Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Just Desserts is a premium dessert brand known for its hand-crafted, scratch-baked cakes, brownies, and cupcakes.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 9 SKUs across 3 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 2 categories to widen and 1 new door to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Cookies & Cream Cupcake in Cupcakes.
Pacific Market stocks cupcakes thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 8 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is cupcakes: Pacific Market stocks only 10 there, so Just Desserts Cookies & Cream Cupcake stands out rather than blending in.
Pacific Market merchandises 4 of the 4 categories the brand sells.
vegan, vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 60/100.
enters a thin cupcakes shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Just Desserts 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 5 of 8 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
On shelf here, but only 3 of 4 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Where it would price in cupcakes. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Just Desserts (orange) sits well above the shelf.
Just Desserts’ 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 →
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Fully stocked here (1/1 SKUs).