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.
Sam's Adventure Snacks isn’t on Sprouts Farmers Market’s shelf yet. The opening: 4 categories where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Chocolate Hazelnut Butter in Hazelnut Spread.
Sprouts Farmers Market stocks hazelnut spread 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.
Sprouts Farmers Market carries peanut butter in real depth, 39 SKUs against a fleet median of 15, so a new entry there is the Nth option, and its per-unit price would likely sit near the top of a crowded shelf. The more differentiated opening is hazelnut spread: Sprouts Farmers Market stocks only 6 there, so Sam's Adventure Snacks Chocolate Hazelnut Butter stands out rather than blending in. Lead with the hazelnut spread, and position the peanut butter as a finishing or gift item.
Sprouts Farmers Market merchandises 5 of the 5 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 50/100.
enters a thin hazelnut spread shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Sam's Adventure Snacks 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.
Where it would price in hazelnut spread. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which).
Sam's Adventure Snacks’ 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.
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.