Reading the shelf…
Kalahari Snacks specializes in producing biltong, a traditional South African air-dried beef snack, offering a healthier alternative to traditional beef jerky. Their products are made from lean cuts of American beef and are known for being high in protein, gluten-free, and containing no sugar, making them suitable for various dietary lifestyles such as Paleo, Keto, and Whole30.
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.
4 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 1 category. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Kalahari Snacks (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Kalahari Snacks · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Kalahari Snacks 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 Kalahari Snacks product in stock, cheapest first.




19 storefronts across 8 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Kalahari Snacks· 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 Kalahari Snacks Kalahari Biltong, Air Dried Thinly Sliced Beef, Original · its most-distributed SKU (8 doors) in Meat Jerky, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Community Market CA · 4 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 82% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: epic, chomps, pan's
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.