Reading the shelf…
Ben's Original runs 11 products across 4 categories, stocked in 7 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is prepared foods, at 2% of the shelf. A niche presence · Brand Power 34/100.
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 7 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
11 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 Ben's Original (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Ben's Original · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Ben's Original 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 Ben's Original product in stock, cheapest first.






Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Ben's Original· 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 Ben's Original Long Grain and Wild Flavored Rice Easy Dinner Side · its most-distributed SKU (4 doors) in Boxed Grain Meal & Sides, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Falletti Foods · 4 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 20% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
24 storefronts across 7 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: lundberg family farms, near east, mahatma
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 Ben's Originalthat 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: Boxed Grain Meal & Sides, Brown Rice, Jasmine Rice · +1 more
open here: Brown Rice, Jasmine Rice, White Rice
open here: Brown Rice, Jasmine Rice, Shelf Stable Prepared Meals
open here: Shelf Stable Prepared Meals, White Rice
open here: Jasmine Rice
open here: White Rice
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Ben's Original sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.