organic, clover 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 A2 Milkthat 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: Chocolate Milk, Half & Half
open here: Chocolate Milk, Half & Half
open here: Chocolate Milk, Half & Half
open here: Chocolate Milk, Half & Half
open here: Chocolate Milk
open here: Chocolate Milk
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and A2 Milk sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.