Reading the shelf…
Big Spoon Roasters is an artisan food company based in Hillsborough, North Carolina, known for its handcrafted nut butters and snack bars. Founded in 2011, the brand emphasizes ethical sourcing and sustainability, offering innovative flavors and products, including a unique peanut butter for dogs.
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 6 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
21 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 3 categories · 7 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Big Spoon Roasters (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Big Spoon Roasters · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Big Spoon Roasters 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 Big Spoon Roasters product in stock, cheapest first.


















19 storefronts across 6 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Big Spoon Roasters· 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 Big Spoon Roasters Nut Butter · its most-distributed SKU (3 doors) in Peanut Butter, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Berkeley Bowl · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
~2% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 55% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: justin's, maranatha, barney butter
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 Big Spoon Roastersthat 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: Cashew Butter, Other Nut Butters, Other Snack Bars · +2 more
open here: Other Nut Butters, Other Snack Bars, Protein Bars
open here: Other Snack Bars, Protein Bars
open here: Protein Bars
open here: Protein Bars
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Big Spoon Roasters sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.