AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

IAMS AI shopping shelf share

🐾 Pet Supplies · 🇬🇧 UK · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#33

Pet Supplies · UK

#29 #33

Shelf-share

0.6%

of UK answers

0.4% 0.6%

Sentiment

73%

positive

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

Who's on the pet supplies shelf

1 Butternut Box
8.4%
2 KONG
6.0%
3 Royal Canin
5.3%
4 Purina
4.8%
5 Harringtons
4.2%
6 Hill's
4.0%
⋯
33 IAMS
0.6%

The shoppers IAMS wins

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

Where IAMS wins the journey

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

Awareness

#27

0.8%

Research

#38

0.4%

Comparison

—

not surfaced

Validation

#41

0.3%

Purchase

#13

2.0%

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
1.2%
Google AI Mode
0.2%

What AI says about IAMS

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

73% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed budget

67% budget, 17% mid, 17% premium

“If you mean UK Boxing Day pet-food deals, I found that VioVet currently has a dedicated Boxing Day sale section, including puppy foods such as Lily’s Kitchen, IAMS, Forthglade and Buddy Pet Food.”

ChatGPT

“Tesco currently has some particularly cheap senior options: Tesco Chicken Senior 3kg £3.25, while IAMS Senior 2kg is £7 with Clubcard, and selected pet food has 4-for-3 offers.”

ChatGPT

“For example, VioVet currently has a dedicated Boxing Day dog-food sale page with puppy options such as IAMS, Lily’s Kitchen, Forthglade and Barking Heads.”

ChatGPT

“🍗 Another good middle-ground: IAMS Small/Medium Puppy — currently showing around £4 for the listed pack, although pack size matters when comparing the true cost per kg.”

ChatGPT

Products AI names

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

  • Large Breed Puppy 0.1%
  • Puppy 0.1%
  • Puppy & Junior Small/Medium Breed 0.1%
  • Puppy Small/Medium Breed 0.1%
  • Senior Dog Food Small/Medium Breed With Fresh Chicken 0.1%
  • Small & Medium Senior 0.1%
  • Vitality Small Medium Puppy Chicken 0.1%
  • Senior Chicken 0.0%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as IAMS.

How to read this

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

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