AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

Mainstays AI shopping shelf share

🍳 Kitchen · 🇨🇦 CA · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#62

Kitchen · CA

#28 outside top 40

Shelf-share

0.1%

of CA answers

0.8% 0.1%

Sentiment

50%

positive

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

Who's on the kitchen shelf

1 Ninja
16.3%
2 Breville
9.1%
3 Cosori
7.6%
4 De'Longhi
4.9%
5 Chefman
3.4%
6 Philips
3.3%
⋯
62 Mainstays
0.1%

The shoppers Mainstays wins

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

Where Mainstays wins the journey

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

Awareness

#41

0.3%

Research

—

not surfaced

Comparison

#24

0.8%

Validation

#41

0.2%

Purchase

#47

0.2%

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
0.1%
Google AI Mode
0.5%

What AI says about Mainstays

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

50% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed budget

100% budget

“Cons:** Pushes close to your $100 ceiling; slightly lower wattage than the Mainstays option.”

Google AI Mode

“Best ultra-budget option:** Mainstays 2.2-Qt.”

ChatGPT

Products AI names

The specific Mainstays items the engines put in front of CA shoppers.

  • Compact Air Fryer 0.2%
  • 2.2 Qt Compact Air Fryer 0.1%
  • 2.2-Qt 0.0%
  • Compact Air Fryer (2.2 Qt) 0.0%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as Mainstays.

How to read this

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

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