Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Andytown Coffee Roasters is a specialty coffee company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014 by baristas Michael McCrory and Lauren Crabbe.
Andytown Coffee Roasters isn’t on Pacific Market’s shelf yet in any of its 2 stores. The opening: 3 categories where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Andytown Roasters Wind & Sea Single Serve 5-pack in Coffee Pods.
Pacific Market stocks coffee pods 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.
Pacific Market carries whole bean coffee in real depth, 67 SKUs against a fleet median of 33, so a new entry there is the Nth option, and its per-unit price would likely sit near the top of a crowded shelf. The more differentiated opening is coffee pods: Pacific Market stocks only 9 there, so Andytown Roasters Wind & Sea Single Serve 5-pack stands out rather than blending in. Lead with the coffee pods, and position the whole bean coffee as a finishing or gift item.
Pacific Market merchandises 3 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 75/100.
enters a thin coffee pods shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Andytown Coffee Roasters plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Pacific Market. Depth is the distinct SKUs the store carries there versus the fleet median, shown next to the rival brands already on that shelf.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
Andytown Coffee Roasters’ SKUs Pacific Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Pacific Market’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. Pacific Market profile →
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.