Retail Industry

Your Google reviews contain more insight than your last market research study.

Customers are publicly rating your stores, your staff, your products, and your checkout experience every single day. GWR's Advanced CX Analytics extracts structured intelligence from this unstructured data — turning thousands of reviews into a clear picture of what's working and what's not, by location.

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01The Challenge

You track sales per square foot, footfall, and conversion. But you don't systematically track what customers are saying about your stores in public. That public sentiment is influencing buying decisions right now — and it's data you already have but aren't using.

Reputation varies by location and nobody owns it.

Your flagship has a 4.6 on Google. Your suburban branch has a 3.8. The gap represents lost foot traffic, lost sales, and a brand perception problem that no amount of marketing spend can fix.

You're not benchmarking against competitors.

You know your NPS. But do you know how your stores compare to the competition on staff helpfulness, product range, checkout speed, or return experience? Your customers are making that comparison every day.

Customer sentiment trends are invisible until they're crises.

A gradual decline in cleanliness mentions across three stores goes unnoticed for months. By the time it shows up in sales data, the reputation damage is already done.

02The Cost of Inaction

97% of consumers read reviews before visiting a store. Your online reputation is your new shopfront — and right now, it's being shaped by thousands of data points you're not systematically analysing.

97%

of consumers read online reviews before choosing where to shop

0.8

star rating difference can mean 30%+ difference in foot traffic

86%

of consumers won't buy from a brand with negative reviews

71%

of consumers expect personalised interactions from retail brands

03The Solution

Collect

Aggregate all public reviews across Google, social media, and relevant platforms into a unified dataset by store location.

Decode

Apply AI-powered sentiment analysis to categorise feedback by theme: staff, products, environment, checkout, pricing, returns.

Compare

Benchmark store performance against each other and against key competitors on every sentiment dimension.

Direct

Deliver store-level insight dashboards with prioritised action items ranked by frequency, severity, and commercial impact.

80K+

Reviews Analysed

20+

Retail Brands Benchmarked

Sentiment Dimensions Tracked

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Tell us about your stores and we'll show you what your customers are really saying — and how you compare to the competition.

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