Reading the shelf…
Nielsen-Massey is a renowned brand specializing in high-quality vanilla extracts, pastes, and flavors. Known for its meticulous sourcing and proprietary cold extraction process, the brand offers products that are favored by both home bakers and professional chefs. Nielsen-Massey emphasizes purity and consistency, sourcing vanilla beans from regions like Madagascar, Mexico, Uganda, and Tahiti.
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 13 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
17 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 5 categories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Nielsen-massey (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Nielsen-massey · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Nielsen-massey 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 Nielsen-massey product in stock, cheapest first.










Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Nielsen-massey· 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 Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract · its most-distributed SKU (5 doors) in Vanilla Extract, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Berkeley Bowl · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
~5% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 74% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
28 storefronts across 13 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: morton & bassett spices, simply organic, mccormick
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 Nielsen-masseythat 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: Almond Extract, Dried Vanilla Bean, Flavored or Infused Waters · +1 more
open here: Almond Extract, Other Pastes
open here: Dried Vanilla Bean, Flavored or Infused Waters
open here: Flavored or Infused Waters, Vanilla Extract
open here: Dried Vanilla Bean, Vanilla Extract
open here: Other Pastes
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Nielsen-massey sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.