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Shoppers Drug Mart

What is measured

Salience

90.7

Based on 4 of 4 measures

People search Shoppers Drug Mart by name, and the search ends in a visit. Branded Search Demand and Traffic / Demand Follow-Through both sit at the ceiling of the Index, Relative Search Salience of 100 leads the three-brand comparison group, and Salience lands at 90.7 - demand that converts into arrival, not attention that evaporates on the way to the store. Search Momentum at 53.5 sits around the middle, which says this is a name Canadians already carry rather than one they are newly finding.

Trust

62.1

Based on 4 of 4 measures

Customers score Shoppers Drug Mart better than they talk about it. Average Rating reads 71.6, below the middle of the Index, against Review Sentiment at 51.1 in the bottom third - the rating is polite, the language behind it is not, and with Inverted Complaint Intensity at 59.6, above the middle, there is no loud grievance to blame the gap on. That is trust in the transaction, not in the brand behind it.

Meaning

28.2

Based on 4 of 4 measures

Shoppers Drug Mart is somewhere Canadians go, not something they can describe. Association Clarity sits at 18.2, in the bottom third of the Index, and Differentiation Language sits at 7, near the bottom of the range - customers can't say what the brand stands for, and the words they reach for separate it from nothing. Affinity at 69.6 sits in the middle of a measure where every brand clusters, so it buys no defence: this is a habit with a loyalty card attached, not a meaning anyone would repeat out loud.

Advocacy

14.2

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

Advocacy sits at 14.2, and that number says something uncomfortable about a store most Canadians walk into every week: they go, and they don't tell anyone to. Positive word of mouth registers at 15.7 while recommendation language comes in lower still at 12.3 - the little talk that happens is about a points balance or a location that's close, not about a brand worth putting a name behind. Foot traffic this heavy with conversation this thin is habit, not advocacy - the visit has been earned, the endorsement hasn't.

Emotional Connection

11.7

Based on 3 of 4 measures · missing: Community Engagement

Shoppers Drug Mart has customers who visit constantly and feel almost nothing about it - Emotional Connection sits at 11.7, with identity and belonging language at 7.5. Ask a shopper why they went and the answer is proximity and points, not attachment; attachment language registers at 9.5, and sentiment at 16.6 says the warmth isn't hiding somewhere in the data. That's a habit the brand owns, not a relationship it earned - and habits transfer to whichever store opens closer.

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
52
Based on 5 of 6 factors
Canada
#9 of 23
#2 of 3
104
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

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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

Salience91Trust62Meaning28Advocacy14EmotionalConnection12Pricing PowerNOT YET

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