Walmart nps( net promoter score) and adherence

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rphola123

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Hello,

how’s everyone doing with these two metric indicators and any helpful tips on how to improve them for a store.
Thanks in advance

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NPS - do your own surveys
Adherence - get rid of bad customers

Actually promoting NPS at pickup will prob you get more surveys if your customers are literate but that could backfire.

Clear lines ASAP

Adherence - 90 day conversion (reduce # of interactions and give more slack for PDC) - do RXC

It is "thought" that deactivation of scripts allows Rx to fall off the adherence list so it doesn't ding you

The reality of adherence is if you have poor and uneducated for customers you will have bad adherence. We have a store in Northern California that is touted for good OOS rate, decent adh rate and good NPS and doing 3000+ actual Rx a week (not 30->90 converted) but that is not a ghetto store and all the techs and pharmacists are at least competent prob (somewhere in central valley). Think how much has to hit correctly for a smooth-functioning "busy" store
 
NPS - do your own surveys
Adherence - get rid of bad customers

Actually promoting NPS at pickup will prob you get more surveys if your customers are literate but that could backfire.

Clear lines ASAP

Adherence - 90 day conversion (reduce # of interactions and give more slack for PDC) - do RXC

It is "thought" that deactivation of scripts allows Rx to fall off the adherence list so it doesn't ding you

The reality of adherence is if you have poor and uneducated for customers you will have bad adherence. We have a store in Northern California that is touted for good OOS rate, decent adh rate and good NPS and doing 3000+ actual Rx a week (not 30->90 converted) but that is not a ghetto store and all the techs and pharmacists are at least competent prob (somewhere in central valley). Think how much has to hit correctly for a smooth-functioning "busy" store

do you actually work for walmart? because it's impossible to do your own surveys in walmart's system
 
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People used to do it all the time. New system is pretty cheat-proof.

Only way to cheat now is convince your friends to get rx from your store, enroll them into text messaging and then have them do the survey.
 
Like Sine Cura mentioned get the customer out asap. Our NPS score been ranging between 91 to 94 and we don't do our own survey. Acknowledge the customer as soon as they get in line, my techs drop what they doing and help the customer unless they are helping someone else, or are on the phone. If they are busy, then I jump in to help customer. We try not to have more than 1 customer in line in store unless we short staff. Get drive thru line moving, if there a problem have them park, or offer to call when issue resolved so you can have the line moving. Some customers are unreasonable and won't move then I will try to speake to them or if I can quickly get them out. Call or send text notification when there is a problem, so sign people up for text message. We are NHM and only do 1300 to 1400 a week though.

I'm still trying to improve adherence, at 78 right now, will try Sine Cura tip.
 
do you actually work for walmart? because it's impossible to do your own surveys in walmart's system

Do receipt survey codes still exist? Yes

I mean you have to be pretty stupid to risk your relatively cush-for-retail job for some surveys that don't seem to matter actually. Anyone got fired for bad scores yet? Demoted? Prob not as the Walmart HR process is sclerotic. You are far more likely to be let go in the next around of algorithmic culling.

However I've known people contacted for survey aberrations and disappeared for encouraging fake surveys.

Since it appears a lot of stores are seeing decreases in script volume for whatever reason (e.g., more customers doing mail order through their prescription subsidy plan instead of going to the pharmacy), I can see adherence numbers taking a huge hit temporarily as those pts no longer go to your pharmacy but the system will not re-calculate correctly. I speculate this is likely to happen because I see it with my own store with 5 patients with star-rating drugs dying in 2019 and many more going elsewhere. Guess we didn't do a good job of promoting adherence if people dead!

90-day conversion is also important to cut down the number of stupid interactions. We have a major Medicaid plan that now permits 90-day supply for maintenance meds (not for MTX though wut?) and it's a goddamned godsend not to interact with those customers as often. Sure, Medicaid customers don't affect your adherence rate until they do when they get Medicare (but I haven't had to pay for prescriptions my whole life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111one)
 
do you actually work for walmart? because it's impossible to do your own surveys in walmart's system
Now the surveys are mostly sent to the customers on their phone if they use the app or something like that. In the past you went to a website printed on the receipt to do the surveys. That might still exist, I'm not sure, but the vast majority of surveys are done on a smart phone.

