Reading the shelf…
Driver's Market is a independent grocer running 1 Bay Area store.
Caputo isn’t on Driver's Market’s shelf yet. The opening: 1 category where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Double Milled Semolina in Other Flours.
Driver's Market stocks other flours thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 3 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is other flours: Driver's Market stocks only 10 there, so Caputo Double Milled Semolina stands out rather than blending in.
Driver's Market merchandises 4 of the 5 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 30/100.
enters a thin other flours shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Caputo plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Driver's Market. Depth is the distinct SKUs the store carries there versus the fleet median, shown next to the rival brands already on that shelf.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
Where it would price in other flours. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Caputo (orange) sits below the shelf.
Caputo’s SKUs Driver's Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Driver's 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. Driver's Market profile →
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.