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Survey your buyers on what rewards they want, then launch those rewards publicly as co-designed by the customer base.
230-store
home décor chain
18,000
responses in a matter of weeks
10-question
Google Form and a
$200
gift-card incentive pool
At Home, the 230-store home décor chain, handed its loyalty members direct input into the program's next iteration, according to Retail Dive. The retailer surveyed existing members on what features mattered most—reward thresholds, exclusive access, personalization options—and collected 18,000 responses in a matter of weeks. The redesigned program launched with changes pulled straight from that feedback, turning the loyalty base into both focus group and early adopters at once.
The mechanics were straightforward. At Home distributed a structured survey to its loyalty cohort, asking members to rank program elements and suggest additions. The company made clear that responses would inform real design decisions, not disappear into a research archive. When the revised program rolled out, At Home published which member suggestions had been adopted and why, closing the loop in public.
This works because co-design creates pre-launch advocates. When customers see their own feedback embedded in the final product, they shift from passive recipients to stakeholders with reputational skin in the game. They tell peers. They defend the program in social threads. They renew at higher rates because they helped build the thing. At Home converted 18,000 survey respondents into 18,000 organic salespeople before the new loyalty tier went live. The survey itself became the marketing event.
The secondary benefit is data capture at depth. A generic "Would you recommend us?" survey yields a score. A co-design survey yields prioritized feature requests, budget tolerance signals, and segmentation gold. At Home learned which perks drive retention among high-AOV buyers versus frequent small-ticket shoppers, then engineered tiering around those insights. The customers told the company exactly how to sell to them, and the company listened in public.
A small physical-product brand runs this play with a 10-question Google Form and a $200 gift-card incentive pool. Email your existing customer list—or your Shopify "purchased more than twice" segment—with a plain subject line: "Help us build the next version of [Brand] Rewards." Inside, ask: What would make you buy more often? Free shipping threshold? Early access to new drops? Referral bonuses? Offer entry into a drawing for $50 in store credit per 100 responses. Ship the form on Monday, close it Friday, tally results over the weekend. Announce the winning features the following Tuesday in a second email: "You told us X. We built it. Here's how it works." Launch the revised program that same week. Total cost: survey tool free, incentive $200, execution time 10 days. You now have a permission asset to re-engage lapsed buyers and a content angle for acquisition creative.
The broader pattern is turning program design into a participatory event rather than an internal committee output. At Home didn't hire a consultant to guess what customers wanted—they asked, then built in public. The act of asking became the proof of listening, which is the loyalty mechanic itself. The survey was the product.
For brands stuck in low-repeat cycles, the play is a diagnostic and a reactivation campaign in one instrument. You learn why customers aren't coming back, and you give them a reason to pay attention again while you fix it.
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