Reading the shelf…
Pacific Market is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores.
Uglies Kettle Chips isn’t on Pacific Market’s shelf yet in any of its 2 stores. The opening: 2 categories where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Sweet Potato in Vegetable Chips.
Pacific Market stocks vegetable chips thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 1 other Bay Area grocer.
Pacific Market carries potato chips in real depth, 109 SKUs against a fleet median of 46.5, so a new entry there is the Nth option, and its per-unit price would likely sit near the top of a crowded shelf. The more differentiated opening is vegetable chips: Pacific Market stocks only 12 there, so Uglies Kettle Chips Sweet Potato stands out rather than blending in. Lead with the vegetable chips, and position the potato chips as a finishing or gift item.
Pacific Market merchandises 2 of the 2 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo, vegan, vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 65/100.
enters a thin vegetable chips shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Uglies Kettle Chips plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Pacific Market. Depth is the distinct SKUs the store carries there versus the fleet median, shown next to the rival brands already on that shelf.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
Not here yet, but the shelf is real: a clean first door into a category the brand runs deep in.
Where it would price in vegetable chips. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which).
Uglies Kettle Chips’ SKUs Pacific Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Pacific Market’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. Pacific Market profile →