Reading the shelf…
Traditional Medicinals is a leading provider of organic and herbal teas, founded in 1974 by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar and activist Drake Sadler. Based in Sebastopol, California, the company emphasizes sustainability and ethical sourcing, offering a range of popular tea products designed to support health and wellness.
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 20 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
55 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 Traditional Medicinals (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Traditional Medicinals · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Traditional Medicinals 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 Traditional Medicinals product in stock, cheapest first.








































Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Traditional Medicinals· 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 Traditional Medicinals Organic Throat Coat, Caffeine Free Herbal Tea · its most-distributed SKU (18 doors) in Herbal Tea, the biggest opening. The closest open door is The Epicurean Trader.
~2% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 70% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
49 storefronts across 20 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
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 Traditional Medicinalsthat 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: Beverages, Green Tea
open here: Green Tea
open here: Green Tea
open here: Green Tea
open here: Green Tea
open here: Green Tea
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Traditional Medicinals sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.