Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Smash Foods is a brand specializing in superfood fruit spreads and snack bites that emphasize natural ingredients and nutritional value.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 1 SKU 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 Strawberry Superfood Fruit Spread in Fruit Spreads.
Pacific Market stocks fruit spreads thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 9 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is fruit spreads: Pacific Market stocks only 8 there, so Smash Foods Strawberry Superfood Fruit Spread stands out rather than blending in.
Pacific Market merchandises 3 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, vegan, vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 60/100.
enters a thin fruit spreads shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Smash Foods 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 14 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Where it would price in fruit spreads. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Smash Foods (orange) sits well above the shelf.
Smash Foods’ 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.