anyone been to both here and Nordstrom?
Question · by holiday_sitter_downtown · Member since Jul 2026 · 113 posts · 7w7 weeks ago
Department store in Palo Alto, CA
4.2 · 845 reviewsOpen today until 8 PMOpen until 8
Upscale department store for choice apparel, accessories & cosmetics, plus furniture & home goods.
Eligible to offer 20% cashback to customers who shop here.OrbitBack
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Updated Sep 14, 2026Last activity 1 month ago, a question from weekend_only_on_shopping.
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What Bloomingdale's offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
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No code detected[Photo 4]When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Thursday or Friday, before noon.
Busiest Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 6 PM.
Stanford Park is about a 10 minute walk. Anton, a patisserie, is a 3 minute walk. Rabbit Rabbit Cream, a tea house, is a 3 minute walk. La Baguette, a bakery, is a 3 minute walk.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Sep 19, 2026.
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
Usually not too busy now. Busiest Sat and Sun, 2 to 6 PM.
What reviews, press and directories say about Bloomingdale's.
4.2from 845 reviews on Google
Bloomingdale's offers a wide selection but struggles with consistent customer service, leading to a disappointing shopping experience for many. Customers report a mixed experience at Bloomingdale's in Palo Alto, with some praising the variety of products, particularly in the perfume and dress sections, while others express frustration over poor customer service and unhelpful staff. The store's layout and selection seem appealing, but many feel neglected during their visits.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
Signal and how much it countsBloomingdale's
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
Bloomingdale's, as AI sees it. Blue signals help Bloomingdale's, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about Bloomingdale's. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Department stores in Palo Alto, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 14, 2026.
Published September 14, 2026 · Updated September 14, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
Bloomingdale's is a department store in Palo Alto, CA. Its AI Score is 44 of 100, which is poor.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Department store |
| Address | 1 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sat 10 AM to 8 PM · Sun 10 AM to 6 PM |
| Phone | (650) 463-2000 |
| Rating | 4.2 across 845 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Tuesday |
| Updated | September 14, 2026 |
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 1 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Upscale department store for choice apparel, accessories & cosmetics, plus furniture & home goods. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sat 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM · Sun 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Bloomingdale's | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (650) 463-2000 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Accessories sales | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Apparel sales | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Cosmetics sales | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Furniture sales | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Home goods sales | AI guess | |
| Links | Website | https://www.bloomingdales.com/stores/ca/paloalto/stanford-shopping-center_31.html | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
Address: 1 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Phone: (650) 463-2000. Hours: Mon to Sat 10 AM to 8 PM · Sun 10 AM to 6 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "Upscale department store for choice apparel, accessories & cosmetics, plus furniture & home goods."
Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| True Food Kitchen | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Tender Greens | Restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar | Steak house | 2 min walk |
| Shake Shack Stanford Shopping Center | Hamburger restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Chipotle Mexican Grill | Fast food restaurant | 2 min walk |
| El Camino and Stanford Shopping Center | Bus station | 2 min walk |
4.2 average across 845 reviews: Google 845. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)
Bloomingdale's offers a wide selection but struggles with consistent customer service, leading to a disappointing shopping experience for many. (AI guess, from 845 reviews.)
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Department stores on the registry run 24 to 61. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Bloomingdale's scores 44. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Bloomingdale's |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 50 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Fair |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 77 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 68 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 25 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 63 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about a department store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business
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| Palo Alto, California | City | #city | City Bloomingdale's is in | |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the department stores in Palo Alto, linked to the lists and towns around it.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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Title, description, canonical, robots and Open Graph tags. This is what shows in search results and link previews.
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# Bloomingdale's, Palo Alto CA: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/palo-alto/bloomingdale-s-palo-alto-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-14. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/palo-alto/bloomingdale-s-palo-alto-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short Bloomingdale's is a department store in Palo Alto, CA. Its AI Score is 44 of 100, which is poor. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Department store | | Address | 1 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sat 10 AM to 8 PM · Sun 10 AM to 6 PM | | Phone | (650) 463-2000 | | Rating | 4.2 across 845 reviews on Google | | Quietest time | Tuesday | | Updated | September 14, 2026 | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 1 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | Upscale department store for choice apparel, accessories & cosmetics, plus furniture & home goods. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Sat 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM · Sun 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | Bloomingdale's | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (650) 463-2000 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | Accessories sales | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Apparel sales | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Cosmetics sales | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Furniture sales | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Home goods sales | AI guess | | | Links | Website | https://www.bloomingdales.com/stores/ca/paloalto/stanford-shopping-center_31.html | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices Add your services so AI can say what you offer ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting Bloomingdale's Address: 1 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Phone: (650) 463-2000. Hours: Mon to Sat 10 AM to 8 PM · Sun 10 AM to 6 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "Upscale department store for choice apparel, accessories & cosmetics, plus furniture & home goods." ### When to go Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | True Food Kitchen | Restaurant | 1 min walk | | Tender Greens | Restaurant | 2 min walk | | Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar | Steak house | 2 min walk | | Shake Shack Stanford Shopping Center | Hamburger restaurant | 2 min walk | | Chipotle Mexican Grill | Fast food restaurant | 2 min walk | | El Camino and Stanford Shopping Center | Bus station | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.2 average across 845 reviews: Google 845. