Publix, Aldi, and H-E-B Lead Supermarkets in Customer Experience

We recently released the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings that ranks the customer experience of 293 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers.

here are some highlights from the supermarket chains in the ratings:

• Of the 20 industries we evaluated in the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings, supermarket chains earned the highest overall score, with an average rating of 79% and took five of the top ten spots.
• The average industry score for the effort component dropped from 85% in 2014 to 84% in 2015, while the average score for the emotion component dropped from 69% to 68%. The average industry score for success remained steady at 84%, which it has stayed at since 2013. Overall, the industry average for supermarkets remained about the same between 2014 and 2015.
• With a rating of 85%, Publix was the highest-rated supermarket chain and the highest rated company overall, ranking 1^st out of the 293 companies we evaluated and improving its score by two percentage-points from last year. Next on the list are Aldi and H-E-B (84%) tied for second place overall, Trader Joe’s placing in 4^th with 82%, and Hannaford’s placing in 8^th with 81%.
• Bi-Lo was the lowest-rated supermarket, scoring 66% overall, and also received the lowest score for each of the three components. Bi-Lo scored 11.2 percentage-points below average for success, 14 points below for effort, and 12.1 points below for emotion.
• Of the 13 supermarket chains that we evaluated in both 2014 and 2015, seven of them improved their scores over the past year. Hy-Vee, Whole Foods, and Giant Eagle increased their scores the most, each going up by 3 percentage-points in the last year.
• H-E-B’s—last year’s overall winner in the Ratings—score decline the most in the industry, going down from 88% in 2014 to 84% in 2015.