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Walgreens

walgreens.com · Retail · WAG

Ranked 444 of 2,047 companies in the study

39Overall score
  • Visibility35
  • Citations5
  • Sentiment59
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness21
What this means for Walgreens

AI assistants name Walgreens in 35% of answers, much more often than the typical retail company, which is named in 6.7% of answers. Walgreens has an overall score of 39 out of 100, ranking 444th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Walgreens. AI assistants named it in 21 of 60 answers (35.0%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Walgreens ranks 63 of 640 in its sector.

Named by AI in
35.0%
21 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
34.4%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
156 of 640
by overall score, where the typical retail company scores 34
How Walgreens compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
35

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
5

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
59

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with retail

640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score39
Ranks 156 of 640. Typical company: 34
Named in answers35%
Ranks 63 of 640. Typical company: 7%
AI readiness21
Ranks 351 of 640. Typical company: 29
What Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

“Where can I find affordable health and wellness products in the US?”

I can provide you with some general guidance on finding affordable health and wellness products in the US:

Retail Stores:

Discount chains: Walmart, Target, and Costco offer competitive prices on vitamins, supplements, and wellness items

Drug stores: CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid frequently have sales and loyalty programs that can reduce costs

Online retailers: Amazon often has competitive pricing with Prime shipping benefits

Specialty Options:

Vitamin/supplement retailers: iHerb, Vitacost, and The Vitamin Shoppe often have sales and bulk discounts

Warehouse …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
Rite Aid6
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Walmart Pharmacy
39.3%
Walgreens
37.5%
Rite Aid
10.7%
Kroger Pharmacy
7.1%
CVS Pharmacy
3.6%
Albertsons Pharmacy
1.8%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
6/15
OpenAI
6/15
Perplexity
5/15
Claude
4/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Can an AI agent buy here?

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.

  • UCPNot present
  • ACPCould not check
  • AP2Not present
  • x402Not present
  • MPPNot present
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardCould not check

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardCould not check

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsCould not check

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestCould not check

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 31 of 100 · 79% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.walgreens.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

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.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • 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%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • 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.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

cvs.com
30
walgreens.com (its own website)
25
justdial.com
22
goodrx.com
18
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
12
healthline.com
10
telyrx.com
9
express-scripts.com
6
brookings.edu
6
uhc.com
5

In the study as Consumer brands. Number 7 on the NRF Top 100 Retailers 2026 list, ranked by US retail sales.

Every question, and where the company came up (8 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Typical copay amounts for common prescription medications in the US
  • Where can I find affordable health and wellness products in the US?
  • Alternatives to traditional pharmacies for getting prescription medications
  • Are loyalty programs at pharmacy retailers effective for saving on wellness products?
  • Are premium photo printing services at health retailers worth the price for gifts?
  • Best ways to refill prescriptions online for quick pickup
  • What is the easiest way to schedule a flu shot at a local pharmacy?
  • Where else can you order custom photo gifts besides a retail pharmacy?
  • Is paying extra for automatic prescription refills worth it?
  • What should I do if my prescription refill isn't ready for pickup?
  • Best US retailers for everyday convenience goods and health essentials
  • How can I resolve issues with delayed prescription deliveries from a retail pharmacy?
  • How do mail order prescription services compare to local pickup for speed and reliability?
  • In-store vs online pharmacy services: which is more convenient?
  • How to order over-the-counter cold remedies for same-day pickup?
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

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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