Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
RXBAR is a brand specializing in protein snacks made with simple, whole-food ingredients.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 3 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 1 new door to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Coconut Chocolate Protein Bar, 12g Protein in Protein Bars.
Pacific Market stocks protein bars thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 10 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is protein bars: Pacific Market stocks only 6 there, so RXBAR Coconut Chocolate Protein Bar, 12g Protein stands out rather than blending in.
Pacific Market merchandises 2 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 70/100.
enters a thin protein bars shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Rxbar plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Pacific Market. 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 3 of 23 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Where it would price in protein bars. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Rxbar (orange) sits above the shelf.
Rxbar’s SKUs Pacific Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Pacific 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. Pacific Market profile →
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.