Reading the shelf…
Bhu Foods runs 11 products across 6 categories, stocked in 5 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is protein snacks, at 1% of the shelf. A niche presence · Brand Power 35/100.
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 5 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
11 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 6 categories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Bhu Foods (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Bhu Foods · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Bhu Foods 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 Bhu Foods product in stock, cheapest first.
9 storefronts across 5 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Bhu Foods· 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 Bhu Foods Organic Double Dark Chocolate Cookie Dough Keto Bites 6 Pack · its most-distributed SKU (3 doors) in Protein Bars, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Berkeley Bowl · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 80% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: kind, gomacro, clif bar
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 Bhu Foodsthat 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: Chocolate Candies, Other Snack Bars, Packaged Cookies · +2 more
open here: Chocolate Candies, Cookie Doughs, Other Snack Bars · +1 more
open here: Chocolate Candies, Other Snack Bars, Packaged Cookies · +1 more
open here: Chocolate Candies, Cookie Doughs, Packaged Cookies
open here: Other Snack Bars
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Bhu Foods sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.