Starter Bakery at Woodlands
Woodlands is a specialty independent running 3 Bay Area stores, small-format at about 2,336 sq ft each, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
Starter Bakery is a bakery brand known for its handcrafted pastries and breads, including iconic kouign amann, brioche loaves, and multigrain pan loaves.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 4 SKUs across 3 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 2 categories to widen and 9 new doors to enter, replicated across all 3 stores.
Lead with Brioche Buns in Other Buns And Rolls.
Woodlands stocks other buns and rolls thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 3 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is other buns and rolls: Woodlands stocks only 7 there, so Starter Bakery Brioche Buns stands out rather than blending in.
Woodlands merchandises 15 of the 17 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 50/100.
enters a thin other buns and rolls shelf as a point of difference.
The full runway · across 3 stores
Every category Starter Bakery plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Woodlands. 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 3 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
On shelf here, but only 1 of 3 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
What to bring to expand
Starter Bakery’s SKUs Woodlands doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Already on the shelf
How to get on the shelf · Woodlands
enriched 2026-09-05Presence and depth are measured from Woodlands’ 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. Woodlands profile →
