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09/23/2026

Our shoppers walked into this Target last week auditing the RTD tea set for a client. The client’s brand wasn’t there. Neither were most of their competitors. The reorder algorithm reads an empty shelf as weak demand, and at the next reset some of these brands lose the slot for good. Nobody in the chain loses money on that except the brand. Send us your store list and we’ll help you recover missing revenue this month!

09/21/2026

Nobody cares about your brand like you do. 🎯
Your retailer cares about the category. Your distributor cares about velocity across hundreds of brands.

Their job is just bigger than you. But you’re the one writing the checks. 💸

Marketing. Inventory. Promos. Distribution.
So when sales come back soft, who pays?You. And the real answer is usually that nobody was watching the shelf. Own the shelf. Nobody else will. 🔍

09/17/2026

Four test stores. 40x the category average. Then Target called.

Ben Patton, co-founder and CEO of Saint Spritz thought the call might mean more Dallas doors. Instead Target wanted to go nationwide as soon as possible. And Ben’s first answer was no.

“Thank you, but no thank you. We’d prefer Texas only right now.”
The conventional advice is sound: don’t go wide until you’ve proven traction. But every category ends up with a number one and a number two. Coke and Pepsi. Poppi and Olipop. iPhone and Android. If Saint Spritz passed, two other brands were going to take those spots.
So Ben said yes, and picked up the distributors and markets it took to get there.

Full conversation with Ben on the Know Thy Shelf podcast. Link in bio.

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09/09/2026

What’s the downside of ai in retail? The system doesn’t know your product is sitting in the back room. It just knows it sold zero.

Three months of no sales on a SKU that never hit the shelf, and the reorder algorithm cuts you at the next reset. Nobody called. Nobody argued for you. It just happened.

That’s the new reality for emerging brands. The human who used to catch it has been replaced by a reorder rate.
Distributors ship it. Retailers give it a home. Everything after that is on your team.

You can’t manage a shelf you can’t see. That’s why Eileen exists.

08/18/2026

A store manager told me to get bent this week. He also made my argument better than I ever have.

He’s right. Retail employees are short staffed and don’t get paid extra to watch your SKU. Nobody in the store is compensated to care whether your product made it out of the back room.

It’s also the entire reason Eileen exists.

We care so they don’t have to.

06/16/2026

The one metric every CPG founder lives and dies by? Velocity. And as the co-founder of YOJU breaks down in this clip, velocity quietly collapses the moment your product isn’t on the shelf, or isn’t merchandised the way it’s supposed to be.
As Yoju scaled into national grocery; Safeway, Kroger, the big mainstream chains, one red flag kept resurfacing: pricing. The shelf reads $17.99. The brand set $13.99. That gap is margin, rate-of-sale, and shopper trust walking straight out the door and no HQ dashboard ever catches it.🎙️ Full episode out now — link in bio

05/25/2026

“It’s absolutely a priority. It’s the I think for, for any small brand in our position, given the competition and the, and the overall set, you can’t be sold where you’re not for sale. Right. So empty shelves are the, the worst sin.” is building and knows the importance of fighting for every placement.

04/13/2026

An executive did a market walk across California.

Found pricing wrong at every single store.

That was 5 stores. He called us.

We audited 865 locations across BevMo, Total W**e, Raley’s, Nob Hill, and Bel Air.

97.6% of records had the wrong price on shelf.
Only 21 of 865 were exactly right.

Same portfolio. Two products. Opposite problems.

One SKU was underpriced at 98% of locations.
A different SKU was overpriced at 97% of locations.

None of it showed up in distributor reports or scan data.

A store walk surfaced it.
An audit proved it.

Swipe to see the full breakdown. 👉

04/05/2026

⏱️1 minute Case Study: A fast growing non-alc brand came to 4 days before a category review with their 🎯 Target buyer.

They had confirmed distribution at 810 stores. Two SKUs in an end cap display program. A meeting on the calendar that would determine their future at the chain.

They wanted to know what was actually on their shelves before they walked into that room.

We audited 303 stores. Here’s what we found:

→ 25.3% not-found rate 💣
→ 77 locations with zero product on shelf 🔥
→ $10,626 in confirmed revenue gap across the audited stores alone 💸
→ $28,290 projected across their full 810-store footprint

Don’t leave success up to other people. Own your brand and own your ex*****on! DM us for a free trial. 🛒📊

03/25/2026

This one is for the CPG founders! Your product is listed as in stock.

Is it though?

Swipe to see the gap most brands only find out about at their category review ⬆️

Any store. 2–5 business days.
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