Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate is a bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturer based in Eureka, California, known for its single-origin, two-ingredient chocolate bars.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 2 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 1 new door to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Fleur De Sel Bar in Chocolate Candies.
Pacific Market stocks chocolate candies thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 6 other Bay Area grocers.
Pacific Market merchandises 2 of the 4 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 85/100.
maps onto categories the store already runs.
Every category Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate 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 2 of 15 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Where it would price in chocolate candies. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per fl oz (hover for which). Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate (orange) sits well above the shelf.
Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate’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 →
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.