Reading the shelf…
Fairfax Market is a independent grocer running 1 Bay Area store.
West Life isn’t on Fairfax Market’s shelf yet. The opening: 1 category where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Organic Unsweetened Soymilk Plain, 9g of Protein in Soy Milk.
Fairfax Market stocks soy milk thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 11 other Bay Area grocers.
The more differentiated opening is soy milk: Fairfax Market stocks only 5 there, so West Life Organic Unsweetened Soymilk Plain, 9g of Protein stands out rather than blending in.
Fairfax Market merchandises 1 of the 1 category the brand sells.
non-gmo, organic, vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 50/100.
enters a thin soy milk shelf as a point of difference.
Every category West Life plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Fairfax 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.
Where it would price in soy milk. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per fl oz (hover for which). West Life (orange) sits well above the shelf.
West Life’s SKUs Fairfax Market doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Fairfax 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. Fairfax Market profile →