- Visibility6
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality60
- AI readiness0
AI assistants rarely name Stater Bros, mentioning it in 2 out of 60 answers. Its overall score is 22 out of 100, ranking 1,978th of 2,047 companies in the study. The website passes 0 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Stater Bros. AI assistants named it in 2 of 60 answers (3.3%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Stater Bros ranks 392 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.
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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
“Best places for affordable weekly family grocery shopping in Southern California?”
I'll search for information about affordable grocery shopping options for families in Southern California.Based on recent data, here are the best affordable grocery shopping options for families in Southern California:
Best Budget-Friendly Stores
Top Value Options:
Costco offers prices about 20% lower than Walmart, while WinCo is 4.3% cheaper and Aldi is 4% cheaper. A weekly grocery bill of $200 at Walmart could drop to about $160 at Costco.
Other Affordable Chains:
Grocery Outlet, Food4Less, Sprouts Farmers Market, ALDI, and Trader Joe's are popular affordable options in South …
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.
This website turned most of our scan away, so it has no level. None of the checks could run. That reflects the website’s rules for automated visitors, and an AI agent arriving by itself meets the same rules.
We could not tell. The website turned away our requests for the files an agent would read. An agent arriving by itself is turned away the same way.
- UCPCould not check
- ACPCould not check
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPCould not check
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtCould not check
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- study: 86.8%SitemapCould not check
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it 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 DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- 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 rulesCould not check
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsCould not check
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthCould not check
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 ResourceCould not check
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 manifestCould not check
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
0% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · www.staterbros.com · 2,047 companies scanned
0 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%
- Not metXML 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%
- Not metExplicit 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%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as NRF Top 100 retailers. Number 86 on the NRF Top 100 Retailers 2026 list, ranked by US retail sales.
- Why do some supermarkets run out of advertised sale items so quickly?
- How do grocery prices in Southern California compare to the national average?
- Are farmers markets a good alternative to supermarkets for affordable fresh food?
- Where can I shop for groceries if I want to avoid large supermarket chains?
- Best places for affordable weekly family grocery shopping in Southern California?
- How do warehouse club stores compare to local supermarkets for grocery shopping?
- Where can I find a supermarket with a full-service bakery and deli counter?
- How can I avoid long checkout lines at busy neighborhood grocery stores?
- What are alternatives to traditional supermarkets for buying fresh produce?
- Is it worth paying extra for premium fresh meats at neighborhood grocery stores?
- Supermarket vs discount grocer: Which is better for families on a tight budget?
- Are weekly grocery specials at supermarkets actually good deals?
- Which supermarkets in the US offer the widest selection of organic groceries?
- What is the average price difference between chain supermarkets and independent grocers?
- What are the best places to buy fresh produce in Southern California?
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.