Reading the shelf…
Mountain Valley is a premium water brand known for its natural spring and sparkling waters, sourced from the Ouachita Mountains in the USA. Established in 1871, the brand emphasizes quality by bottling its water in glass to maintain its natural mineral balance and taste. Mountain Valley offers a range of products including still and sparkling waters, available in various sizes and packaging options.
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 18 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
14 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 3 categories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Mountain Valley (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Mountain Valley · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Mountain Valley 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 Mountain Valley product in stock, cheapest first.












Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Mountain Valley· 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 THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY Sparkling Spring Water Glass Bottles, 1Liter, Single · its most-distributed SKU (17 doors) in Sparkling Water, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Pacific Market · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 64% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
43 storefronts across 18 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: san pellegrino, crystal geyser, bawi
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 Mountain Valleythat 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: Beverages
open here: Beverages
open here: Spring Water
open here: Spring Water
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Mountain Valley sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.