Reading the shelf…
Wel-pac runs 12 products across 8 categories, stocked in 7 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is canned seafood, at <1% of the shelf. A mid-tier presence · Brand Power 42/100.
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 7 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
12 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 8 categories · 11 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Wel-pac (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Wel-pac · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Wel-pac 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 Wel-pac product in stock, cheapest first.












13 storefronts across 7 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Wel-pac· 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 Wel-Pac Chinese Noodles · its most-distributed SKU (2 doors) in Instant Noodles, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Woodlands · 2 rivals already on that shelf.
~3% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 44% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: muso from japan, lotus foods
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 Wel-pacthat 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: Canned Sardines, Corn Starch, Egg Noodles · +3 more
open here: Canned Mackerel, Canned Sardines, Corn Starch · +3 more
open here: Canned Sardines, Egg Noodles, Instant Noodles · +2 more
open here: Egg Noodles, Instant Noodles, Other Flours · +2 more
open here: Dried Seaweed, Instant Noodles, Udon Noodles
open here: Canned Sardines, Egg Noodles, Other Flours
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Wel-pac sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.