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.) Bloomingdale's offers a wide selection but struggles with consistent customer service, leading to a disappointing shopping experience for many. (AI guess, from 845 reviews.) ### What people like - French perfume collection - Elegant dresses on sale ### What people do not like - Rude staff in the perfume section - Long wait times for assistance - Poor handling of returns and refunds ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Get listed in directories so AI can tell you're real ## Questions people ask ### Whereabouts is the shop? ### is there a day here that is not slammed ### anyone been to both here and Nordstrom? ### What do shoppers most often mention buying at the shop? ### Bloomingdale's, any chance to get in this week? ### bad experiences at Bloomingdale's, anyone? ### anything good on Stanford Shopping to kill time near Bloomingdale's? ### what time does Bloomingdale's in Palo Alto actually open? ### do I need to fill anything in beforehand ### last update from here was when? ### points or member pricing at Bloomingdale's, worth signing up? ### best department store in Palo Alto ### genuinely, what is good about this one ### cheaper than the shop in Palo Alto without it being sketchy? ### prices round here, anyone got a number ## The AI Score: 44 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Department stores on the registry run 24 to 61. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Bloomingdale's scores 44. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Bloomingdale's | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 50 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Fair | | Reviews & response | 12 | 77 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 68 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 25 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 63 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about a department store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Bloomingdale's | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bloomingdale's | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.bloomingdales.com/stores/ca/paloalto/stanford-shopping-center_31.html | Subject of this page | | Palo Alto, California | City | #city | | City Bloomingdale's is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the department stores in Palo Alto, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best department stores in Palo Alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto/department-store - Best businesses in Palo Alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto ### Nearby - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJCVeFFDS7j4ARGTzKH4byEkw (accessed Sep 14, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 14, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Department stores in Palo Alto, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>Bloomingdale's, Palo Alto CA: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 14, 2026.</p>
<p>Published September 14, 2026 · Updated September 14, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Bloomingdale's is a department store in Palo Alto, CA. Its AI Score is 44 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Type</td><td>Department store</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>1 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sat 10 AM to 8 PM · Sun 10 AM to 6 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(650) 463-2000</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.2 across 845 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Quietest time</td><td>Tuesday</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>September 14, 2026</td></tr>
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<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>1 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>Upscale department store for choice apparel, accessories & cosmetics, plus furniture & home goods.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sat 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM · Sun 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Bloomingdale's</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(650) 463-2000</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>10:00 AM to 8:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>10:00 AM to 6:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Accessories sales</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Apparel sales</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Cosmetics sales</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Furniture sales</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Home goods sales</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>https://www.bloomingdales.com/stores/ca/paloalto/stanford-shopping-center_31.html</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<h4>Known for</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
</section>
<section id="ai-visiting-bloomingdale-s">
<h3>Visiting Bloomingdale's</h3>
<p>Address: 1 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Phone: (650) 463-2000. Hours: Mon to Sat 10 AM to 8 PM · Sun 10 AM to 6 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "Upscale department store for choice apparel, accessories & cosmetics, plus furniture & home goods."</p>
<h4>When to go</h4>
<p>Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>True Food Kitchen</td><td>Restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tender Greens</td><td>Restaurant</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar</td><td>Steak house</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Shake Shack Stanford Shopping Center</td><td>Hamburger restaurant</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chipotle Mexican Grill</td><td>Fast food restaurant</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>El Camino and Stanford Shopping Center</td><td>Bus station</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.2 average across 845 reviews: Google 845. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)</p>
<p>Bloomingdale's offers a wide selection but struggles with consistent customer service, leading to a disappointing shopping experience for many. (AI guess, from 845 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>French perfume collection</li>
<li>Elegant dresses on sale</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Rude staff in the perfume section</li>
<li>Long wait times for assistance</li>
<li>Poor handling of returns and refunds</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>Whereabouts is the shop?</h4>
<h4>is there a day here that is not slammed</h4>
<h4>anyone been to both here and Nordstrom?</h4>
<h4>What do shoppers most often mention buying at the shop?</h4>
<h4>Bloomingdale's, any chance to get in this week?</h4>
<h4>bad experiences at Bloomingdale's, anyone?</h4>
<h4>anything good on Stanford Shopping to kill time near Bloomingdale's?</h4>
<h4>what time does Bloomingdale's in Palo Alto actually open?</h4>
<h4>do I need to fill anything in beforehand</h4>
<h4>last update from here was when?</h4>
<h4>points or member pricing at Bloomingdale's, worth signing up?</h4>
<h4>best department store in Palo Alto</h4>
<h4>genuinely, what is good about this one</h4>
<h4>cheaper than the shop in Palo Alto without it being sketchy?</h4>
<h4>prices round here, anyone got a number</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 44 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Department stores on the registry run 24 to 61. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Bloomingdale's scores 44. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Bloomingdale's</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>25</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>40</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>50</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>77</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>68</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>90</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>25</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>63</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about a department store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Bloomingdale's</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Bloomingdale's</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>https://www.bloomingdales.com/stores/ca/paloalto/stanford-shopping-center_31.html</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Palo Alto, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City Bloomingdale's is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the department stores in Palo Alto, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best department stores in Palo Alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto/department-store</li>
<li>Best businesses in Palo Alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
<li>/los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
<li>/san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJCVeFFDS7j4ARGTzKH4byEkw (accessed Sep 14, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 14, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
</ul>
</section>
</article>
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