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Home Deliveries Disappoint
Poor Home Deliveries Continue to Disappoint Consumers.
Which? The consumer research organisation recently released their research into 2020’s Christmas home delivery disasters.
The research shows that a whopping 37% of online consumers had issues with their home delivery, almost 4 in 10. They even listed the worst offending couriers. Retailers who depend on third party couriers should take note of their customers’ full delivery experience as a bad experience can lead to them loosing sales and receiving poor reviews. (Read our blog – Poor Delivery Planning has Consequences).
Online retailers need to take control of their customers end-to-end experience, right through to delivery and collections procedure for returns. Descartes conducted research with consumers in the summer of 2021, find out more in our whitepaper - Home Deliveries and making the most of the current online sales boom.
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