Reading the shelf…
FIJI Water is a premium bottled water brand known for its natural artesian water sourced from an aquifer in Viti Levu, Fiji. The water is celebrated for its soft, smooth taste and balanced pH level, making it a popular choice for hydration. Established in 1996, the brand is owned by The Wonderful Company and emphasizes its unique origin and natural filtration process through volcanic rock.
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 14 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
8 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 1 category · 2 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Fiji (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Fiji · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Fiji 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 Fiji product in stock, cheapest first.








Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Fiji· 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 FIJI Natural Artesian Bottled Water · its most-distributed SKU (10 doors) in Spring Water, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Rainbow Grocery Cooperative · 3 rivals already on that shelf.
~4% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 52% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
36 storefronts across 14 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: crystal geyser, mountain valley, arrowhead
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 Fijithat 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: Spring Water
open here: Spring Water
open here: Spring Water
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Fiji sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.