Reading the shelf…
Central Milling Company is a brand specializing in organic flours and grains. Their product line includes a variety of organic flours such as pasta flour, whole spelt flour, and unbleached pastry flour, as well as polenta. The company emphasizes organic sourcing and high-quality milling processes.
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 3 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
11 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 3 categories · 7 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Central Milling Company (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Central Milling Company · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Central Milling Company 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.
the full Central Milling Company lineup · on SF shelves first (cheapest first), then SKUs we've catalogued but haven't measured on a shelf here yet.
















4 storefronts across 3 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Central Milling Company· 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 Central Milling Organic Pasta Flour · its most-distributed SKU (2 doors) in Other Flours, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Mill Valley Market · 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 17% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: bob's red mill, king arthur baking company, caputo
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 Central Milling Companythat 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: Other Flours, Polenta
open here: Polenta
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Central Milling Company sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.