Case Study: Retail Zoo
Retail Zoo rebuilds self-service across four brands
- Location: Melbourne, Sydney
- Industry: Retail
- Type: B2B & B2C
Introduction
Retail Zoo owns Boost Juice, Betty’s Burgers, Salsas Fresh Mex and CIBO Espresso. It brought in SuccessCX to rebuild the self-service help centres sitting behind all four.
This case study covers what changed in Retail Zoo’s customer experiences and in the day-to-day running of its support team.
Client Background
Retail Zoo is the company behind Boost Juice, Betty’s Burgers, Salsas Fresh Mex and CIBO Espresso.
It runs more than 660 stores worldwide and employs over 8,000 people across 12 countries. The group builds its reputation on fresh, quality food and on the customer service that goes with it.
Its brands are among the best known food and drink names in Australia.
Challenges
Retail Zoo was opening stores faster than its support setup could keep up with. Each brand ran its own help centre, and the content in them had fallen behind the questions customers were actually asking.
Three things needed fixing: refresh the help centres, tidy up how support work moved between stores and head office, and bring customer service for all four brands into one place without flattening what made each brand distinct.
Engagement with SuccessCX
Retail Zoo engaged SuccessCX to update its Customer Experiences and its self-service, knowing the setup had to scale with a growing customer base asking harder questions. The work covered four areas.
1. Self-service help centre and knowledge refresh
Customers needed to be able to answer their own common questions, per brand, without waiting for an agent.
That meant a clear layout people could navigate without instruction, content that covered the questions each brand actually gets, and a setup Retail Zoo could change itself later without calling anyone.
SuccessCX worked with Retail Zoo to rebuild the help centres for each brand: updating the content, redesigning the interfaces, and making the information easier to find.
2. Efficiency gains through collaboration
Stores and the central support office needed a faster way to talk to each other. The new setup routes operational issues straight to the people who can fix them, so problems get resolved instead of sitting in an inbox.
3. Consistent service across the brands
Centralising customer service let Retail Zoo hold one standard across all four brands while keeping each brand’s own voice. It also supported dashboard and performance reporting across the whole business, so agent coaching, feedback and performance management run the same way everywhere.
4. Reporting and analytics
New executive dashboards gave Retail Zoo detail it did not have before, tied to live customer data rather than last month’s summary.
The team can now track customer contact hour by hour. That makes it possible to spot a trend as it forms and act on it, rather than reading about it in a report weeks later.
Results
- Self-service and overall customer service both improved. Customers find answers to common questions on their own, and agents spend their time on the complex work.
- The rebuilt help centres are easier to navigate and cover more ground, so fewer common enquiries reach an agent at all.
- Stores and the central support office now communicate through one system, which means faster issue resolution and improved operational efficiency.
- Centralising customer service brought the four brands onto one standard of service.
- The reporting dashboards show what customers are asking about and how they feel about it, which gives Retail Zoo something concrete to act on.
Conclusion
Retail Zoo kept the service reputation its brands are built on, and can now deal with customer problems before they escalate.
Getting real-time information from the front line is what makes that possible. The company can see what is happening in stores today and adjust to it.
The self-service and customer service work with SuccessCX gave Retail Zoo a setup its four brands can keep growing on.
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