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AI Shopping Visibility Report · copy paper

June 19, 2026
ChatGPT shopping
Last 90 days
The verdict

ChatGPT rarely shows a product shelf for copy paper — only 8 rendered across the sample (82% of queries returned no shelf at all). The real question is whose sources it trusts: Quill owns 3% of the 557 sources it cites in this category — the rest is led by bestbuy.com, officedepot.com, walmart.com.

The prize on the table
~62,600searches / month for copy paper

ChatGPT is already recommending the products you sell — it put Hammermill on the shelf, then sends the buyer to OfficeSupply, Sam's Club, Walmart — not Quill. You're the seller it names on roughly 0% of them.

AI Shelf Visibility
rarely renders
Category Rank
Source Authority
3%
sources owned
Category Citations
557
sources ChatGPT cites

What ChatGPT puts on the shelf

The lineup across the 8 shelves that rendered

The Hammermill you carry starts at $37.28 — pricier than 6 of the 8 other products on the shelf. Pen+Gear $5.77, Elementree $6.27, Office Depot $6.81 all come in lower.

ProductPriceSeller
Office Depot · Office Depot Brand Copy Paper$7–49OfficeSupply + others
Member's Mark · Member's Mark Copy Paper$39–43Sam's Club + others
Pen+Gear · Pen+Gear Copy Paper$6–50Walmart + others
Hammermill · Hammermill Copy Plus Paper 92$37–96Hammermill + others
Xerox · Xerox Vitality Multipurpose Paper 92$13–19OfficeMax + others
Elementree · Elementree Sustainable Printer Paper$6.27Walmart + others
Insignia · Insignia Multipurpose Paper$9.29Best Buy + others
Alliance · Alliance Copy Paper 8-1/2" x 11" 95 Bright 2$80.99Walmart - HyperstarUSA + others
Staples · Staples 8.5-Inch X 11-Inch Laser Paper 32 Lb$16–31Staples

Captured from the product cards ChatGPT rendered. Price/rating/seller are what it showed shoppers.

Who shapes the recommendation

557 category citations · 3% owned

Of every source ChatGPT pulls from when recommending in your category, you own 3%. The rest is editorial, retailer, and community content shaping what shoppers hear.

bestbuy.com · retailerofficedepot.com · earnedwalmart.com · retailerofficesupply.com · earnedbhphotovideo.com · earned

ChatGPT revenue attribution

Directional today · measured as your data connects

ChatGPT is already routing copy papershoppers to a seller on every shelf it renders — today that's bestbuy.com, officedepot.com, walmart.com, not you. That's demand leaving on the table. Here's how we put a number on it as we work together:

01
Directional
Size the demand flowing through ChatGPT for your category from shelf + citation activity — a modeled estimate, starting now.
02
Tracked
Connect your store: we trace ChatGPT-referred sessions to your product pages — real clicks, not a model.
03
Measured
With your conversion data in, we report revenue traced ChatGPT → checkout, by product — and the gap closing.

The attribution model sharpens from directional to measured as your product + conversion data comes in.

How you get the sale
  1. 01Get into the shopping feeds — Google Merchant Center, Bing, and ChatGPT's emerging commerce feeds. You're never the seller it names (it routes those buyers to Hammermill and others); if you're not in the feed, you can't be an offer at all. This is the single biggest unlock.
  2. 02Add Product / Offer / Review schema to every product page so ChatGPT can read your price, stock, and ratings cleanly — it surfaces listings it can parse.
  3. 03Build review volume on your listings — the top product on this shelf carries 14,778 reviews. The shelf is won on ratings; thin-review listings get buried.
  4. 04Win on B2B, not price. Own the account/bulk-intent queries ("bulk paper for a 50-person office," "office supplies on net terms") and surface your business pricing, account terms, and shipping — that's where a reseller beats the marketplaces, not on a single ream.
  5. 05Publish category buying guides so ChatGPT cites you as a source — you own 3% of the sources it pulls from today.