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Home Improvement Retailers Fight Inflation with Stand-Out Customer Service, J.D. Power Finds

By: via Business Wire

Ace Hardware Ranks Highest in Customer Satisfaction for 15th Time in 16 Years

With the price of lumber hitting record highs1 and supply chain challenges still limiting available stock of lawn and garden supplies and other seasonal goods, home improvement retailers should be struggling to keep customers happy. However, according to the J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Home Improvement Retailer Satisfaction Study,SM released today, customer satisfaction with home improvement retailers has never been higher. The key to that strong performance: helpful staff and great in-store customer service.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220518005462/en/

J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Home Improvement Retailer Satisfaction Study (Graphic: Business Wire)

J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Home Improvement Retailer Satisfaction Study (Graphic: Business Wire)

“Despite the countless challenges home improvement retailers have faced during the past two years, we’re seeing all-time high levels of customer satisfaction,” said Christina Cooley, director of the home and retail intelligence practice at J.D. Power. “Peeling back the layers to better understand this phenomenon, the stand-out performers in this year’s study are differentiating themselves from the competition and driving scores higher by nailing down the formula for helpful staff and great customer service.”

Following are some key findings of the 2022 study:

  • Record high customer satisfaction with home improvement retailers: Overall customer satisfaction with home improvement retailers is 849 (on a 1,000-point scale), up a significant 22 points from the 2021 study. Scores improve for all ranked retailers.
  • Staff and service drive largest spread in scores: While all retailers evaluated in the study score within a few points of one another on price satisfaction, the top-performing retailers set themselves apart by outperforming on staff and service metrics—with the gap from top to bottom being 60 points. Customers note product knowledge, courtesy of sales staff and availability of staff as key drivers of strong performance.
  • Tick tock, tick tock: The longer a customer waits to be approached by a sales associate, the lower the satisfaction. The average wait has increased to 6.1 minutes in 2022 from 5.6 minutes in 2021. The highest-performing retailers have established a best-in-class benchmark of assisting customers in less than five minutes.
  • Big box stores show significant improvement: Ace Hardware continues its long streak of highest-ranked performance in the home improvement retailer category, but the big box stores—Lowe’s and Home Depot—see the biggest year-over-year gains in customer satisfaction.

Study Ranking

Ace Hardware ranks highest in customer satisfaction among home improvement retailers for the 15th time in 16 years, with a score of 869. Lowe’s (849) and Menards (849) rank second in a tie.

The 2022 U.S. Home Improvement Retailer Satisfaction Study measures customer satisfaction with home improvement retailers by examining five factors (in alphabetical order): in-store experience; merchandise; online experience; price; and staff and service. The study is based on responses from 2,114 customers who purchased home improvement-related products from a home improvement retailer within the previous 12 months. The study was fielded from December 2021 through February 2022.

For more information about the U.S. Home Improvement Retailer Satisfaction Study, visit https://www.jdpower.com/business/resource/us-home-improvement-retailer-satisfaction-study.

See the online press release at http://www.jdpower.com/pr-id/2022054.

About J.D. Power

J.D. Power is a global leader in consumer insights, advisory services and data and analytics. A pioneer in the use of big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic modeling capabilities to understand consumer behavior, J.D. Power has been delivering incisive industry intelligence on customer interactions with brands and products for more than 50 years. The world's leading businesses across major industries rely on J.D. Power to guide their customer-facing strategies.

J.D. Power has offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. To learn more about the company’s business offerings, visit JDPower.com/business. The J.D. Power auto shopping tool can be found at JDPower.com.

About J.D. Power and Advertising/Promotional Rules: www.jdpower.com/business/about-us/press-release-info

1 “Lumber Prices in 2020 and 2021 Set Record Highs Even When Adjusted for Inflation,” National Association of Homebuilders, Feb. 4, 2022 https://www.nahb.org/blog/2022/02/lumber-prices-in-2020-and-2021-set-record-highs-even-when-adjusted-for-inflation/#:~:text=In%20May%202021%2C%20the%20FLCP,each%20a%20new%20annual%20record.

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