Reading the shelf…
Ekone is a brand that specializes in premium tinned seafood products, including smoked oysters, mussels, albacore tuna, wild octopus, and smoked Coho salmon. Founded in 1980, it operates as one of the last independent canneries in the U.S., located in Bay Center, Washington. Now part of the Taylor Shellfish Farms family, Ekone is known for its large, hearty seafood pieces with minimal oil content, emphasizing natural flavors.
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 7 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
10 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 2 categories · 5 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Ekone (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Ekone · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Ekone 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 Ekone product in stock, cheapest first.










18 storefronts across 7 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Ekone· 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 Ekone Albacore Tuna · its most-distributed SKU (1 door) in Canned Tuna, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Pacific Market · 3 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 94% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: patagonia provisions, cole’s, crown prince
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.
Bay Area stores already carrying Ekonethat meaningfully merchandise other categories it sells but isn't in here yet · ranked by open categories. A door already won, with room on adjacent shelves.
open here: Canned Tuna, Other Canned Seafood, Smoked Salmon
open here: Canned Tuna, Other Canned Seafood, Smoked Salmon
open here: Canned Tuna, Other Canned Seafood, Smoked Salmon
open here: Canned Tuna, Smoked Salmon
open here: Canned Tuna, Smoked Salmon
open here: Canned Tuna
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Ekone sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.