Use case: VoC program for retail

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs have become an established path for retailers to deliver enhanced customer experiences.

Consumer behavior, nevertheless, is always changing. Retailers are rarely able to anticipate these behavioral changes or adapt quickly enough to preserve or grow their market share.

In 2018, a regional supermarket brand with over 800 hundred stores wanted to understand customer experience at every touchpoint in order to identify potential areas of customer frustration.

The company undertook a strategic Voice of the Customer (VoC) program with the aim of systematically and consistently capturing insights from the customer experience.

The program is still running. It comprises of around 23,000 surveys per month, completed by customers at various branches of the supermarket chain.

In retail, listening to the Voice of the Customer to identify the strengths and weaknesses of business is fundamental. Competition is fierce. Given that the scale of information to be analyzed is immense, the company decided to work with MeaningCloud to process the literal answers to the open-ended questions of the surveys, so they need not worry about the amount or the time needed to process them.

The dashboard of VoC

The key elements that define the program of their customized VoC tool are:

  1. Surveys are analyzed monthly so that they can distinctly see the evolution of the business-relevant issues.
  2. Results are broken down by supermarket
  3. Results are broken down according to the different sections of the supermarket:
Select month-supermarket - section-VOC

Geta a report. 1) Select month. 2) Select a supermarket. 3) Select the department

  • Food
  • Pharmacy, Health & Beauty
  • Electronics & Office
  • Home, furniture

In addition to that, for every section, there are insights into the following subjects:

  1. Price
  2. Customer Service
  3. Suggestions
  4. Competitors

The screen capture below shows the first seven most frequent categories in two months: Feb19 (upper darker bar) and Jan19 (lower lighter bar) for all the sections.

first 7 most frequent categories in two months

Competitive intelligence

The graph below shows the mentions of each competitor for every section. Competitor mentions for each supermarket domain (such as Electronics) ensue as the most valuable source of competitive intelligence for the company.

mentions of each competitor for every section

What about being plastic bag-free?

An example of the insights they gather from their monthly surveys are suggestions provided by customers. The VoC dashboard allows the company to witness the ever-increasing awareness regarding the environmental impact and hazard of the single-use plastic bag.
See, for example, the evolution of suggestions concerning the eradication of plastic bags from Jan-18 to Jan-19. The graph shows the results for the Food division.

the eradication of plastic bags from Jan-18 to Jan-19. The graph shows the results for the Food division

Voice of the Customer in Retail Demo

At MeaningCloud, we know how crucial unstructured data is for the Voice of the Customer analysis , so we’ve defined a model focused on the retail domain that will allow you to characterize in detail any feedback from your customers, enabling you to carry out an in-depth analysis to identify the customer’s wants and needs in an organized way.

Try our demo for Retail!


About Eduardo Valencia

Data-driven by instinct and by learning. I began my career as a linguist. Some things stay with you to the grave. Since 1995, I have been leading teams and companies that have successfully developed and distributed hundreds of successful data, analytics and ICT projects.

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