Reading the shelf…
Diet Coke is a sugar-free and low-calorie diet soda produced by the Coca-Cola Company. Known for its crisp and refreshing taste, it has been a popular choice for those seeking a no-calorie beverage since its launch in 1982. The brand offers a variety of products, including caffeinated and caffeine-free options, as well as flavored variants like cherry. Diet Coke is celebrated for its distinctive lighter taste compared to other cola beverages.
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.
16 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 1 category. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Diet Coke (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Diet Coke · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Diet Coke 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 Diet Coke product in stock, cheapest first.
















Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Diet Coke· 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 Diet Coke Soda · its most-distributed SKU (14 doors) in Cola, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Costco · 3 rivals already on that shelf.
~2% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 50% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
46 storefronts across 15 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: coca-cola, pepsi, diet pepsi
route note: buying runs through a corporate program — typically a slower path than an independent grocer's buyer.
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.