How Customers Fared During the Holiday Season -- and What They Want You to Know
The spirit of giving seems to grow each holiday season. And with that, so does the holiday shopping madness. As outreach increases, retailers often need to double or even triple the support in their contact centers during this period to meet demand.
The fine print here, however, is that there are considerable costs associated with hiring and training temporary brand ambassadors, and significant planning time required that begins well before the season.How are these efforts rewarded? Are customers happier with the service? Is the typical service experience similar, or actually worse than usual? Does wait time decrease? For retail customers, it’s important to analyze whether the caliber of care they are accustomed to receiving from their favorite retailer stays consistent during the busy holiday season.
To find the answers to these questions, Interactions fielded a survey to see how consumers fared during the 2017 holiday season when it came to retail customer care. The survey looked specifically at customer interactions with customer care representatives outside of the brick-and-mortar retail space, including over the phone, website, and chat.
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Download this research to learn how seasonality affects customer care, customer interaction experiences during the holiday season, the key to happy customers, and what all of this means for retailers.
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