Reading the shelf…
Wood River Creamery runs 5 products across 1 category, stocked in 5 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is cheese, at <1% of the shelf. A niche presence · Brand Power 18/100.
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 5 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
5 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 1 category · 2 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Wood River Creamery (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Wood River Creamery · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Wood River Creamery 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.
the full Wood River Creamery lineup · on SF shelves first (cheapest first), then SKUs we've catalogued but haven't measured on a shelf here yet.




14 storefronts across 5 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Wood River Creamery· 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 Wood River Creamery Cheese, Cheddar Gruyere, Black Truffle · its most-distributed SKU (3 doors) in Cheddar, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Rainbow Grocery Cooperative · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
~0% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 43% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
already on that shelf: tillamook, rumiano cheese company, milton creamery
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 Wood River Creamerythat 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: Gouda
open here: Gouda
open here: Cheddar
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Wood River Creamery sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.