Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Arroyo Baking Co isn’t on Pacific Market’s shelf yet in any of its 2 stores. The opening: 1 category where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with . Fig Bars, Variety Pack, 2 oz, 40-count in Fruit Bars.
Pacific Market stocks fruit bars 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.
The more differentiated opening is fruit bars: Pacific Market stocks only 9 there, so Arroyo Baking Co. Fig Bars, Variety Pack, 2 oz, 40-count stands out rather than blending in.
Pacific Market merchandises 1 of the 1 category the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 40/100.
enters a thin fruit bars shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Arroyo Baking Co 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.
Where it would price in fruit bars. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Arroyo Baking Co (orange) sits below the shelf.
Arroyo Baking Co’s 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 →