Reading the shelf…
Bolani is a family-owned brand specializing in handcrafted flatbread sandwiches and sauces inspired by Afghan culinary traditions. Their products are made with fresh, high-quality ingredients and are designed to offer authentic, homemade flavors. Bolani's offerings include a variety of filled flatbreads and complementary sauces, providing convenient, flavorful meal options.
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 11 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
14 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 5 categories · 6 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Bolani (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Bolani · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Bolani 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 Bolani product in stock, cheapest first.













Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Bolani· 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 Bolani Basil Pesto · its most-distributed SKU (5 doors) in Pesto, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Fairfax Market · 2 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 47% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
24 storefronts across 11 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: boar's head, cucina & amore
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 Bolanithat 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: Chili Sauces, Other Dips and Spreads, Pesto · +2 more
open here: Chili Sauces, Other Dips and Spreads, Pesto · +1 more
open here: Chili Sauces, Prepared Indian Food
open here: Chili Sauces, Other Dips and Spreads
open here: Prepared Indian Food
open here: Prepared Indian Food
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Bolani sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.