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    Survey Reveals the Good, the Bad, the Crashey

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    Evan Schuman
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    June 1, 2007
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      A survey of 20,000 consumers offers good news for Amazon, QVC and Netflix and not so good news for Macys, BestBuy, PCMall and Saks Fifth Avenue.

      The survey, done for years by consulting firm ForeSee Results, takes the top 100 revenue-grossing Web sites and applied the methodology of the University of Michigan’s ACSI (American Customer Satisfaction Index). ACSI scores have a 100-point scale, with the scores closest to 100 being the best.

      The latest results show an unusually wide gap between the best- and worst-performing sites, in terms of customer service. The top five sites were Netflix (85 score, unchanged from a year ago); QVC (85 score, an improvement from last years 82); Amazon (83, unchanged); Barnes & Noble (82, an increase from last years 78); and DrsFosterSmith (81 – that site hadnt been looked at the prior year).

      The weakest five sites were Neiman Marcus (a 69, a drop from the 76 it earned last year. Thats the largest change—up or down—of any site in the survey); Macys (69, unchanged from last year); Etronics (68, was not examined last year); PCConnection (67, was not examined last year); and PCMall (67, was not examined last year).

      ForeSee CEO Larry Freed said he was taken aback by some of the weaker numbers.

      “The two lowest scorers trail the two highest scorers by more than 20 percent, a remarkable gap given the relatively mature world of online retail,” he said. “It is surprising that any of the top 100 retailers could get away with scores in the 60s and maintain any kind of market dominance for very long.”

      Some other notable changes includes L.L. Bean (still very high at 79, but a drop from the 80 last year), Newegg (78, but less than last years 82), Drugstore (a respectable 76, but below last years 78), Shopping.HP (76, an increase from last years 74), Target (76, higher than last years 73), Williams-Sonoma (75, a drop from last years 79), Staples (75, a decrease from last years 77), OfficeDepot (74, a drop from last years 75), CircuitCity (74, an increase from last years 73), Chadwicks (73, a steep drop from last years 78), Nordstroms (73, a drop from last years 77), BestBuy (71, a drop from last years 73) and 1-800-Flowers (71, a plunge from last years 76).

      Although price comparisons are a big part of todays e-commerce environment, Free said price actually has had—and likely will have—surprisingly little impact on customer satisfaction scores.

      “Not surprisingly, satisfaction with price—at 73—was the lowest of any of the drivers of satisfaction that we measured. But improving price would not have a significant impact on satisfaction for 95 percent of the sites we measured,” Free said. “Instead, for the top 100 retailers as a group, improvements to brand and the site experience would be far more influential on increasing satisfaction and likelihood to purchase. Although price is important to consumers, our research consistently shows that improving satisfaction with price is not the most strategic method of improving overall satisfaction, loyalty and financial performance.”

      Retail Center Editor Evan Schuman can be reached at Evan_Schuman@ziffdavis.com.

      Check out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, views and analysis on technologys impact on retail.

      Evan Schuman
      Evan Schuman is the editor of CIOInsight.com's Retail industry center. He has covered retail technology issues since 1988 for Ziff-Davis, CMP Media, IDG, Penton, Lebhar-Friedman, VNU, BusinessWeek, Business 2.0 and United Press International, among others. He can be reached by e-mail at Evan.Schuman@ziffdavisenterprise.com.
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