Neiman Marcus And Sears Crushed In New E-Commerce Survey

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Customer satisfaction with the e-commerce operations at Neiman Marcus and Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD) was particularly bad this shopping season based on research covering the 40 largest US retailers based on internet revenue. The poll results come from a survey of 10,000  respondents who visited the websites in November and December, according to research firm ForeSee.

The e-commerce satisfaction index ForeSee created has a maximum score of 100.

The results are especially troubling for Neiman Marcus which has posted 18 months of declining retail sales. It had a score in the ForeSee research of 73. Sears, which has struggled with a turnaround since buying K-Mart, had a relatively low score of 75.

Gas (NYSE:GPS), Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK), Target (NYSE:TGT), Best Buy (NYSE:BBY), and SonyStyle (NYSE:SNE) posted numbers below the survey’s median number.

It would not surprise anyone that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) finished first in the poll with at satisfaction rating of 87, or that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and NetFlix (NASDAQ:NFLX) did well. The firm’s with the best reputations for taking care of customers seem to be keeping those reputations. The weak retailers, in the meantime, are not doing themselves any favors by fumbling their online operations.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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