Reading the shelf…
United Markets is a specialty independent running 1 Bay Area store, large-format at about 26,260 sq ft each.
Country Archer is a brand specializing in meat snacks, offering a variety of products such as beef jerky, turkey sticks, and mini meat sticks.
Country Archer isn’t on United Markets’ shelf yet. The opening: 1 category where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Archer Grass-Fed Beef Jerky, Mango Habanero, 16 oz in Meat Jerky.
United Markets stocks meat jerky thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 1 other Bay Area grocer.
United Markets merchandises 1 of the 1 category the brand sells.
grass-fed against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 65/100.
maps onto categories the store already runs.
Every category Country Archer plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at United Markets. 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.
Where it would price in meat jerky. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Country Archer (orange) sits below the shelf.
Country Archer’s SKUs United Markets doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from United Markets’ 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. United Markets profile →