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When Charlotte shoppers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode about running shoes, none of the 30 answers names REI. #10 of 51 local running stores; AI names Run For Your Life in 27.

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AI answers that name it0 of 30
  • ChatGPT0 of 10
  • Perplexity0 of 10
  • Google AI Mode0 of 10

Leader: Run For Your Life, 27 of 30

Asked on 30 October 2026

REI

  • 4.6 · 577 Google reviews
  • 9755 Northlake Centre Pkwy, Charlotte, NC 28216 · 2 locations
  • Running
  • rei.com

More Google reviews than 88% of the running stores in Charlotte. Yet AI names 8 other running stores here, Run For Your Life first, with 237 reviews.

What AI answers instead

A shopper asks Google AI Mode: “where to buy Hoka shoes in Charlotte”. The answer names:

  1. Run For Your Life
  2. Charlotte Running Co.
  3. Fleet Feet

REI is not in it, or in any of the other 29 answers.

The 10 questions we asked

Each asked in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode. A tick: at least one answer to it names REI or links its site.

  1. best running store in Charlotte
  2. where to buy running shoes in Charlotte
  3. running shoe store in Charlotte with gait analysis
  4. trail running shoe store in Charlotte
  5. where to buy Hoka shoes in Charlotte
  6. local running shop in Charlotte with group runs
  7. best place to buy running gear in Charlotte
  8. running store in Charlotte with online ordering
  9. affordable running shoes in Charlotte, where should I buy them
  10. which local shop in Charlotte has the best running shoe selection

What AI finds on rei.com

A free check of the store's home page, robots.txt and llms.txt, on 3 November 2026. These are the signals AI assistants read first.

rei.com did not open for us on 3 November 2026. If AI assistants cannot open it either, they cannot read it.

Stores like it that AI names

Close in Google rating and reviews.

Nearby, in 28216

Other running stores with the same ZIP code.

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