Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Sabor Mexicano is an artisan food brand founded by Chef Jorge Saldana in 2011, specializing in handcrafted Mexican products like tortilla chips, salsas, and plant-based queso.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 1 SKU across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 3 new doors to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Home Made, Blue Corn Tortilla Chips in Tortilla Chips.
Pacific Market stocks tortilla chips thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 12 other Bay Area grocers.
Pacific Market carries potato chips in real depth, 109 SKUs against a fleet median of 46.5, so a new entry there is the Nth option, and its per-unit price would likely sit near the top of a crowded shelf.
Pacific Market merchandises 4 of the 5 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 60/100.
the categories it plays in are already deep here.
Every category Sabor Mexicano 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 1 of 4 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Where it would price in tortilla chips. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Sabor Mexicano (orange) sits well above the shelf.
Sabor Mexicano’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 →
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.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.