Reading the shelf…
Acme Smoked Fish is a leading American purveyor of smoked fish products, renowned for its high-quality smoked salmon and other seafood delicacies. The brand emphasizes using the freshest fish, offering a range of ready-to-eat products that are crafted with care and tradition. Acme Smoked Fish is a family-owned business based in Brooklyn, New York, with a history dating back to 1906.
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 11 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
13 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 4 categories · 5 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Acme Smoked Fish (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Acme Smoked Fish · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Acme Smoked Fish 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 Acme Smoked Fish product in stock, cheapest first.













Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Acme Smoked Fish· 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 Acme Smoked Fish Nova Smoked Salmon · its most-distributed SKU (6 doors) in Smoked Salmon, the biggest opening. The closest open door is LeBeau Nob Hill · 4 rivals already on that shelf.
~2% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 54% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
42 storefronts across 11 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: ducktrap river of maine, fishwife, honey smoked fish co.
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 Acme Smoked Fishthat 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: Seafood Salad
open here: Prepared Fish
open here: Smoked Salmon
open here: Smoked Salmon
open here: Prepared Fish
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Acme Smoked Fish sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.