- Visibility47
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality60
- AI readiness29
AI assistants name the Defense Commissary Agency in 40% of answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 38 out of 100, ranking 522nd of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Defense Commissary Agency. AI assistants named it in 24 of 60 answers (40.0%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Defense Commissary Agency ranks 49 of 640 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What are the differences between military commissary grocery stores and civilian discount grocers?”
While both military commissaries and civilian discount grocers aim to save customers money, they operate under fundamentally different models, leading to significant differences in their operations, product selection, pricing, and overall customer experience.
Here's a breakdown of the key differences:
Military Commissary Grocery Stores
Primary Purpose: To provide a benefit to service members, retirees, and their families by offering groceries at cost (or very close to cost) plus a small surcharge to cover operating expenses like new construction and renovations. This is a component o …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.
- 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
Not by itself. Defense Commissary Agency publishes none of the purchase protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the checkout like a person.
- UCPNot present
- ACPNot present
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPNot present
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtNot met
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPartly met
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesNot met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryPartly met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourcePassed
Metadata telling agents which authorization server to use.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 13 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · shop.commissaries.com · 2,047 companies scanned
4 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- PassedOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- PassedOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as NRF Top 100 retailers. Number 85 on the NRF Top 100 Retailers 2026 list, ranked by US retail sales.
- What are the differences between military commissary grocery stores and civilian discount grocers?
- How do military commissary grocery stores compare to regular supermarkets for food prices?
- Is shopping at a military commissary worth it for retirees living near a base?
- What fees or surcharges should I expect when shopping at a military commissary grocery store?
- What other options exist for discounted food shopping for members of the military community?
- What are the alternatives for military families who don't live near a base with a commissary grocery store?
- Are the savings at military base grocery stores significant compared to national chains?
- How can veterans access affordable groceries if they are not close to military installations?
- Which types of grocery products tend to have the deepest discounts at military base stores?
- Can military spouses use on-base grocery stores if the service member is deployed?
- Why might my military base grocery order not be available for pickup?
- How do reserve members access grocery shopping benefits on military bases?
- What should I do if a specific product is out of stock at my local military grocery store?
- Where can active duty service members find discounted groceries on base?
- What are the best grocery stores for military families to save money on everyday items?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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