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52%
52% -- share of customers unwilling to buy from business below 4 star rating for online consumers (2025)
52% of customers will not buy from a business that has less than a 4-star rating.
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52%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Geography
Global
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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IndustryRetail
RegionGlobal
RoleAll marketers
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online consumers: 52% share of customers unwilling to buy from business below 4 star rating. Source: (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/customers-wont-buy-below-4-star-rating
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