Reading the shelf…
Carbone Fine Food is a premium Italian-inspired grocery brand founded in 2021 by chefs Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi, known for their acclaimed New York City restaurant, Carbone. The brand specializes in high-quality pasta sauces made from all-natural, non-GMO ingredients, designed to bring the restaurant experience into home kitchens.
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 15 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
26 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 1 category · 3 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Carbone (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Carbone · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Carbone 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 Carbone product in stock, cheapest first.


























Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Carbone· 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 Carbone Marinara Pasta Sauce, No Sugar Added, Non Gmo, Kosher · its most-distributed SKU (13 doors) in Tomato Based Sauces, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Falletti Foods · 4 rivals already on that shelf.
~2% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 36% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
35 storefronts across 15 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: rao's, dave's gourmet, classico
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 Carbonethat 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: Alfredo Sauce, Pizza Sauce
open here: Alfredo Sauce, Pizza Sauce
open here: Alfredo Sauce, Pizza Sauce
open here: Alfredo Sauce, Pizza Sauce
open here: Alfredo Sauce, Pizza Sauce
open here: Pizza Sauce
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Carbone sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.