oaktown spice shop
Oaktown Spice Shop is a specialty retailer based in Oakland, California, known for its high-quality spices, herbs, and hand-mixed blends. Founded in 2011, the shop emphasizes freshness by grinding spices in small batches and sourcing the best-tasting spices from around the globe.
Shelf presence
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 2 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
39 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 6 categories · 22 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
Where it owns shelf
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Oaktown Spice Shop (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
Top competitors
the brands crowding the same categories as Oaktown Spice Shop · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
Most similar brands
closest to Oaktown Spice Shop 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.
The lineup
the full Oaktown Spice Shop lineup · on SF shelves first (cheapest first), then SKUs we've catalogued but haven't measured on a shelf here yet.
Sold at
Find Oaktown Spice Shop online
Where to find Oaktown Spice Shop · Bay Area
8 storefronts across 2 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Opportunities
New doors · no Oaktown Spice Shop in our capture yet
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Oaktown Spice Shop· 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 Oaktown Spice Shop Umami Sea Salt · its most-distributed SKU (2 doors) in Salts, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Berkeley Bowl · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
