Reading the shelf…
Woodlands is a specialty independent running 3 Bay Area stores, small-format at about 2,336 sq ft each, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
Madama Oliva is a brand specializing in olives and legumes, offering a variety of products such as pitted olive mixes and lupini beans.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 1 SKU across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen, replicated across all 3 stores.
Lead with Pitted Italian Olive Mix in Oil in Olives.
Woodlands stocks olives 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.
Woodlands merchandises 1 of the 2 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 50/100.
maps onto categories the store already runs.
Every category Madama Oliva plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Woodlands. 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 1 of 2 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
Where it would price in olives. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Madama Oliva (orange) sits below the shelf.
Madama Oliva’s SKUs Woodlands doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Woodlands’ 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. Woodlands profile →
5 named buyer contacts (Asst Store Mngr, Experienced Grocery Buyer, General Manager) are on file. Direct contacts are reserved for verified brand partners.