Reading the shelf…
Berkeley Bowl is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
Nuttzo is a brand specializing in organic, multi-nut and seed butters. Their products are known for being rich in protein, gluten-free, and made without added sugars or palm oil.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 3 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 1 new door to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Organic 7 Nut & Seed Butter, Power Fuel Crunchy, 26 oz in Other Nut Butters.
Berkeley Bowl stocks other nut butters thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 1 other Bay Area grocer.
Berkeley Bowl carries almond butter in real depth, 36 SKUs against a fleet median of 11, so a new entry there is the Nth option, and its per-unit price would likely sit near the top of a crowded shelf. The more differentiated opening is other nut butters: Berkeley Bowl stocks only 10 there, so Nuttzo Organic 7 Nut & Seed Butter, Power Fuel Crunchy, 26 oz stands out rather than blending in. Lead with the other nut butters, and position the almond butter as a finishing or gift item.
Berkeley Bowl merchandises 3 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 70/100.
enters a thin other nut butters shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Nuttzo 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 3 of 6 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Where it would price in other nut butters. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Nuttzo (orange) sits in line with the shelf.
Nuttzo’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.