Reading the shelf…
Fairfax Market is a independent grocer running 1 Bay Area store.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 3 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen.
Lead with Hot Chili Sauce in Chili Sauces.
Fairfax Market stocks chili sauces thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 13 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is chili sauces: Fairfax Market stocks only 13 there, so Huy Fong Foods Hot Chili Sauce stands out rather than blending in.
Fairfax Market merchandises 1 of the 1 category the brand sells.
vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
an established national brand with proven demand.
enters a thin chili sauces shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Huy Fong Foods 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.
On shelf here, but only 3 of 7 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Where it would price in chili sauces. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Huy Fong Foods (orange) sits in line with the shelf.
Huy Fong Foods’ 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 →
