Merchant Gourmet
merchant-gourmet.com
Merchant Gourmet is a specialty food retailer offering a curated collection of ready-to-eat pulses, grains, rice, beans, chestnuts, and dried ingredients. The brand focuses on making everyday cooking more gourmet with plant-based, convenient meal solutions and recipe inspiration.
Products
46
Collections
14
Pages
11
Blog Posts
452
CommerceRank Score
Overall store health assessment based on 5 key factors
55/100
Top Recommendations
- Improve PageSpeed performance to 70+ for better conversions
- Add a reviews platform to build customer trust
PageSpeed Performance Analysis
Mobile performance from Google PageSpeed • 23 Feb 2026
Overall Ranking
#2 / 16375
Faster than 100% of stores
Food & Drink Ranking
#8 / 1334
Top 1% in category
Category Avg Performance
56
-4 below avg
Category Avg LCP
1.7s
Slower than avg
Performance
Accessibility
SEO
Core Web Vitals
1.8s
Largest Contentful Paint
0.020
Cumulative Layout Shift
138ms
Interaction to Next Paint
Additional Metrics
Store Audit
Actionable insights compared to 1794 Food & Drink stores
#4 in Food & Drink
Top 0% of stores
80% below average
46 products vs 235 avg
Faster than 99% of Food & Drink stores
PageSpeed score: 52/100
Category Benchmarks
Compared to 1794 stores in Food & Drink
80% below average
avg
59% below average
avg
39% below average
avg
883% above average
avg
Category Intelligence
How Merchant Gourmet compares to other food & drink stores
16%
of Food & Drink stores use Zip (Quadpay)
Insights
- 52% of Food & Drink stores offer PayPal
Theme & Design
Theme Name
BespokeType
Custom / Bespoke
Tech Stack
Platform
shopify
Payment / Finance
Business Profile
Store maturity and operational indicators
Stable
NaN+ year
Since Invalid Date
Top 10% largest catalog
Top 0% by catalog size
high
Strong content (452 blogs, 11 pages)
Tech Stack Maturity
Developing stack
Business Sophistication
Developing
Store Timeline & History
Feb 2026
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About Merchant Gourmet
Merchant Gourmet is a food & drink ecommerce store built on shopify and operating in GB. The store currently offers 46 products organized across 14 collections, making it comparable in size for the food & drink category.
Theme and Design
Merchant Gourmet uses the Bespoke theme, a custom-built solution tailored specifically for this store. This theme choice provides the foundation for their online presence.
Performance Analysis
Based on Google PageSpeed Insights, Merchant Gourmet achieves a performance score of 52/100 on mobile devices. This moderate score suggests there may be opportunities to improve load times and user experience through optimization. The store also scores 96/100 for accessibility and 92/100 for SEO optimization.
Tech Stack
Beyond the core Shopify platform, Merchant Gourmet has not implemented a third-party review platform and offers Zip (Quadpay) for payment flexibility. Compared to other food & drink stores, 52% of food & drink stores offer paypal
Competitive Positioning
Within the Food & Drink category, Merchant Gourmet ranks #4 out of 1794 stores we track. This places them in the top 0% of food & drink stores by product catalog size.
Last scanned
Feb 23, 2026
