- Visibility8
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality73
- AI readiness7
AI assistants name WinCo Foods in 6.7% of answers, which matches the typical company in the retail sector. The company has an overall score of 25 out of 100, placing it 1,784th of 2,047 companies. WinCo Foods' website passes 1 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named WinCo Foods. AI assistants named it in 4 of 60 answers (6.7%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, WinCo Foods ranks 301 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
“Where can families find low-price produce and pantry staples in the United States?”
Families in the United States seeking low-price produce and pantry staples have several excellent options, ranging from discount grocery chains to local farmers' markets.
Discount Grocery Stores
Several grocery store chains are known for their consistently low prices:
ALDI is frequently ranked as the cheapest grocery store for most households, with prices typically 15-30% below traditional supermarkets. This is largely due to their focus on private-label products, which make up about 90% of their inventory, and their no-frills operations. ALDI is particularly good for staples, d …
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. WinCo 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.txtNot met
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 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.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 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.wincofoods.com · 2,047 companies scanned
1 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%
- PassedToken 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 47 on the NRF Top 100 Retailers 2026 list, ranked by US retail sales.
- How can shoppers use discount supermarkets to plan affordable meal prep for large households?
- Where can families find low-price produce and pantry staples in the United States?
- What’s the best way to make a monthly grocery budget stretch further at a bulk-focused supermarket?
- How do discount supermarkets compare to traditional grocery stores in terms of selection and savings?
- How do prices at discount supermarkets typically compare to traditional grocery stores in the US?
- Is there a difference between bulk food stores and regular supermarkets when it comes to shopping for large families?
- Are prices usually lower when buying pantry staples in bulk at a US discount grocery store?
- What are some other ways to cut down on grocery costs besides shopping at discount supermarkets?
- Are neighborhood discount supermarkets worth it for shoppers focused on saving money every week?
- What can you do if your local low-cost grocery store doesn’t carry specific specialty items?
- What alternatives exist for shoppers who want low-cost groceries but don’t have access to a discount supermarket nearby?
- Why might a shopper not find certain name-brand products at a discount supermarket?
- Are there online options for bulk grocery shopping to save money if you can’t get to a physical discount store?
- Is buying in bulk at a discount supermarket a good way to lower grocery bills?
- What are the best supermarkets for affordable bulk groceries in the US?
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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