Mountain Fruit Company at Community Market CA
Community Market CA is a independent grocer running 1 Bay Area store.
Mountain Fruit Company is a brand specializing in natural fruit spreads and jams, crafted in California.
Mountain Fruit Company isn’t on Community Market CA’s shelf yet. The opening: 1 category where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Fruit Spread, Always Apricot in Fruit Spreads.
Community Market CA stocks fruit spreads thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 11 other Bay Area grocers.
Community Market CA merchandises 2 of the 2 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 30/100.
maps onto categories the store already runs.
The full runway
Every category Mountain Fruit Company plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Community Market CA. Depth is the distinct SKUs the store carries there versus the fleet median, shown next to the rival brands already on that shelf.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
How it prices
Where it would price in fruit spreads. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Mountain Fruit Company (orange) sits well above the shelf.
What to bring to land
Mountain Fruit Company’s SKUs Community Market CA doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Community Market CA’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. Community Market CA profile →
