Upper Crust Bakery at Safeway
Safeway is a conventional independent running 13 Bay Area stores, large-format at about 37,374 sq ft each, indexing high on established names versus other Bay Area grocers.
Upper Crust Bakery: Upper Crust is a grocery brand specializing in pies, known for their deep dish and flaky crusts made with fresh ingredients.
Upper Crust Bakery isn’t on Safeway’s shelf yet in any of its 13 stores. the categories it plays in are thin here, so it is a harder sell.
Safeway merchandises 2 of the 4 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 50/100.
maps onto categories the store already runs.
The full runway · across 13 stores
Every category Upper Crust Bakery plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Safeway. Depth is the distinct SKUs the store carries there versus the fleet median, shown next to the rival brands already on that shelf.
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.
What to bring to land
Upper Crust Bakery’s SKUs Safeway doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Safeway’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. Safeway profile →
