Agent Shopping Index · November 2026
What AI shoppers find on 37 US Shopify stores
We asked each store the questions a buyer asks an AI assistant before paying, on every route an assistant uses: the product page, the policy pages, the help pages, the product data search engines read, and the store’s own connection for AI agents. Checked on October 29, 2026.
19%
answer “when will it arrive, and what does delivery cost?” where assistants look first.
7 of 37 stores
19%
give a delivery time on the product page itself.
7 of 37 stores
57%
have a shipping policy page that is empty or missing.
21 of 37 stores
0%
answer the delivery question through their own AI agent connection when asked plainly.
0 of 37 stores
22%
advertise a first-order discount that needs an email address or a quiz answer first, which an assistant won’t give.
8 of 37 stores
62%
keep every route made for AI agents open.
23 of 37 stores
19%
answer the return question where assistants look first.
7 of 37 stores
How we checked
- 41 well-known US Shopify stores were listed by hand, across apparel, beauty, food and drink, home and accessories. 37 were checked, one at a time with a pause between each, on October 29, 2026. 4 were skipped and are not counted: 3 not confirmed as Shopify, 1 could not be reached.
- Every figure is a count out of 37; the raw counts are shown under each number. We publish totals only and never name a store.
- What “answered” means: a full answer on the product page, the home page or the store’s own agent connection when asked plainly, where assistants look first. “Buried” means the answer exists only on a policy or help page, or only when the agent connection is asked for the policy by name.
- Read-only: public pages and each store’s public agent connections. Nothing was bought or typed into any store.
- Delivery is asked for Austin, Texas 78701.
- Pages were read before their scripts ran, so delivery dates that apps add later are not counted.
- This edition ran without a browser, so it doesn’t count pop-ups.
- Any store can ask us to leave it out of future editions: hello@shopperzero.com.
- Corrections: none yet. If a figure is wrong, we correct it here with the date, and we leave the old figure visible.
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