Reading the shelf…
Mother's is a brand specializing in small-batch, handmade salsas and condiments. Their products are vegan, gluten-free, and made without seed oils, emphasizing natural ingredients. The brand is known for its flavorful salsas such as Chile de Arbol Salsa and Salsa Tatemada.
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 7 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
5 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 3 categories · 4 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Mother's (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Mother's · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Mother'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 Mother's product in stock, cheapest first.
20 storefronts across 7 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Mother'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 Mother's Original Circus Animal Cookies · its most-distributed SKU (2 doors) in Packaged Cookies, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Fairfax Market · 2 rivals already on that shelf.
~0% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 41% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: salsa for all seasons, los roast
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 Mother'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: Pickled Vegetables, Salsas
open here: Packaged Cookies, Pickled Vegetables
open here: Pickled Vegetables, Salsas
open here: Packaged Cookies
open here: Packaged Cookies
open here: Packaged Cookies
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Mother's sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.