Reading the shelf…
Berkeley Bowl is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
Mountain Valley is a premium water brand known for its natural spring and sparkling waters, sourced from the Ouachita Mountains in the USA.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 8 SKUs across 2 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 2 categories to widen, replicated across all 2 stores.
Berkeley Bowl merchandises 3 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 60/100.
the categories it plays in are already deep here.
Every category Mountain Valley plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Berkeley Bowl. 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 6 of 8 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
On shelf here, but only 2 of 3 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Mountain Valley’s SKUs Berkeley Bowl doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.



Presence and depth are measured from Berkeley Bowl’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. Berkeley Bowl profile →
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
