Reading the shelf…
Community Market CA is a independent grocer running 1 Bay Area store.
Ekone is a brand that specializes in premium tinned seafood products, including smoked oysters, mussels, albacore tuna, wild octopus, and smoked Coho salmon.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 5 SKUs across 3 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 2 categories to widen and 1 new door to enter.
Lead with Lemon Pepper Smoked Oysters Rte Pouch in Canned Oysters.
Community Market CA stocks canned oysters 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 canned oysters: Community Market CA stocks only 3 there, so Ekone Lemon Pepper Smoked Oysters Rte Pouch stands out rather than blending in.
Community Market CA merchandises 4 of the 5 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 55/100.
enters a thin canned oysters shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Ekone plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Community Market CA. 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 3 of 5 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
On shelf here, but only 1 of 2 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Ekone’s SKUs Community Market CA doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Community Market CA’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. Community Market CA profile →
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Fully stocked here (1/1 SKUs).
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
