Open Nature at Safeway
Safeway is a conventional independent running 13 Bay Area stores, large-format at about 37,374 sq ft each, indexing high on established names versus other Bay Area grocers.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 10 SKUs across 6 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 4 categories to widen and 5 new doors to enter, replicated across all 13 stores.
Lead with 85%/15% Angus Ground Beef in Ground Beef.
Safeway stocks ground beef 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.
The more differentiated opening is ground beef: Safeway stocks only 1 there, so Open Nature 85%/15% Angus Ground Beef stands out rather than blending in.
Safeway merchandises 15 of the 57 categories the brand sells.
cage-free, free-range, grass-fed against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 25/100.
enters a thin ground beef shelf as a point of difference.
The full runway · across 13 stores
Every category Open Nature plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Safeway. 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 5 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
On shelf here, but only 1 of 2 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
What to bring to expand
Open Nature’s SKUs Safeway doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Already on the shelf
Presence and depth are measured from Safeway’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. Safeway profile →
