Reading the shelf…
Hillshire Farm runs 31 products across 7 categories, stocked in 8 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is deli meats, at 3% of the shelf. A mid-tier presence · Brand Power 49/100.
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 8 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
31 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 7 categories · 11 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Hillshire Farm (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Hillshire Farm · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Hillshire Farm 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 Hillshire Farm product in stock, cheapest first.







Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Hillshire Farm· 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 Hillshire Farm Ultra Thin Sliced Oven Roasted Turkey Breast Sandwich Meat, 9 oz · its most-distributed SKU (4 doors) in Deli Turkey, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Sprouts Farmers Market · 2 rivals already on that shelf.
~2% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 2% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
28 storefronts across 8 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: applegate, boar's head
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 Hillshire Farmthat 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: Deli Ham, Deli Turkey, Hot Dogs · +3 more
open here: Frozen Pockets and Sandwiches, Other Sausage, Prepared Sandwiches and Wraps · +2 more
open here: Frozen Pockets and Sandwiches, Hot Dogs, Other Sausage · +2 more
open here: Deli Ham, Deli Turkey, Hot Dogs · +2 more
open here: Frozen Pockets and Sandwiches, Prepared Sandwiches and Wraps, Salami · +1 more
open here: Hot Dogs, Other Sausage, Prepared Sandwiches and Wraps · +1 more
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Hillshire Farm sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.