Reading the shelf…
Michele's runs 2 products across 2 categories, stocked in a single Bay Area grocer. Its biggest footprint is ice cream toppings, at 1% of the shelf. A niche presence · Brand Power 12/100.
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 1 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
2 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 2 categories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Michele's (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Michele's · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
every Michele's product in stock, cheapest first.
5 storefronts across 1 grocer carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Michele'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 Michele's Syrup, Butter Pecan, Gourmet · its most-distributed SKU (1 door) in Ice Cream Syrups And Sauces, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Fairfax Market · 1 rival already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
$6.99 average price. where it sits on price · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: best yet
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.