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We Asked 10 Store Chatbots the Same 12 Shopper Questions

Nov 9, 2026

We Asked 10 Store Chatbots the Same 12 Shopper Questions

On November 9 we put 12 ordinary shopper questions to the AI chat of 10 online stores and checked every reply against the store's own pages. 76 of 120 answers passed. Where they failed, and the list to run on your own bot.

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