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Mark's

What is measured

Trust

64.2

Based on 4 of 4 measures

The rating is warmer than the writing. Average Rating sits at 72.8 and Review Sentiment at 55.2 - both below the middle of the Index - so customers hand over the stars and then describe the experience in cooler language than those stars imply, while Inverted Complaint Intensity at 56.2 puts the loudness of complaint squarely mid-pack. Trust at 64.2 is dependability, not devotion: enough to keep the transaction, not enough to be worth talking about.

Salience

52.6

Based on 4 of 4 measures

Mark's converts demand better than it creates it. Traffic / Demand Follow-Through sits at 100, at the ceiling of the Index - every bit of intent this brand generates turns into a visit - while Relative Search Salience at 8.1 sits near the bottom of the range within its comparison group and Branded Search Demand at 49.9 sits in the bottom third. Search Momentum at 86.4 lands in the top third, which is the one number here worth building on: the demand is growing, and nothing is being lost on the way in.

Meaning

30.5

Based on 4 of 4 measures

Mark's is liked and unexplained. Affinity sits at 60.4 on a measure where the whole Index clusters, so it separates Mark's from nobody, while Association Clarity at 17.9 and Differentiation Language at 8 both sit well down the range: customers who feel fine about the brand and can't say what it stands for or what sets it apart. Category Audience Fit at 33.8 sits in the bottom third of the range, so its shoppers look less like the audiences of the brands it is compared with than most. Meaning lands at 30.5: an idea the brand has never given them.

Advocacy

22.4

Based on 2 of 4 measures · missing: Conversation Volume, Earned Mention Velocity

Mark's customers shop it; they don't talk about it. Advocacy sits at 22.4, with recommendation language at 19.7 - even the people who mention Mark's favourably aren't telling anyone else to go, and positive word of mouth at 24.8 means the conversation is thin before it ever gets that far. A brand nobody recommends has to buy every customer it gets, twice.

Emotional Connection

13.9

Based on 3 of 4 measures · missing: Community Engagement

Mark's Emotional Connection sits at 13.9 - customers buy the boots and feel nothing about the store that sold them. Identity language registers at 9.5 and attachment language at 10.3: nobody describes themselves as a Mark's person, and nobody would miss it. Emotional sentiment at 20 says the relationship is functional, not felt - a place people shop, not a brand they belong to.

Not yet scored

Pricing Power2 of 5

A retailer's price is a basket of many products rather than one, and how that basket should be defined has not been settled - so no price comparison is published for this category yet.

The full Devotion Score needs all six factors. A factor is scored once at least half of its measures have data behind them. The rest appear as their sources connect.

Devotion Score
40
Based on 5 of 6 factors
Canada
#22 of 23
#5 of 5
82
Directional
Aug 10, 2026

5 of 6 factors measured so far, from customer reviews, search interest and audience research. Each factor on this page shows the measures behind it and any that are missing.

Category

Retail

Sports apparel

Compared with the other brands here that are measured the same way. See the rankings for where this brand sits.

Measured from customer reviews of its locations. Brands measured in different places are not compared with each other.

This brand was measured in Canada. Brands are compared only with others measured in the same market.

Six Factor Scores

Trust64Salience53Meaning31Advocacy22EmotionalConnection14Pricing PowerNOT YET

A dashed spoke is a factor not yet measured - it is left off the shape rather than drawn as a low score.