Back To The Basket

When Portland shoppers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode about running shoes, none of the 30 answers names Back To The Basket. #28 of 58 local running stores; AI names Foot Traffic in 26.

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

Leader: Foot Traffic, 26 of 30

Asked on 29 October 2026

Back To The Basket

  • 4.8 · 127 Google reviews
  • 3405 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214
  • Running
  • backtothebasket.com

More Google reviews than 53% of the running stores in Portland. Yet AI names 9 other running stores here, Foot Traffic first, with 243 reviews.

What AI answers instead

A shopper asks ChatGPT: “best running store in Portland”. The answer names:

  1. Foot Traffic
  2. Portland Running Company
  3. Fleet Feet

Back To The Basket 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 Back To The Basket or links its site.

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

What AI finds on backtothebasket.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 dataNo Product data on the home page: AI cannot see what the store sells or for how much.
  • 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.txtA plain summary for AI assistants.
  • Secure site (HTTPS)Opens over HTTPS.

Stores like it that AI names

Close in Google rating and reviews.

Nearby, in 97214

Other running stores with the same ZIP code.

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