Banquet at United Markets
United Markets is a specialty independent running 1 Bay Area store, large-format at about 26,260 sq ft each.
Banquet is a well-known brand specializing in frozen prepared meals and entrees.
Banquet isn’t on United Markets’ shelf yet. The opening: 6 categories where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Chicken Pot Pie, Frozen Meal in Frozen Pot Pies.
United Markets stocks frozen pot pies thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 3 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is frozen pot pies: United Markets stocks only 8 there, so Banquet Chicken Pot Pie, Frozen Meal stands out rather than blending in.
United Markets merchandises 6 of the 7 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 35/100.
enters a thin frozen pot pies shelf as a point of difference.
The full runway
Every category Banquet plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at United Markets. 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.
How it prices
Where it would price in frozen pot pies. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Banquet (orange) sits below the shelf.
What to bring to land
Banquet’s SKUs United Markets doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from United Markets’ 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. United Markets profile →
