- Visibility0
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality73
- AI readiness29
AI assistants do not name Cub Foods in any of their answers, while the typical company in its sector is named in 6.7% of answers. Its overall score is 25 out of 100, ranking 1,823rd of 2,047 companies. The website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Cub Foods. AI assistants named it in none of 60 answers. The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Cub Foods ranks 503 of 640 in its sector.
Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its rivals.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named
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.
The company is not named in this answer
“Where can I find value-focused supermarkets that offer home delivery”
Many value-focused supermarkets and services offer home delivery, making it convenient to get affordable groceries. Here are some of the top options:
1. General Value-Focused Supermarkets with Delivery:
Walmart Grocery Delivery: Walmart is known for its everyday low prices and frequent online specials. They offer a broad product range, including fresh produce, pantry staples, and household essentials, with same-day delivery available in many locations. A Walmart+ subscription can provide free delivery on all Walmart.com orders.
Amazon Fresh: This service offers a v …
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 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
Not by itself. Cub Foods 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.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced 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.txtCould not check
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly 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 CatalogCould not check
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryCould not check
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdCould not check
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardCould not check
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardCould not check
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsCould not check
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 41 of 100 · 60% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.cub.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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- Passedrobots.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%
- PassedExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth 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%
This website sets rules for 7 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBotblocked
- ClaudeBotblocked
- Anthropic-AIblocked
- Google-Extendedblocked
- Applebot-Extendedblocked
- Meta-ExternalAgent*blocked
- FacebookBot*blocked
- Bytespiderblocked
- CCBotblocked
- Diffbotblocked
- Omgilibotblocked
- OAI-SearchBot*partly
- Claude-SearchBotblocked
- PerplexityBot*blocked
- Applebot*partly
- Amazonbotblocked
- YouBotblocked
- ChatGPT-User*allowed
- Claude-Userblocked
- Perplexity-User*blocked
- DuckAssistBotblocked
- MistralAI-Userblocked
Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as US retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.
- Where can I find value-focused supermarkets that offer home delivery
- Where else can you get affordable over-the-counter medications besides grocery pharmacies
- Differences between specialty grocery stores and general supermarkets in the US
- What to do if your online grocery order has missing items
- Tips for maximizing savings when shopping for a family at a value-oriented grocery store
- Local supermarket vs big box store for affordable weekly grocery shopping
- Alternatives to traditional supermarkets for fresh grocery delivery
- Are weekly ad deals at supermarkets a good way to save on groceries
- How to resolve prescription refill issues at a pharmacy inside a grocery store
- Other ways to access weekly grocery deals without visiting a physical store
- Best places to buy fresh groceries with pharmacy services in the US
- Best way to shop for allergies or dietary needs at a large supermarket
- Average price difference between in-store and online grocery shopping in the US
- Is it worth using online grocery shopping with curbside pickup
- How do pharmacy prices at supermarkets compare to standalone pharmacies
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.