Reading the shelf…
Sprouts Farmers Market is a natural independent running 1 Bay Area store, mid-size at about 20,322 sq ft each, indexing high on clean-organic 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 6 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 1 new door to enter.
Lead with Oatmeal Raisin Cookies 7 oz in Packaged Cookies.
Sprouts Farmers Market 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.
Sprouts Farmers Market 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 Sprouts Farmers Market. 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 6 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 in line with the shelf.
Tate's’ SKUs Sprouts Farmers Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Sprouts Farmers Market’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. Sprouts Farmers Market profile →
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
