Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Simple Mills is a Chicago-based food brand that specializes in creating better-for-you snacks and baking mixes using whole-food ingredients.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 7 SKUs across 6 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 4 categories to widen and 7 new doors to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Almond Flour Banana Muffin & Bread Baking Mix in Muffin Mixes.
Pacific Market stocks muffin mixes 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.
The more differentiated opening is muffin mixes: Pacific Market stocks only 4 there, so Simple Mills Almond Flour Banana Muffin & Bread Baking Mix stands out rather than blending in.
Pacific Market merchandises 13 of the 16 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic, vegan against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 70/100.
enters a thin muffin mixes shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Simple Mills 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 2 of 20 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
On shelf here, but only 1 of 8 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Simple Mills’ 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 →
On shelf here, but only 1 of 4 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fully stocked here (1/1 SKUs).
Fully stocked here (1/1 SKUs).
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
