Reading the shelf…
The Laughing Cow runs 10 products across 1 category, stocked in 11 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is cheese, at 1% of the shelf. A niche presence · Brand Power 31/100.
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 11 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
10 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 Laughing Cow (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as The Laughing Cow · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to The Laughing Cow 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.
every The Laughing Cow product in stock, cheapest first.










Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show The Laughing Cow· 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 Laughing Cow Creamy Original Spreadable Cheese Wedges, 5.4 oz Box (8 Count) · its most-distributed SKU (9 doors) in Cheese Dips And Spreads, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Pacific Market · 4 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 22% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
35 storefronts across 11 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: kaukauna, mythreesons, alouette
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.
Bay Area stores already carrying The Laughing Cowthat meaningfully merchandise other categories it sells but isn't in here yet · ranked by open categories. A door already won, with room on adjacent shelves.
open here: Gouda
open here: Gouda
open here: Gouda
open here: Gouda
open here: Gouda
open here: Gouda
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and The Laughing Cow sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.