Reading the shelf…
Seventh Generation is an American company known for its eco-friendly household and personal care products. Founded in 1988, the company is headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, and focuses on sustainability and renewable sourcing. It is a certified B Corporation and offers a range of products including laundry detergents, dish soaps, and baby diapers.
Brand Power (0-100) blends four shelf signals. Price position is shown below for context · a value↔premium read, not part of the score.
carried in 3 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
5 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 1 category. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Seventh Generation (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Seventh Generation · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Seventh Generation in what it makes — matched on product name, category & description across the whole catalog, wherever they’re sold. Not who it competes with on the shelf.
the full Seventh Generation lineup · on SF shelves first (cheapest first), then SKUs we've catalogued but haven't measured on a shelf here yet.
13 storefronts across 3 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Seventh Generation· but the shelf it belongs on is already there, ranked by fit. Fit blends category coverage, rival presence, price-band match, and openness to independents at this scale; weigh the footprint chips and route notes against it · a 7-door chain and a single great shop are different prizes. Our capture is partial, so a widely-distributed brand may already be carried through channels we don’t index.
Lead with Seventh Generation Hand Soap Mandarin Orange & Grapefruit Scent · its most-distributed SKU (2 doors) in Hand Soap, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Woodlands · 4 rivals already on that shelf.
~3% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 63% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: mrs. meyer's clean day, everyone, method
absence = seen in neither the grocer's digital catalog nor our shelf photos (90 days); assortments move. fit reads the shelf, not the buying office — see route notes.