Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Kate's Real Food offers a range of energy and protein bars crafted with real, recognizable ingredients like oats, honey, and various nuts and seeds.
Kate's Real Food isn’t on Pacific Market’s shelf yet in any of its 2 stores. The opening: 2 categories where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Organic Snack Bar, Dark Chocolate Cherry & Almond in Other Snack Bars.
Pacific Market stocks other snack bars thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 7 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is other snack bars: Pacific Market stocks only 6 there, so Kate's Real Food Organic Snack Bar, Dark Chocolate Cherry & Almond stands out rather than blending in.
Pacific Market merchandises 4 of the 4 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic, vegan against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 70/100.
enters a thin other snack bars shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Kate's Real Food 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.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
Where it would price in other snack bars. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Kate's Real Food (orange) sits well above the shelf.
Kate's Real Food’s 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 →
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.