AI SEO Statistics: Grocery Delivery Service (2026-07 edition)

Reading the 45 answers model by model shows how differently the three assistants treat the same grocery delivery service questions. On the most consequential behavior — whether to send the buyer to a professional at all — the rate ranged from 53.3% (Claude) down to 46.7% (ChatGPT), a 7-point gap on an identical question set.

Across the 15 grocery delivery service answers it produced, ChatGPT recommended hiring a professional in 46.7% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 13.3% of the time. It named a specific provider in 53.3% of answers (about 3 distinct providers per answer) and included price or cost information 20% of the time. ChatGPT asked a clarifying question before answering in 40% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 0%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 0%, averaging 410 words per answer. On the remaining cues it told the buyer to check reviews in 13.3%, pointed to case studies or a portfolio in 0%, and framed the choice around local proximity in 33.3%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 33.3% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 6.7%.

Across the 15 grocery delivery service answers it produced, Claude recommended hiring a professional in 53.3% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 13.3% of the time. It named a specific provider in 66.7% of answers (about 3.5 distinct providers per answer) and included price or cost information 26.7% of the time. Claude asked a clarifying question before answering in 66.7% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 6.7%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 0%, averaging 255 words per answer. On the remaining cues it told the buyer to check reviews in 20%, pointed to case studies or a portfolio in 0%, and framed the choice around local proximity in 40%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 60% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 6.7%.

Across the 15 grocery delivery service answers it produced, Gemini recommended hiring a professional in 53.3% of them and suggested a DIY approach first 6.7% of the time. It named a specific provider in 80% of answers (about 4.5 distinct providers per answer) and included price or cost information 60% of the time. Gemini asked a clarifying question before answering in 0% of cases, warned about red flags or scams in 6.7%, and told the buyer to verify credentials in 0%, averaging 228 words per answer. On the remaining cues it told the buyer to check reviews in 0%, pointed to case studies or a portfolio in 0%, and framed the choice around local proximity in 40%; a selection-criteria checklist appeared in 46.7% of its answers and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 6.7%.

Taken together, Claude is the assistant most likely to route a grocery delivery service buyer to a professional (53.3%) and ChatGPT the least (46.7%). ChatGPT produced the longest answers, at 410 words on average. Specific providers were named most often by Gemini (80%) — even there, roughly one answer in 1 carried a name.

On other behaviors the three models move almost in lockstep — the points of near-consensus for grocery delivery service, where all three landed within a few points of each other:

• Tells the buyer to verify credentials: 0% across all three models.
• Mentions case studies or portfolio: 0% across all three models.
• Recommends multiple quotes: 6.7% across all three models.
• Recommends hiring a professional: 46.7%–53.3% across all three (a 7-point spread).

Measured question by question, the three assistants coded a response the same way most consistently on "tells the buyer to verify credentials" (identical coding in 100% of questions) and least consistently on "asks a clarifying question" (26.7%).

Beyond whether to hire, the rubric codes how carefully each assistant protects the grocery delivery service buyer once a decision is made. Telling the buyer to check reviews or ratings appeared in 11.1% of answers on average. Verifying credentials or certifications appeared in 0%. Warning about red flags or scams appeared in 4.5%.

On structuring the decision, a selection-criteria checklist showed up in 46.7% of answers on average and a recommendation to gather multiple quotes in 6.7%. The single least-reproduced protective signal for grocery delivery service is "tells the buyer to verify credentials" at 0% on average — the clearest opening for content that supplies it, since the models are not yet reliably surfacing that guidance on their own.

The 15 questions behind every percentage on this page were drawn from real grocery delivery service (ecommerce / online retail; buyer hiring decisions for this specific service) buyer journeys. Each was put to all 3 models once, with identical wording, so the rates above describe how the assistants handled this exact grocery delivery service question set — not a general prior or a hand-picked subset. The full list is shown earlier on this page; the coded percentages are what those specific questions produced.