Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
LÄRABAR is a brand known for producing healthy, gluten-free snack bars made from minimal, pure ingredients.
Lärabar 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 Gluten Free Bar, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, Vegan 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 11 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is other snack bars: Pacific Market stocks only 6 there, so LÄRABAR Gluten Free Bar, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, Vegan stands out rather than blending in.
Pacific Market merchandises 3 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, vegan, vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 65/100.
enters a thin other snack bars shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Lärabar 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). Lärabar (orange) sits in line with the shelf.
Lärabar’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.