Café Valley Bakery at Mill Valley Market
Mill Valley Market is a specialty independent running 1 Bay Area store, mid-size at about 8,590 sq ft each.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 10 SKUs across 2 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 2 new doors to enter.
Lead with Banana Nut Mini Muffins in Muffins.
Mill Valley Market stocks muffins thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 2 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is muffins: Mill Valley Market stocks only 12 there, so Café Valley Bakery Banana Nut Mini Muffins stands out rather than blending in.
Mill Valley Market merchandises 5 of the 7 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 40/100.
enters a thin muffins shelf as a point of difference.
The full runway
Every category Café Valley Bakery plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Mill Valley 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 9 of 13 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
What to bring to expand
Café Valley Bakery’s SKUs Mill Valley 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 Mill Valley 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. Mill Valley Market profile →
