Reading the shelf…
Firebrand Artisan Breads is a bakery known for its wood-fired, naturally leavened breads and pastries. Founded in 2008 in Oakland, California, the brand focuses on using organic, sprouted whole grains to create unique flavors and textures in their products.
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 5 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
17 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 5 categories · 9 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Firebrand Breads (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Firebrand Breads · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Firebrand Breads 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 Firebrand Breads product in stock, cheapest first.
14 storefronts across 5 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Firebrand Breads· 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 FIREBRAND ARTISAN Sourdough Batard · its most-distributed SKU (4 doors) in Sourdough Bread, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Falletti Foods · 3 rivals already on that shelf.
~20% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 50% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: acme bread company, beckmann's, josey baker bread
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 Firebrand Breadsthat 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: Baguettes, Other Breads, Other Cakes · +2 more
open here: Other Breads, Other Cakes, Pretzels · +2 more
open here: Pretzels, Sprouted Grain Bread, Whole Wheat Bread
open here: Other Breads, Other Deli Meals and Sides
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Firebrand Breads sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.