Reading the shelf…
GURU is a brand specializing in organic energy drinks made with high-quality, natural ingredients. Their products are designed to provide sustained energy using natural caffeine sourced from green tea. GURU's offerings are USDA organic, vegan, and free from artificial sweeteners like sucralose and aspartame.
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 6 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
13 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 Guru (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Guru · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Guru 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 Guru product in stock, cheapest first.












16 storefronts across 6 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Guru· 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 GURU Organic Wild Strawberry Watermelon Zero Sugar Energy Drink · its most-distributed SKU (3 doors) in Energy Drinks, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Mollie Stone's Markets · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
~2% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 55% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: celsius, red bull, rockstar
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 Guruthat 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: Bottled Yerba Mate
open here: Bottled Yerba Mate
open here: Bottled Yerba Mate
open here: Bottled Yerba Mate
open here: Bottled Yerba Mate
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Guru sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.