Beyond Meat at Pacific Market
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Beyond Meat is a brand specializing in plant-based meat alternatives, offering a range of products that mimic the taste and texture of traditional meat.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 5 SKUs across 4 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 4 new doors to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Breakfast Sausage Plant-Based Links, Original in Vegetarian Sausages.
Pacific Market stocks vegetarian sausages 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 vegetarian sausages: Pacific Market stocks only 4 there, so Beyond Meat Breakfast Sausage Plant-Based Links, Original stands out rather than blending in.
Pacific Market merchandises 9 of the 11 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, vegan, vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 80/100.
enters a thin vegetarian sausages shelf as a point of difference.
The full runway · across 2 stores
Every category Beyond Meat 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.
On shelf here, but only 2 of 5 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
What to bring to expand
Beyond Meat’s SKUs Pacific Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Already on the shelf
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 →
