Talbots at 0.77 is the strongest pull in Duck Donuts' top 10 — and it's a women's apparel retailer, not another bakery or dessert brand. The shape flag is two-peak, and the data bears that out: the neighbor set divides into two distinct clusters with no overlap between them.
The first cluster is apparel. Four of the top five neighbors carry an Apparel category label: Talbots (0.77) and Francesca's (0.75) in Womens Apparel, and Jockey (0.73) and Eddie Bauer (0.71) in General Apparel. The second cluster is personal services and wellness: Fred Astaire Dance Studios (0.75), Deka Lash (0.71), and Massage Heights (0.70) all sit in fitness or cosmetic-services subcategories. These two clusters — apparel retail and personal-care services — define the two peaks the shape flag identifies.
Five Guys (0.71) is the only other restaurant or eatery in the top 10, and it's Fast Casual Dining, not the same Bakeries Desserts and Confectioneries subcategory as Duck Donuts. Hallmark Cards (0.70) and Dogfish Head Brewery (0.69) round out the set as outliers from Hobbies Gifts and Crafts and Breweries respectively. No neighbor in the top 10 shares Duck Donuts' own subcategory.
The audience Duck Donuts draws looks structurally more like the audience for women's apparel and personal-care services than for any other food or dessert brand in the top 10.