Reading the shelf…
Fruition Chocolate Works is a brand dedicated to crafting high-quality chocolate products by combining ethically sourced cocoa beans with both modern and traditional production techniques. Based in the Catskill Mountains, it offers a diverse range of chocolate items, including dark, milk, and white chocolate varieties, often incorporating unique flavors such as smoked sea salt, bourbon, and fresh mint. The brand emphasizes small-batch production to ensure attention to detail and quality in each of its offerings.
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 2 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
31 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 2 categories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Fruition Chocolate Works (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Fruition Chocolate Works · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Fruition Chocolate Works 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.
the full Fruition Chocolate Works lineup · on SF shelves first (cheapest first), then SKUs we've catalogued but haven't measured on a shelf here yet.




























2 storefronts across 2 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Fruition Chocolate Works· 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 FRUITION CHOCOLATE WORKS Colombia Tumaco Dark 85% Chocolate Bar · its most-distributed SKU (2 doors) in Chocolate Candies, the biggest opening. The closest open door is The Epicurean Trader · 3 rivals already on that shelf.
~0% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 93% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: dick taylor craft chocolate, marou faiseurs de chocolat, raaka
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.