Retail CX lifts +0.22 YoY — Digital ease and delivery lead the way

Headline movements reflect steady gains in checkout UX and fewer delivery incidents. Value remains stable with mild price pressure.

Drivers performance snapshot

Across the five core drivers, Convenience and Value show the clearest month-on-month improvement.

Convenience outperforms prior month; Trust lags slightly vs category peers.

Driver share is rebalancing toward Value as price sensitivity rises.

Industry Themes September 2025

Trend has been positive since May with a shallow mid-winter dip.

Top CXBI Movers

Brands with the largest positive/negative monthly shifts.

Supermarkets — Brand spotlight: Alpha

Alpha’s NPS verbatims cite faster issue resolution.

Supermarkets — Brand spotlight: Beta

Beta’s gains came from proactive outage comms.

Showcase Insights September 2025

Showcase Insights September 2025

Deeper analysis shows onboarding friction disproportionately impacts new-to-category customers.

Streamlined checkout reduces drop-off

Upgraded forms and fewer redirects cut errors by 18%.

Delivery windows tightened

New SLAs decreased late deliveries by 11%.

Service handoffs simplified

First-contact resolution improved by 7% with better routing.

Industry Themes September 2025

Three macro themes defined performance this month.

Digital ease rises outside metros

Regional customers saw the largest reduction in friction points.

Delivery reliability matters most

Missed deliveries remained the top churn trigger.

Service consistency beats surprises

Predictability continues to correlate with retention.

Methodology & Confidence Statement

CXBI aggregates real customer signals across public and first-party sources, normalised to a common taxonomy of drivers (Value, Quality, Service, Convenience, Trust). Scores are indexed to a rolling 12-month baseline and reported monthly with MoM and YoY deltas. See our full methodology for sampling, weighting, exclusion rules, and confidence intervals.

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