Industry benchmark · General retail · 2026

Who's winning the digital CX race in Australian retail?

We audited 36 leading retailers across 9 categories on two axes: 105 functionality criteria and 48 experience checkpoints, web and app. See who leads, who lags, and the moves that win returning shoppers, with the evidence behind every score. Fashion & apparel has its own report →

The leaderboardcombined · coverage + quality
Bunnings90
Woolworths89
David Jones88
Retailer 486
Retailer 585
Retailer 684
+ 33 more retailers, ranked on both axes, in the full report
36
Retailers audited
105
Functionality criteria
48
Quality checkpoints
9
Categories
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Get the one-page snapshot: the leaders, a teaser of the shifts, and how the two-axis audit works. The full ranking, per-channel scores and recommendations live in the report.

Three of the headlines

What the data surfaced

  • Features are won, craft is the gap: discount and marketplace players ship the most features but craft the least (+19 to +20).
  • Accessibility is the weak link: 55%, the weakest group in every category, and an enforceable risk under the EU Accessibility Act.
  • Health & pharmacy trails: bottom of the field on both axes.
  • + more, plus 2026 to 2028 predictions, in the report.

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What's inside

Everything you need to know where you stand

A designed report in five sections: the two-axis benchmark, the patterns behind it, and what to do next.

01

The full leaderboard

All 36 retailers ranked on the combined score, with coverage and quality broken out so you see exactly where a brand wins and where it only looks busy.

02

Coverage vs quality

The two-axis map. 105 functionality criteria (what exists) against 48 experience checkpoints (how well it's built), and where the two diverge.

03

The category league

All 9 categories ranked on experience, so you can see where your sector sits and who sets the pace in it.

04

Where craft is owed

The framework breakdown by quality group, the coverage–quality gap, and the two-way returns & visualisation insight.

05

The shifts + predictions

Critical-mass adoption, accessibility risk, and where retail UX heads from 2026 to 2028, so your roadmap is ahead of the curve.

06

Recommendations + method

The practical moves that lift the experience, plus the full, repeatable methodology behind every score.

Who it's for

Two readers, one source of truth

Retailers

See exactly where you rank

Know your position against every competitor in your category, which table-stakes you're missing, and where a single fix moves the needle on the shopper experience.

Vendors & agencies

Market intelligence you can act on

Account-level insight into how every retailer performs, to sharpen your pitch, prove the gap, and fuel your own thought leadership.

Who benefits

Built for the people who own the experience

The benchmark turns straight into the work you already plan and defend each year.

Product Owners & Managers

Plan your roadmap on evidence

Benchmark every competitor, prioritise the UX and dev backlog, and justify what makes the cut with data your stakeholders trust. Catch the table-stakes gaps before they cost you a sale.

Design & UX Leaders

Make the case, focus the testing

Build the business case for UX investment, set your annual OKRs against the field, and point internal usability testing at the experiences that matter most to shoppers.

Pricing

Choose your package

One purchase, instant delivery, GST included. Each tier adds more ways to act on the findings: from reading the benchmark, to going deep on your category, to citing it publicly.

The Report
Know where the industry stands
A$3,500one-off · incl. GST
  • Full benchmark report (PDF)
  • All 36 retailers ranked on two axes: coverage + quality
  • The 9-category league + the shifts and predictions
  • Recommendations + methodology
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Partner
Leverage it commercially
A$12,000from · invoiced
  • Everything in Team + Readout
  • Right to cite externally, with attribution
  • Use in pitches, proposals & content
  • Bespoke survey-design consult
  • Invoice + PO friendly
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Add: your category deep-dive
One category isolated: every brand ranked, per-channel breakdown, the gaps and leaders specific to your sector. Included free in Team + Readout.
+ A$1,500

After fashion & apparel? See the Fashion benchmark → · Need another industry, like banking or QSR? Commission a custom benchmark →

Where to next

The benchmark is half the picture

This report shows the tangible: what each retailer has built, and who leads. The bigger gains come from the intangible, the motivations, friction and emotion only shoppers can voice. That is a CX User Study, and Jackdraw runs it three ways.

Start here
01

CX Survey Script

A ready-to-run questionnaire mapped to this benchmark's themes, productised through our Audit Survey Tool. Lowest effort, fastest signal: field it on your own platform and hear directly from shoppers.

02

Bespoke study design

A study designed around your specific questions and shopper segments, for when an off-the-shelf script isn't enough and you need precision.

03

Run the full study

We field it end-to-end: a representative sample sourced for you, analysis and a readout delivered. Hands-off, statistically valid and decision-ready. Sample via a research partner, priced separately.

Want to scope a study, or pair it with the benchmark? Talk to Jackdraw →

Why Jackdraw

Evidence, not opinion

Every score in this report has a reason behind it: a page, a screen, a documented check. No vibes, no vendor spin. Just the small, telling details that separate a good experience from a great one.

Jackdraw is a Melbourne CX consultancy with 15+ years across customer and user experience, built on understanding every person an experience touches.

FAQ

Good questions

What exactly do I get, and how is it delivered?

A professionally designed PDF report (five sections) plus the one-page snapshot. After purchase you'll receive it by email, instant for The Report and Team tiers.

What's the two-axis score?

Every retailer is scored on two things: coverage (105 functionality criteria, the observable "what exists") and quality (48 experience checkpoints drawn from 13 UX frameworks, "how well it's built"). The combined score is the average. The report shows both, because shipping features and crafting an experience are not the same thing.

What's the difference between the packages?

The Report is the benchmark itself, for one reader. Team + Readout adds a deep-dive on your category, a live readout of your brand's position, editable slides, an internal team licence and a CX Survey Script starter. Partner adds the right for vendors and agencies to cite the findings externally, with attribution, in pitches, proposals and content.

How current is the data, and do you update it?

The audit was run in 2026 against live sites and app-store listings. Digital experiences move fast, so we refresh every 6 months, and past buyers renew at roughly half price.

Is fashion in this report?

No. Fashion & apparel has its own dedicated benchmark of 47 brands. Department stores and marketplaces (David Jones, Myer, Amazon, Kogan) appear in both, since shoppers cross between them. See the Fashion benchmark.

GST, invoices and purchase orders?

All prices include GST and you'll get a tax invoice. The Partner tier is invoiced and PO-friendly for procurement.

Australian General Retail UX Benchmark 2026

Know exactly where you stand.

The full benchmark, the shifts, and what to do next, from A$3,500.