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Kohl's

Department Stores · #34 by 2025 U.S. retail sales ($14.78B)

Measured at www.kohls.com

Partly observable
no comparable score published

We read the storefront, but too little of the instrument applied to publish a score that is comparable to the rest of the list. The pillars we did observe are shown.

only 79% of the instrument was observable; below the 85% floor required for a comparable score

Pillar breakdown

Each pillar shows the points earned against the maximum that was actually observable. Where a signal could not be observed it is removed from both sides rather than scored as a failure.

Product Data Depth

4 / 18

7 pts not observable

Buyer Answerability

0 / 6

14 pts not observable

Commerce Transparency

12 / 20

Machine Readability

12.4 / 20

Agent Interface

7 / 15

What the site-level probe found

robots.txt readableyes
AI crawler stanceblocks — 1 named, 1 blocked
Sitemapyes, including a product sitemap
UCP profilenone at /.well-known/ucp — this is not evidence against adoption
llms.txtnone

What this score is not

It is not an audit and not a judgement of the business — it is a 8-page sample taken on a stated date, scored on a published rubric with no model judgement in it. Nothing here predicts whether any assistant will recommend you; for most answer engines that is decided by a private merchant feed we cannot see. If a number here is wrong, tell us and it goes in the public corrections log.

Go deeper than eight pages

This scorecard is a sample — eight product pages, drawn at random from a published seed. It tells you where Kohl's stands, not which SKUs are costing you. We’ll run a real sample of the whole catalog through the same extractor and send back the fields that are missing, by product.

Everything above stays free either way — the rubric, the sampled pages, the dataset, and every other company’s scorecard.