Reading the shelf…
Joe Tea offers a diverse range of kettle-cooked chips under the Joe Chips and Couch Potato brands, each crafted in small batches to ensure a distinct crunch and flavor. The Joe Chips line features a variety of flavors, including the mysterious 4x4 Secret Flavor, Bacon & Cheddar, and Classic Sea Salt, while the Couch Potato series playfully embraces leisure with flavors like Buffalo Wings and Mac & Cheezy. Each product is packaged in convenient single-serve bags, making them ideal for snacking on-the-go or enjoying at home.
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 2 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
56 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 1 category · 2 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Joe Tea (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Joe Tea · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Joe Tea 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.
the full Joe Tea lineup · on SF shelves first (cheapest first), then SKUs we've catalogued but haven't measured on a shelf here yet.








































2 storefronts across 2 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Joe Tea· 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 JOE TEA Tea, Peach · its most-distributed SKU (2 doors) in Bottled Black Tea, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Target · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
~0% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 33% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: snapple, arizona, lipton
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.