Reading the shelf…
Sprouts Farmers Market is a natural independent running 1 Bay Area store, mid-size at about 20,322 sq ft each, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
Verve Coffee is a specialty coffee brand known for its craft coffee blends, which are hand-roasted daily.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 2 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen.
Lead with Seabright Whole Bean Coffee Blend in Whole Bean Coffee.
Sprouts Farmers Market stocks whole bean coffee thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 10 other Bay Area grocers.
Sprouts Farmers Market merchandises 1 of the 1 category the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 70/100.
maps onto categories the store already runs.
Every category Verve Coffee plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Sprouts Farmers Market. 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 2 of 10 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Where it would price in whole bean coffee. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per oz (hover for which). Verve Coffee (orange) sits well above the shelf.
Verve Coffee’s SKUs Sprouts Farmers Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Sprouts Farmers 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. Sprouts Farmers Market profile →