Reading the shelf…
Sprouts Farmers Market is a natural independent running 1 Bay Area store, mid-size at about 20,322 sq ft each, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
Echo Falls is a leading premium smoked seafood brand in the United States, specializing in a variety of smoked and specialty seafood products.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 2 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen.
Lead with Hot Smoked Cracked Pepper Coho Salmon in Smoked Salmon.
Sprouts Farmers Market stocks smoked salmon thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 5 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is smoked salmon: Sprouts Farmers Market stocks only 6 there, so Echo Falls Hot Smoked Cracked Pepper Coho Salmon stands out rather than blending in.
Sprouts Farmers Market merchandises 1 of the 2 categories the brand sells.
wild-caught against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 50/100.
enters a thin smoked salmon shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Echo Falls plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Sprouts Farmers 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 12 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
Echo Falls’ SKUs Sprouts Farmers Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Sprouts Farmers 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. Sprouts Farmers Market profile →