Reading the shelf…
True Story Foods is a family-owned company that specializes in organic and natural meat products, including deli meats, sausages, and fresh pork. Founded in 2011 and based in Fairfield, California, the brand emphasizes humane animal raising practices and sustainability in its sourcing.
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 14 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
21 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 6 categories · 10 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are True Story (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as True Story · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to True Story 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 True Story lineup · on SF shelves first (cheapest first), then SKUs we've catalogued but haven't measured on a shelf here yet.
























Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show True Story· 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 True Story Organic Oven Roasted Turkey Breast · its most-distributed SKU (9 doors) in Deli Turkey, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Safeway · 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 58% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
33 storefronts across 14 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: dietz & watson, oscar mayer, boar's head
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 True Storythat 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: Deli Chicken, Frozen Breakfast Sausages, Hot Dogs · +4 more
open here: Deli Ham, Deli Turkey, Frozen Breakfast Sausages · +3 more
open here: Deli Chicken, Deli Ham, Frozen Breakfast Sausages · +3 more
open here: Frozen Breakfast Sausages, Hot Dogs, Other Prepared Chicken · +2 more
open here: Deli Ham, Other Prepared Chicken, Prosciutto · +2 more
open here: Deli Ham, Frozen Breakfast Sausages, Prosciutto · +2 more
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and True Story sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.