For retail
Be the store an agent can check stock and send a buyer to.
Shopping assistants now check what's in stock near the customer, what it costs, and whether they can pick it up today. Google tells retailers that keeping Merchant Center current is part of showing up in AI answers, and agents increasingly check out from that same product data.
We make stores readable to that flow: products, prices, hours, and pickup options as data and as plain text, kept in step with your shelves.
What an agent needs from you
- A current Merchant Center feed with local inventory, prices, and availability that match the store.
- Products, prices, store hours, and pickup or same-day options in HTML text on your site, not only in a shopping widget.
- Holiday and Balloon Fiesta hours published ahead of time, identical on your site, Google, Apple, and Bing.
- A checkout or reserve path an agent can complete, or a clear "call to hold" instruction with a number that is answered during open hours.
What your customers ask
- Where near Uptown can I buy a swamp cooler pump today?
- Find a gift shop in Old Town that sells local green chile products and is open Sunday.
- Which stores near me have this in stock for pickup today?
Where agents look
Google Merchant Center and your product feed
Current products with local inventory are Google's stated path into AI shopping answers, and the feed agents check for price and availability.
Google Business Profile products and attributes
Products on your profile, store hours, and in-store pickup and same-day attributes are the facts a local agent quotes.
Instagram
One of the most-cited social sources for local businesses. Keep the handle linked in your site's structured data and listings.
Trust, reviews, and the rules
- Feed prices and site prices must match the shelf. An agent that quotes a wrong price once stops trusting the feed.
- Reviews: ask every buyer the same way, reply to every review, and never pay for praise in any form.
- Don't list products or locations you don't stock or occupy. Agents cross-check against your profile and your feed.
What this usually costs with us
- Agent Readiness Check: Free
- Growth Site: from $3,500
- AI Visibility Monitor: from $279/mo
- Care Plus with hosting and edits: from $149/mo
All prices are before New Mexico gross receipts tax. Full pricing and terms →
Retail questions
Do we need an online store for this to work?
Not necessarily. You need machine-readable product and price data and a clear next step: buy online, reserve for pickup, or call to hold. A full e-commerce build is one option; a current Merchant Center feed plus honest pickup instructions covers many Albuquerque stores.
What matters most for a small store?
Current products and prices in Merchant Center, products and pickup attributes on your Google Business Profile, and hours that never drift between your site and your listings. That combination is what an agent needs to send you a buyer today.
Find out what AI agents see when they look at your business.
Send us your website and we'll check whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini can find, understand, and book you. Free, with a short report on what to fix first.