Reading the shelf…
Fairfax Market is a independent grocer running 1 Bay Area store.
Good Culture is a brand specializing in cottage cheese, cream cheese, and sour cream, known for its thick and creamy texture and use of simple, high-quality ingredients.
Good Culture isn’t on Fairfax Market’s shelf yet. The opening: 4 categories where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Cottage Cheese, Small Curd, 4% Milkfat, Organic, Whole Milk Classic in Cottage Cheese.
Fairfax Market stocks cottage cheese 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 cottage cheese: Fairfax Market stocks only 8 there, so good culture Cottage Cheese, Small Curd, 4% Milkfat, Organic, Whole Milk Classic stands out rather than blending in.
Fairfax Market merchandises 4 of the 5 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic, pasture-raised against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 75/100.
enters a thin cottage cheese shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Good Culture plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Fairfax Market. Depth is the distinct SKUs the store carries there versus the fleet median, shown next to the rival brands already on that shelf.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
Where it would price in cottage cheese. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Good Culture (orange) sits well above the shelf.
Good Culture’s SKUs Fairfax Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Fairfax 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. Fairfax Market profile →
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.