Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 1 SKU across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Instant Decaffeinated Coffee in Instant Coffee.
Pacific Market stocks instant coffee thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 4 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is instant coffee: Pacific Market stocks only 11 there, so Cafe Altura Instant Decaffeinated Coffee stands out rather than blending in.
Pacific Market merchandises 1 of the 1 category the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 50/100.
enters a thin instant coffee shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Cafe Altura plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Pacific 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 1 of 2 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Where it would price in instant coffee. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Cafe Altura (orange) sits in line with the shelf.
Cafe Altura’s SKUs Pacific Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Pacific 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. Pacific Market profile →