Academy Sports + Outdoors
When Kansas City shoppers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode about running shoes, none of the 30 answers names Academy Sports + Outdoors. #25 of 30 local running stores; AI names The Running Well Store in 27.
- ChatGPT0 of 10
- Perplexity0 of 10
- Google AI Mode0 of 10
Leader: The Running Well Store, 27 of 30
Asked on 30 October 2026Academy Sports + Outdoors
- 4.0 · 102 Google reviews
- 9130 NW Skyview Ave, Kansas City, MO 64154
- Running
- academy.com
More Google reviews than 17% of the running stores in Kansas City. Yet AI names 10 other running stores here, The Running Well Store first, with 277 reviews.
What AI answers instead
A shopper asks ChatGPT: “best running store in Kansas City”. The answer names:
- The Running Well Store
- Fleet Feet Ward Parkway
- Elite Feet
- The Foot Spot
Academy Sports + Outdoors 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 Academy Sports + Outdoors or links its site.
- best running store in Kansas City
- where to buy running shoes in Kansas City
- running shoe store in Kansas City with gait analysis
- trail running shoe store in Kansas City
- where to buy Hoka shoes in Kansas City
- local running shop in Kansas City with group runs
- best place to buy running gear in Kansas City
- running store in Kansas City with online ordering
- affordable running shoes in Kansas City, where should I buy them
- which local shop in Kansas City has the best running shoe selection
What AI finds on academy.com
Its home page, robots.txt and llms.txt, checked on 3 November 2026: what AI assistants read first.
- Store details in structured dataName, address and hours in a form AI reads directly.
- Products in structured dataProducts with prices AI can quote.
- Ratings in structured dataNo rating or review data: AI leans on other sites to judge the store.
- Open to AI assistantsrobots.txt lets the AI crawlers in.
- llms.txtNo llms.txt: no short summary written for AI assistants.
- Secure site (HTTPS)Opens over HTTPS.
Stores like it that AI names
Close in Google rating and reviews.
- Hibbett1 of 30 · ★ 3.9 · 55 reviews
- Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse1 of 30 · ★ 4.0 · 294 reviews
- Foot Locker5 of 30 · ★ 3.9 · 277 reviews
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