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Driving customer and business value through generative AI in food retail

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A leading UK food retailer is using Generative AI to take the customer experience to new heights and lower costs



  • The challenge

    The company was looking for new ways to unlock the next level of transformation in pursuing excellence in their customers鈥� experience.


    Without putting limits or restrictions on the approaches they might take, they wanted to understand the 鈥榓rt of the possible鈥� 鈥� all the potential options they should be considering to unlock the next level of transformation in pursuing customer experience excellence.

  • The opportunity

    The 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 in the UK team collaborated with the retailer鈥檚 global business services function to transform service delivery and reduce costs, beginning with an AI prototype that would reduce the workloads of contact center agents by deflecting straightforward customer enquiries to automated channels. By doing so, the company could then deliver an enhanced experience to customers who have more complex questions that require human support from the company鈥檚 experienced contact center colleagues.


    The transformation process began with the deployment of a five week accelerated program to identify potential AI opportunities to optimize cost and value in the contact center. It included an evaluation of the current service delivery performance; a functional maturity assessment; extensive KPI benchmarking; contact center immersion observations.

  • The outcome

    A robust customer, employee, and business value case for AI transformation was developed along with a high-level customer lifecycle framework based on best practices.

    An AI technology prototype was developed that leveraged virtual agent chatbots and interactive voice response (IVR) to demonstrate 鈥渢he art of the possible鈥� 鈥� what was realistically achievable in transforming the retailer鈥檚 customer experience and creating value for both the customer and the business.

    A 拢16m cost-savings opportunity in service delivery has been identified (with the potential for savings of 拢80m+ across the enterprise), and the workload of customer service agents is to be reduced with 21 percent of phone interactions being handled by next-gen IVR and 26 percent of text conversations being handled fully by next-gen chatbots.


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The person behind the story


Tim is deputy head of 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网鈥檚 Customer Practice, focused on helping clients grow faster and more effectively. We do this by helping deliver the best customer, digital and employee experiences.听

Tim Knight

Partner, Customer Advisory

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