Reading the shelf…
Community Market CA is a independent grocer running 1 Bay Area store.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 6 SKUs across 3 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 3 new doors to enter.
Lead with Organic Nama Shoyu in Soy Sauces.
Community Market CA stocks soy sauces 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.
Community Market CA carries dried seaweed in real depth, 14 SKUs against a fleet median of 1, 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 soy sauces: Community Market CA stocks only 11 there, so Ohsawa Organic Nama Shoyu stands out rather than blending in. Lead with the soy sauces, and position the dried seaweed as a finishing or gift item.
Community Market CA merchandises 8 of the 8 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic, vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 50/100.
enters a thin soy sauces shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Ohsawa plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Community Market CA. 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 4 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 soy sauces. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per fl oz (hover for which). Ohsawa (orange) sits well above the shelf.
Ohsawa’s SKUs Community Market CA doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Community Market CA’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. Community Market CA profile →
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Fully stocked here (1/1 SKUs).
Fully stocked here (1/1 SKUs).
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.