Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Health-Ade is a wellness beverage company known for its organic kombucha, which is rich in probiotics.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 6 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 1 new door to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Kombucha, Cayenne Cleanse in Kombucha.
Pacific Market stocks kombucha thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 14 other Bay Area grocers.
Pacific Market carries fruit & cream soda in real depth, 29 SKUs against a fleet median of 14, so a new entry there is the Nth option, and its per-unit price would likely sit near the top of a crowded shelf. The more differentiated opening is kombucha: Pacific Market stocks only 11 there, so Health-Ade Kombucha, Cayenne Cleanse stands out rather than blending in. Lead with the kombucha, and position the fruit & cream soda as a finishing or gift item.
Pacific Market merchandises 2 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic, vegan against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 90/100.
enters a thin kombucha shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Health-ade plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Pacific Market. Depth is the distinct SKUs the store carries there versus the fleet median, shown next to the rival brands already on that shelf.
On shelf here, but only 6 of 28 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Where it would price in kombucha. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per fl oz (hover for which). Health-ade (orange) sits above the shelf.
Health-ade’s SKUs Pacific Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Pacific 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. Pacific Market profile →
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.