King Floyd's Dill Pickle Virginia Peanuts
$12.89at 1 grocer
Reading the shelf…
Berkeley Bowl is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 3 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 3 new doors to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with King Floyd's Bitters & Soda in Bitters.
Berkeley Bowl stocks bitters thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 1 other Bay Area grocer.
Berkeley Bowl carries tortilla chips in real depth, 83 SKUs against a fleet median of 40, 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 bitters: Berkeley Bowl stocks only 5 there, so King Floyd's Bitters & Soda stands out rather than blending in. Lead with the bitters, and position the tortilla chips as a finishing or gift item.
Berkeley Bowl merchandises 4 of the 4 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 55/100.
enters a thin bitters shelf as a point of difference.
Every category King Floyd’s plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Berkeley Bowl. 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 3 of 4 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
King Floyd’s’ SKUs Berkeley Bowl doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Berkeley Bowl’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. Berkeley Bowl profile →
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
