Reading the shelf…
Star Anise Foods runs 4 products across 3 categories, stocked in 9 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is doughs, at 3% of the shelf. A niche presence · Brand Power 27/100.
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 9 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
4 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 3 categories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Star Anise Foods (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Star Anise Foods · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
every Star Anise Foods product in stock, cheapest first.




17 storefronts across 9 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Star Anise Foods· 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 Star Anise Foods Simmer Sauce, Vietnamese, Roasted Peanut · its most-distributed SKU (2 doors) in Curry Sauces, the biggest opening. The closest open door is United Markets · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 66% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: roland foods, twin dragon, ocean's halo
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.
Bay Area stores already carrying Star Anise Foodsthat meaningfully merchandise other categories it sells but isn't in here yet · ranked by open categories. A door already won, with room on adjacent shelves.
open here: Curry Sauces, Rice Noodles
open here: Curry Sauces, Rice Noodles
open here: Curry Sauces, Rice Noodles
open here: Curry Sauces, Rice Noodles
open here: Curry Sauces, Rice Noodles
open here: Rice Noodles
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Star Anise Foods sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.