Reading the shelf…
Target is a discount independent running 6 Bay Area stores, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
Toll House is a well-known brand specializing in baking ingredients and cookie dough products.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 3 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 1 new door to enter, replicated across all 6 stores.
Lead with Mini Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough in Cookie Doughs.
Target stocks cookie doughs thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 4 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is cookie doughs: Target stocks only 8 there, so Toll House Mini Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough stands out rather than blending in.
Target merchandises 3 of the 5 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 40/100.
enters a thin cookie doughs shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Toll House plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Target. 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 9 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
Toll House’s SKUs Target doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Target’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. Target profile →
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.