Can Your Customer's AI Get the Right Product Into the Cart on Your Shopify Store?

This is an independent consumer research project by Sergei Ponomarev under the AI Business name. It was not commissioned or funded by any store or technology vendor. It describes what an AI agent saw on the public pages of eight US Shopify stores on 11 November 2026 while carrying out one shopper's task under the researcher's supervision. A separate clean session was used for each store and received the shopper's questions one at a time. We stopped at the cart: no orders were placed, nothing was paid, no address or personal data was entered and no return was made. Before visiting any store we read its terms; of 82 stores whose terms we reviewed, we stopped at 62 because the terms restricted automated access or data collection (57 explicitly, 5 with wording we treated as a restriction under our rule). This is the result of our search, not a share of all Shopify stores. The report is not a ranking and not a recommendation for or against any store; stores are listed alphabetically. It does not assess the stores, their products, staff or compliance, and it gives no advice on pet feeding or health. Eight stores, one day and one AI agent are examples, not statistics. If a store finds a factual inaccuracy, please write to info@aibusiness.vc: confirmed corrections are published with a date. Version 1.0, 11 November 2026; the PDF's SHA-256 is published next to it.