Reading the shelf…
Community Market CA is a independent grocer running 1 Bay Area store.
Redmond is a brand known for its natural and unrefined products, primarily focusing on spices and personal care items.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 2 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen.
Lead with Sea Salt, Kosher, Ancient in Salts.
Community Market CA stocks salts thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 2 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is salts: Community Market CA stocks only 13 there, so Redmond Sea Salt, Kosher, Ancient stands out rather than blending in.
Community Market CA merchandises 2 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
organic against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 50/100.
enters a thin salts shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Redmond 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 2 of 5 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
Where it would price in salts. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Redmond (orange) sits in line with the shelf.
Redmond’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 →
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