In the past, when customers had to go to a website and do a lengthy survey, very few would actually do it on their own, and then usually only if they were mad. So if you kept a few receipts and do them yourself and make a big impact, but that's not going to do much now if it even works at all.

To get a good score (and mine is), don't ignore customers, react to lines, be nice, take care of customers etc, basically provide good service. Under the old system you pretty much had to do your own surveys or talk the customers who like you into doing them, so a few "fans" have an outsized impact. My scores were **** then because I didn't do either.
 
I am pretty sure receipt surveys are gone for good. They might exist on paper but they don't count toward pharmacy. It's for store only.

For NPS: Clear lines ASAP. Keep meds in stock by running replenishment unavailable report. WM replenishment is pathetic and you can't rely on it to order even the most common items. Utilize Keep in Stock cards. Call people immediately if they aren't enrolled in to text about their out of stock meds.

For improving adherence, the key is enroll as many people as you can into text messaging; should be easy now considering you can do it at register. We also call day 5 in Pick up to remind them about picking up their scripts. You can also utilize compliance report to call people whose refills are due in next couple of days.

Adherence is impossible metric to meet because you will always have non-compliant clientele. All you can do is improve it.
 
Have anyone looked at replenished unavailable report (not 100% sure the name of the report) but I get it every Friday. It showed an estimated amount I need for the week, anything negative I should check to order, anything positive then I have plenty. So I only look at the negative one and order if needed. Sometimes items are old NDC that warehouse already switched so I ignore those. The list is pretty short. Maybe that will help with out of stock a bit.
 
The main problem we are currently having with replenishment is 38 SMART items not replenishing due to being "deleted," then when you call merchandising to push a manual order 'they' claim you can't order as it cannot be found.

Everyone getting 6mm syringes it is.
 
Now the surveys are mostly sent to the customers on their phone if they use the app or something like that. In the past you went to a website printed on the receipt to do the surveys. That might still exist, I'm not sure, but the vast majority of surveys are done on a smart phone.

In the past, when customers had to go to a website and do a lengthy survey, very few would actually do it on their own, and then usually only if they were mad. So if you kept a few receipts and do them yourself and make a big impact, but that's not going to do much now if it even works at all.

To get a good score (and mine is), don't ignore customers, react to lines, be nice, take care of customers etc, basically provide good service. Under the old system you pretty much had to do your own surveys or talk the customers who like you into doing them, so a few "fans" have an outsized impact. My scores were **** then because I didn't do either.

I didn't see a no in this long response, but nevertheless it definitely reveals no you don't currently work for walmart or at least you haven't in the past couple of years. It is impossible to do your own surveys in Walmart system.
 
They may stop receipt surveys like they did in the past but they are supposed to work now (and count toward NPS), even if the customer gets a text invitation to do the survey.

Why would it be "impossible" to do your store's surveys then if the receipt surveys still work? You would just pick the option "no I do not work for Walmart etc."

But as I said before, why even bother doing surveys especially now since the NPS goal is store-specific.
 
Remember a "reason" for NPS is Walmart trying to expand in this degenerate health care "delivery" environment and they're trying to shore up their rep:


Bad optics, bad for business
 
Even the crappiest EBT cesspool magnet does > $60m in sales a year but the staffing level is arguably not where it should due to massive turnover and morale (because you have to deal with this human refuse every day for min wage.)

You'd have to go to an actual "nice" Walmart to get legitimate help but I'm not sure where those kinds of places would be aside from the lily white Midwest or maybe a decent suburban area

For the Sacramento area that is literally like 7 stores out of 45
 
Bump.. How’s everyone coping with NPS now that it’s the main focus and evey higher up is obsessed with it?
 
5-star is not as bad as NPS since 1 => 1, 2 => 2, 3 => 3 and so on, instead of 0-6 NPS = -1.

Yes, they correlate and 1-3 = "bad" but the 5-star goals are more realistic
 
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