- Visibility0
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality80
- AI readiness21
AI assistants do not name Hannaford Bros. Co. in any of their answers, while the typical company in the retail sector is named in 6.7% of answers. Its overall score is 26 out of 100, ranking 1,721st of 2,047 companies. The website passes 3 of 14 technical checks, which measures how prepared it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Hannaford Bros. Co. 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, Hannaford Bros. Co. 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
“Best grocery stores for quick family meal planning on a budget?”
Short answer — for quick, budget-friendly family meal planning in the U.S. pick a mix of: a low‑price discounter for weekly staples, a bulk/warehouse store for pantry & protein stockups, and a conventional supermarket for deals or specialty items. Top chains that repeatedly show up in price comparisons and meal‑planning guides are Aldi (or Lidl), Walmart, and Costco — with Kroger/its banners and Trader Joe’s useful for specific items or weekly bargains. (checkbook.org) …
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
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
Not by itself. Hannaford Bros. Co. 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
- MPPCould not check
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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 headersCould not check
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryPassed
SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationCould not check
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 rulesPassed
Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.
- 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 discoveryNot met
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 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 48 of 100 · 69% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · hannaford.com · 2,047 companies scanned
3 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%
- Not metToken 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 9 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*partly
- ClaudeBot*partly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extended*partly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgent*allowed
- FacebookBot*allowed
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBot*blocked
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBot*partly
- Applebot*partly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-User*partly
- Claude-Userpartly
- Perplexity-Userpartly
- DuckAssistBotpartly
- MistralAI-Userpartly
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.
- Is shopping at a full-service supermarket worth it for everyday groceries?
- Best grocery stores for quick family meal planning on a budget?
- How can I avoid long checkout lines at supermarkets during busy hours?
- Does getting groceries delivered from a US supermarket save money compared to in-store shopping?
- What are the best grocery stores in the US for affordable fresh produce and pantry staples?
- Where can I shop for household essentials and fresh food in one place?
- What are the most family-friendly supermarkets with convenient curbside pickup options?
- Where can families find supermarkets with a wide range of organic food options?
- Are loyalty programs at supermarkets actually worth it for savings on groceries?
- Supermarket vs discount grocery store: which is better for fresh fruits and vegetables?
- Where else can I buy affordable household essentials besides major grocery chains?
- What should I do if I can't find a specific item at my local grocery store?
- How do prices for organic produce compare across US supermarkets?
- How do neighborhood supermarkets compare to big-box stores for weekly grocery shopping?
- What are some alternatives to traditional supermarkets for grocery shopping?
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.