Starbucks at Safeway
Safeway is a conventional independent running 13 Bay Area stores, large-format at about 37,374 sq ft each, indexing high on established names versus other Bay Area grocers.
Starbucks is a prominent coffee brand offering a variety of coffee products for home brewing, including K-Cup pods and ground coffee.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 6 SKUs across 4 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 3 categories to widen and 4 new doors to enter, replicated across all 13 stores.
Safeway merchandises 10 of the 14 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 40/100.
maps onto categories the store already runs.
The full runway · across 13 stores
Every category Starbucks plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Safeway. 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 3 of 9 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
On shelf here, but only 1 of 40 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
What to bring to expand
Starbucks’ SKUs Safeway doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Already on the shelf
Presence and depth are measured from Safeway’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. Safeway profile →
