Reading the shelf…
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.
Tate's Bake Shop is a renowned American bakery brand known for its thin, crispy cookies, especially the signature chocolate chip variety.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 9 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 1 new door to enter, replicated across all 13 stores.
Lead with Oatmeal Raisin Cookies 7 oz in Packaged Cookies.
Safeway stocks packaged cookies thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 12 other Bay Area grocers.
Safeway merchandises 2 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 65/100.
maps onto categories the store already runs.
Every category Tate's 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 9 of 26 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Where it would price in packaged cookies. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Tate's (orange) sits well above the shelf.
Tate's’ SKUs Safeway doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
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 →
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
