AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

Ritual AI shopping shelf share

💊 Supplements · 🇺🇸 US · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#4

Supplements · US

#5 #4

Shelf-share

3.0%

of US answers

2.5% 3.0%

Sentiment

93%

positive

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

Who's on the supplements shelf

1 Optimum Nutrition
8.3%
2 Thorne
6.4%
3 Nutricost
4.8%
4 Ritual
3.0%
5 Nature Made
2.8%
6 Transparent Labs
2.7%

The shoppers Ritual wins

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

Where Ritual wins the journey

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

Awareness

#5

3.3%

Research

—

not surfaced

Comparison

#3

5.8%

Validation

#11

1.3%

Purchase

#12

2.0%

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
1.9%
Google AI Mode
3.0%

What AI says about Ritual

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

93% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed mid

69% mid, 31% premium

“Ritual** : Slashing prices up to 40% off sitewide on staples like Synbiotic+ and their daily protein shakes.”

Google AI Mode

“Recent dietitian reviews consistently highlight Thorne, Nature Made, Ritual, and MegaFood, though different reviewers favor different formulations.”

ChatGPT

“Many evidence-based formulations for mature women (such as Ritual Essential for Women 50+ ) prioritize bioavailable methylcobalamin (B₁₂).”

Google AI Mode

“Ritual Essential for Women Prenatal Multivitamin The Vibe:** Clean, transparent, delayed-release capsule.”

Google AI Mode

Products AI names

The specific Ritual items the engines put in front of US shoppers.

  • Essential Prenatal 0.6%
  • Essential for Men 18+ 0.4%
  • Multivitamin for Women 0.3%
  • Essential for Women 50+ 0.2%
  • Women's formulas 0.2%
  • Essential Prenatal Multivitamin 0.1%
  • Essential for Women Prenatal Multivitamin 0.1%
  • Prenatal 0.1%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as Ritual.

How to read this

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

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