Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 2 SKUs across 2 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 1 new door to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Organic Beef 100% Organic Grass-fed Ground Beef in Ground Beef.
Pacific Market stocks ground beef 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.
The more differentiated opening is ground beef: Pacific Market stocks only 5 there, so Eel River Organic Beef 100% Organic Grass-fed Ground Beef stands out rather than blending in.
Pacific Market merchandises 3 of the 4 categories the brand sells.
grass-fed, non-gmo, organic against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 60/100.
enters a thin ground beef shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Eel River 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 1 of 2 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Eel River’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 →
Fully stocked here (1/1 SKUs).
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.