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.
Wooden Table Baking Co. isn’t on Sprouts Farmers Market’s shelf yet. The opening: 2 categories where the shelf is already deep and the brand runs strong elsewhere.
Lead with Wooden Table Baking Co Alfajores Snickerdoodle Cookie Vanilla in Snickerdoodles.
Sprouts Farmers Market stocks snickerdoodles 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.
The more differentiated opening is snickerdoodles: Sprouts Farmers Market stocks only 3 there, so Wooden Table Baking Co Alfajores Snickerdoodle Cookie Vanilla stands out rather than blending in.
Sprouts Farmers Market merchandises 2 of the 3 categories the brand sells.
non-gmo against the store's assortment lean.
brand excitement 55/100.
enters a thin snickerdoodles shelf as a point of difference.
Every category Wooden Table Baking Co. 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.
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.
Wooden Table Baking Co.’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 →
The store barely carries this category, so it is a hard sell.