Reading the shelf…
Falletti Foods is a conventional independent running 1 Bay Area store, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
Little Sesame is a gourmet food brand specializing in organic hummus, crafted with regeneratively farmed chickpeas.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 3 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen.
Lead with Preserved Lemon Hummus in Hummus.
Falletti Foods stocks hummus thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 4 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is hummus: Falletti Foods stocks only 13 there, so Little Sesame Preserved Lemon Hummus stands out rather than blending in.
Falletti Foods merchandises 1 of the 2 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic, vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 65/100.
enters a thin hummus shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Little Sesame plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Falletti Foods. 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 14 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
Where it would price in hummus. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Little Sesame (orange) sits in line with the shelf.
Little Sesame’s SKUs Falletti Foods doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Falletti Foods’ 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. Falletti Foods profile →