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loblaws.ca: can AI agents use it?

Early reading (1 of 7 daily checks so far): agents are turned away (HTTP 403) on the latest check, 2026-10-11. A rating appears after 7 daily checks.

Its robots rules allow every major AI agent, yet a plain AI agent is turned away at the door.

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Each AI agent: what the rules say, and what happened at the door

AI agent	Robots rules	At the door (its own identity)
GPTBot	Allowed	Not tested yet
ChatGPT-User	Allowed	Not tested yet
OAI-SearchBot	Allowed	Not tested yet
ClaudeBot	Allowed	Not tested yet
Claude-User	Allowed	Not tested yet
Google-Extended	Allowed	Not tested yet
PerplexityBot	Allowed	Not tested yet
Applebot-Extended	Allowed	Not tested yet

Guidance and product data for agents

llms.txt: not published.

Product-page checks are not published for this site yet.

Prices: what agents read, what people see

On 2026-10-12 we opened product, event or stay pages from the site's own sitemap twice: once as a plain AI agent reading the machine-readable price, once in a real browser reading the prices a person is shown.

Page	Result	Price agents read	Prices a person sees	Why
	agents turned away	none	none	a plain AI agent met 'blocked' at the home page, so it cannot read any price

Same currency only, within 0.5%; a price inside the agent's stated range counts as the same. Checkout totals are not measured (that needs a purchase).

History

Day	Plain AI agent	llms.txt
2026-10-11	Agents are turned away	No

How we check: public pages only, as a plain AI agent from a cloud server; we obey the site's robots.txt for our own crawler and identify ourselves. One check is not a verdict: ratings build over repeated daily checks. Website owners can ask for a re-check at [email protected].