Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Fancy Feast is a premium cat food brand known for its gourmet offerings, providing a variety of wet and dry cat food options, as well as treats and meal toppers.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 5 SKUs across 2 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 2 categories to widen and 1 new door to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Purina Fancy Feast Dry Cat Food With Ocean Fish and Salmon in Dry Cat Food.
Pacific Market stocks dry cat food 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 dry cat food: Pacific Market stocks only 1 there, so Purina Fancy Feast Dry Cat Food With Ocean Fish and Salmon stands out rather than blending in.
Pacific Market merchandises 3 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 40/100.
enters a thin dry cat food shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Fancy Feast 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 4 of 95 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
On shelf here, but only 1 of 5 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Fancy Feast’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 →
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
