Yesterday I came home to a flat yellow bubble pack sitting by my front door.
Opening it, what was supposed to be a box of bandages was instead flattened pieces of cardboard with bandages inside.
"Sterile" bandages that you would put on a wound. Stuff that, you know, might want to be assured are clean and safe to use.
To top it off, due to the store's policies, it wasn't a returnable product. Even if the reason for returning it was product damaged in shipment.
At least until I threatened a chargeback for the vendor shipping a damaged product that was improperly packed. They made a policy exception and are shipping a replacement... we'll see if they actually package it right this time.
Shipping an order isn't the end of the transaction. It's only the beginning of the point where you customer gets to see the truth of your promises.
Make sure you're measuring metrics repeat purchase rate to see how satisfied your customers are. Be careful optimizing metrics like orders shipped. These bandages sure were "shipped" but they now cost the company way more in profit (and trust).
It's good business sense too. Customers who see you follow-up on promises come back and buy again.
If you don't have time to calculate repeat purchase rate, it's automatically included in every Repeat Customer Insights account.
Eric Davis
Retain the best customers and leave the worst for your competitors to steal
If you're having problems with customers not coming back or defecting to competitors, Repeat Customer Insights might help uncover why that's happening.
Using its analyses you can figure out how to better target the good customers and let the bad ones go elsewhere.