Reading the shelf…
Sprouts Farmers Market is a natural independent running 1 Bay Area store, mid-size at about 20,322 sq ft each, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 2 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen.
Lead with Plant-Based Butter Sticks in Non-Butter Oil Spreads.
Sprouts Farmers Market stocks non-butter oil spreads 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 non-butter oil spreads: Sprouts Farmers Market stocks only 6 there, so Melt Organic Plant-Based Butter Sticks stands out rather than blending in.
Sprouts Farmers Market merchandises 1 of the 1 category the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic, vegan against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 65/100.
enters a thin non-butter oil spreads shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Melt Organic plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Sprouts Farmers Market. 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 2 of 4 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Where it would price in non-butter oil spreads. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Melt Organic (orange) sits in line with the shelf.
Melt Organic’s SKUs Sprouts Farmers Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Sprouts Farmers 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. Sprouts Farmers Market profile →