Reading the shelf…
Mollie Stone's is a specialty grocery brand known for its diverse range of high-quality food products, including cakes and USDA Choice beef. The brand emphasizes sustainability and regenerative farming practices, offering products like Piedmontese Beef. Mollie Stone's also provides a variety of gourmet cakes, such as Tuxedo Cake and Black Forest Cake.
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 5 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
114 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 31 categories · 32 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Mollie Stone's (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Mollie Stone's · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
every Mollie Stone's product in stock, cheapest first.


































11 storefronts across 5 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Mollie Stone'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 Mollie Stone's Almond Sea Salt 54% Dark Chocolate · its most-distributed SKU (1 door) in Chocolate Candies, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Mill Valley Market · 3 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 48% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: stonewall kitchen, tillamook, field day
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.
Bay Area stores already carrying Mollie Stone'sthat meaningfully merchandise other categories it sells but isn't in here yet · ranked by open categories. A door already won, with room on adjacent shelves.
open here: Almonds, Apple Pie, Applesauce · +46 more
open here: Almonds, Angel Food Cake, Apple Pie · +45 more
open here: Almonds, Apple Pie, Applesauce · +43 more
open here: Almonds, Applesauce, Baguettes · +22 more
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Mollie Stone's sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.