Reading the shelf…
The Maine Pie Co runs 3 products across 2 categories, stocked in 2 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is frozen desserts, at 1% of the shelf. A niche presence · Brand Power 15/100.
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 2 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
3 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 2 categories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are The Maine Pie Co (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as The Maine Pie Co · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to The Maine Pie Co 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 Maine Pie Co product in stock, cheapest first.
6 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 Maine Pie Co· 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 Maine Pie Co Ready-To-Bake 9" Pie Shells 2 Pack · its most-distributed SKU (1 door) in Frozen Pie Crusts, the biggest opening. The closest open door is United Markets · 3 rivals already on that shelf.
~1% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
$23.32 average price. where it sits on price · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: marie callender's, mrs. smith's, sara lee
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 Maine Pie Cothat 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 = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and The Maine Pie Co sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.