AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

de Buyer AI shopping shelf share

🍳 Kitchen · 🇬🇧 UK · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#49

Kitchen · UK

#32 outside top 40

Shelf-share

0.1%

of UK answers

0.2% 0.1%

Sentiment

100%

positive

No week-to-week change larger than the variation between readings.

Who's on the kitchen shelf

1 Ninja
31.3%
2 De'Longhi
7.6%
3 Le Creuset
5.6%
4 Sage
5.0%
5 Philips
4.6%
6 Tower
3.2%
⋯
49 de Buyer
0.1%

The shoppers de Buyer wins

The same answers, sliced by the shopper the question implies — where de Buyer ranks best.

Where de Buyer wins the journey

Its rank at each phase of the shopping journey — from first awareness to the moment of purchase.

Awareness

#22

0.9%

Research

#48

0.0%

Comparison

—

not surfaced

Validation

#29

0.3%

Purchase

#37

0.2%

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
0.5%
Google AI Mode
0.1%

What AI says about de Buyer

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

100% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed mid

38% budget, 63% mid

“For something more serious: [de Buyer Affinity Sauté Pan]() £21.00 I'd spend the bigger money on the casserole and saucepans before spending £100+ on a frying pan.”

ChatGPT

“| | De Buyer Mineral B | Carbon Steel | £45 – £65 | Heavy-gauge French iron/carbon steel that builds a natural, slick seasoning over time; virtually indestructible and completely synthetic-free.”

Google AI Mode

“A Smithey or Lodge cast iron skillet, or a de Buyer carbon steel pan, will outlive all of us.”

Google AI Mode

“(Tollbit) - 🥩 Best “forever pan”: carbon steel. A de Buyer is an excellent choice.”

ChatGPT

Products AI names

The specific de Buyer items the engines put in front of UK shoppers.

  • Mineral B Frying Pan 0.1%
  • Black Iron Crepe Pan 0.1%
  • 12-inch Mineral B Carbon Steel Skillet 0.0%
  • Affinity Sauté Pan 0.0%
  • Affinity Stainless Steel Frying Pan 0.0%
  • Carbone Plus 0.0%
  • Mineral B Pan 0.0%
  • carbon steel pan 0.0%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as de Buyer.

How to read this

Bar is how often that brand is recommended in the same answer as de Buyer, relative to the rest.

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Holiday Shopping 2026 · reading updated 11 Oct. An independent measurement by Slingso; not affiliated with de Buyer.