Reading the shelf…
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.
Tasty Bite is a brand that specializes in ready-to-eat Indian and pan-Asian food products, founded in 1985 and headquartered in Pune, India, with operations in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 8 SKUs across 5 categories. The growth is depth and breadth: 2 categories to widen, replicated across all 3 stores.
Lead with Bombay Potatoes in Shelf Stable Prepared Meals.
Woodlands stocks shelf stable prepared meals 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 shelf stable prepared meals: Woodlands stocks only 6 there, so Tasty Bite Bombay Potatoes stands out rather than blending in.
Woodlands merchandises 6 of the 6 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic, vegan against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 50/100.
enters a thin shelf stable prepared meals shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Tasty Bite 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 26 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
On shelf here, but only 1 of 3 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Where it would price in shelf stable prepared meals. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Tasty Bite (orange) sits in line with the shelf.
Tasty Bite’s SKUs Woodlands doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence 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 →
Fully stocked here (2/2 SKUs).
Fully stocked here (2/2 SKUs).
Fully stocked here (1/1 SKUs).
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.

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