Western Family at Berkeley Bowl
Berkeley Bowl is a specialty independent running 2 Bay Area stores, indexing high on clean-organic versus other Bay Area grocers.
Western Family is a grocery brand known for its range of canned and frozen vegetables, as well as other pantry staples.
Western Family isn’t on Berkeley Bowl’s shelf yet in any of its 2 stores. The opening: 13 categories where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Fancy Green Beans Cut in Canned Green Beans.
Berkeley Bowl stocks canned green beans 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.
Berkeley Bowl carries olives in real depth, 115 SKUs against a fleet median of 19.5, 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 canned green beans: Berkeley Bowl stocks only 7 there, so Western Family Fancy Green Beans Cut stands out rather than blending in. Lead with the canned green beans, and position the olives as a finishing or gift item.
Berkeley Bowl merchandises 13 of the 13 categories the brand sells.
vegetarian against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 20/100.
enters a thin canned green beans shelf as a point of difference.
The full runway · across 2 stores
Every category Western Family plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Berkeley Bowl. 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.
What to bring to land
Western Family’s SKUs Berkeley Bowl doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Presence and depth are measured from Berkeley Bowl’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. Berkeley Bowl profile →