Taylor Farms at Berkeley Bowl
Berkeley Bowl is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
Taylor Farms is a brand specializing in prepared salads and salad kits, offering a variety of flavors and organic options.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 3 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 10 new doors to enter, replicated across all 2 stores.
Lead with Asian Chopped Salad Kit in Bagged Salad Kits.
Berkeley Bowl stocks bagged salad kits thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 7 other Bay Area grocers.
Berkeley Bowl carries fresh salsa in real depth, 22 SKUs against a fleet median of 10, so a new entry there is the Nth option, and its per-unit price would likely sit near the top of a crowded shelf. The more differentiated opening is bagged salad kits: Berkeley Bowl stocks only 9 there, so Taylor Farms Asian Chopped Salad Kit stands out rather than blending in. Lead with the bagged salad kits, and position the fresh salsa as a finishing or gift item.
Berkeley Bowl merchandises 14 of the 22 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic, vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 40/100.
enters a thin bagged salad kits shelf as a point of difference.
The full runway · across 2 stores
Every category Taylor Farms plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Berkeley Bowl. 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 32 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
How it prices
Where it would price in bagged salad kits. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Taylor Farms (orange) sits in line with the shelf.
What to bring to expand
Taylor Farms’ SKUs Berkeley Bowl 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 Berkeley Bowl’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. Berkeley Bowl profile →
