Reading the shelf…
Burlap & Barrel is an American spice importer that specializes in single-origin spices sourced directly from smallholder farmers around the globe. Founded in 2016, the company operates as a public benefit corporation, focusing on equitable and transparent supply chains that support sustainable farming practices.
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 4 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
23 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 2 categories · 15 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Burlap & Barrel (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Burlap & Barrel · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Burlap & Barrel 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 Burlap & Barrel product in stock, cheapest first.























15 storefronts across 4 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Burlap & Barrel· 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 Burlap & Barrel Robusta Black Peppercorns · its most-distributed SKU (1 door) in Pepper, 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 62% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: morton & bassett spices, spicely organics, simply organic
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 Burlap & Barrelthat 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 Powder, Dried Cardamom, Dried Cinnamon · +6 more
open here: Crushed Red Pepper, Dried Cardamom, Dried Rosemary
open here: Crushed Red Pepper, Other Seasoning Mixes
open here: Other Seasoning Mixes
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Burlap & Barrel sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.