Reading the shelf…
Sprouts Farmers Market is a natural independent running 1 Bay Area store, mid-size at about 20,322 sq ft each, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
Quince And Apple: Quince & Apple offers a range of handcrafted conserves and pickled goods that emphasize the use of real fruit and thoughtfully sourced ingredients.
Quince And Apple isn’t on Sprouts Farmers Market’s shelf yet. The opening: 3 categories where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Quince & Apple Pickled Carrots & Habanero in Pickled Vegetables.
Sprouts Farmers Market stocks pickled vegetables 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 pickled vegetables: Sprouts Farmers Market stocks only 7 there, so Quince & Apple Pickled Carrots & Habanero stands out rather than blending in.
Sprouts Farmers Market merchandises 3 of the 4 categories the brand sells.
vegan, vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 70/100.
enters a thin pickled vegetables shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Quince And Apple plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Sprouts Farmers Market. Depth is the distinct SKUs the store carries there versus the fleet median, shown next to the rival brands already on that shelf.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
Quince And Apple’s SKUs Sprouts Farmers Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Sprouts Farmers Market’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. Sprouts Farmers Market profile →
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
