Reading the shelf…
Woodlands is a specialty independent running 3 Bay Area stores, small-format at about 2,336 sq ft each, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
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 1 SKU across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 2 new doors to enter, replicated across all 3 stores.
Lead with Purina Fancy Feast Tender Chicken and Liver Feast Classic Grain Free Wet Cat Food Pate in Wet Cat Food.
Woodlands stocks wet cat food thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 9 other Bay Area grocers.
Woodlands carries wet cat food in real depth, 134 SKUs against a fleet median of 21, so a new entry there is the Nth option, and its per-unit price would likely sit near the top of a crowded shelf.
Woodlands merchandises 3 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 40/100.
the categories it plays in are already deep here.
Every category Fancy Feast plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Woodlands. 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 95 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Where it would price in wet cat food. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Fancy Feast (orange) sits below the shelf.
Fancy Feast’s SKUs Woodlands doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Woodlands’ 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. Woodlands profile →
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
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