Reading the shelf…
The Cumin Club specializes in ready-to-eat Indian meals that are crafted by expert chefs using high-quality, locally sourced ingredients and traditional recipes. Its offerings include a variety of vegetarian dishes that are all-natural, preservative-free, and designed for quick preparation, making them ideal for convenient, on-the-go meals. With options ranging from creamy North Indian classics to tangy South Indian favorites, The Cumin Club provides flavorful and satisfying meals that cater to diverse taste preferences.
Brand Power (0-100) blends four shelf signals. Price position is shown below for context · a value↔premium read, not part of the score.
carried in 2 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
12 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 1 category · 2 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are The Cumin Club (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as The Cumin Club · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to The Cumin Club in what it makes — matched on product name, category & description across the whole catalog, wherever they’re sold. Not who it competes with on the shelf.
the full The Cumin Club lineup · on SF shelves first (cheapest first), then SKUs we've catalogued but haven't measured on a shelf here yet.
3 storefronts across 2 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show The Cumin Club· but the shelf it belongs on is already there, ranked by fit. Fit blends category coverage, rival presence, price-band match, and openness to independents at this scale; weigh the footprint chips and route notes against it · a 7-door chain and a single great shop are different prizes. Our capture is partial, so a widely-distributed brand may already be carried through channels we don’t index.
Lead with The Cumin Club Dal Tadka Yellow Lentils, Instant Indian Meal, Medium · its most-distributed SKU (2 doors) in Shelf Stable Prepared Meals, the biggest opening. The closest open door is United Markets · 3 rivals already on that shelf.
~0% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
$6.53 average price. where it sits on price · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: sukhi's indian, kevin's natural foods, food earth
absence = seen in neither the grocer's digital catalog nor our shelf photos (90 days); assortments move. fit reads the shelf, not the buying office — see route notes.