Reading the shelf…
Mateo's is a brand specializing in gourmet salsas, known for their fresh, homemade taste achieved through the use of freshly chopped jalapeños and herbs, slow-simmered in kettles. The brand emphasizes using real ingredients without fillers, offering a variety of salsa flavors such as medium, hot, and mild. Mateo's also produces queso and seasoning products, maintaining a focus on authentic, farmers-market freshness.
Brand Power (0-100) blends four shelf signals. Price position is shown below for context · a value↔premium read, not part of the score.
carried in 8 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
9 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 1 category. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Mateo's (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Mateo's · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Mateo's in what it makes — matched on product name, category & description across the whole catalog, wherever they’re sold. Not who it competes with on the shelf.
every Mateo's product in stock, cheapest first.









15 storefronts across 8 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Mateo's· but the shelf it belongs on is already there, ranked by fit. Fit blends category coverage, rival presence, price-band match, and openness to independents at this scale; weigh the footprint chips and route notes against it · a 7-door chain and a single great shop are different prizes. Our capture is partial, so a widely-distributed brand may already be carried through channels we don’t index.
Lead with Mateo's Gourmet Salsa, Mild · its most-distributed SKU (6 doors) in Salsas, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Andronico's Community Markets · 4 rivals already on that shelf.
~3% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 22% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: herdez, pace, desert pepper trading co.
route note: buying runs through a corporate program — typically a slower path than an independent grocer's buyer.
absence = seen in neither the grocer's digital catalog nor our shelf photos (90 days); assortments move. fit reads the shelf, not the buying office — see route notes.