Kettle & Fire at Pacific Market
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Kettle & Fire is a brand specializing in premium bone broths and cooking fats, known for using high-quality, organic ingredients.
Kettle & Fire isn’t on Pacific Market’s shelf yet in any of its 2 stores. The opening: 4 categories where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Broth, Vegetable, Premium in Vegetable Broth.
Pacific Market stocks vegetable broth 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.
Pacific Market carries canned chili in real depth, 16 SKUs against a fleet median of 6, so a new entry there is the Nth option, and its per-unit price would likely sit near the top of a crowded shelf. The more differentiated opening is vegetable broth: Pacific Market stocks only 4 there, so Kettle & Fire Broth, Vegetable, Premium stands out rather than blending in. Lead with the vegetable broth, and position the canned chili as a finishing or gift item.
Pacific Market merchandises 6 of the 6 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic, vegan against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 75/100.
enters a thin vegetable broth shelf as a point of difference.
The full runway · across 2 stores
Every category Kettle & Fire 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.
How it prices
Where it would price in vegetable broth. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per fl oz (hover for which).
What to bring to land
Kettle & Fire’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 →
