Reading the shelf…
Bar-s runs 7 products across 3 categories, stocked in 3 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is processed meats, at 4% of the shelf. A niche presence · Brand Power 25/100.
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 3 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
7 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 3 categories · 4 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Bar-s (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Bar-s · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
every Bar-s product in stock, cheapest first.







8 storefronts across 3 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Bar-s· 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 Bar-S Bacon · its most-distributed SKU (1 door) in Sliced Bacon, the biggest opening. The closest open door is United Markets · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
~3% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
$7.84 average price. where it sits on price · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: applegate, niman ranch, oscar mayer
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 Bar-sthat 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: Frozen Hot Dog Snacks, Sliced Bacon
open here: Sliced Bacon
open here: Hot Dogs
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Bar-s sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.