What AI tools did Grupo Falabella use?

Grupo Falabella used Salesforce Agentforce in this implementation within the Retail sector.

What business function does this AI use case address?

This use case focuses on Customer Service, demonstrating how AI can drive impact in that area.

RetailCustomer Service

How Grupo Falabella Uses Agentforce on WhatsApp to Resolve 60% of Requests

Grupo Falabella deployed Salesforce Agentforce on WhatsApp to handle customer service for Latin America's leading retail chain, autonomously resolving 60% of service requests and growing WhatsApp channel adoption from under 50% to over 70% within three weeks.

Impact

60%

Service requests resolved autonomously on WhatsApp

>70%

WhatsApp channel adoption

25%

Conversations outside business hours

Just over 2 months

Deployment time

Challenge

Grupo Falabella needed to scale customer service across Latin America in the channels where shoppers already engaged — primarily WhatsApp — without increasing agent headcount proportionally.

Solution

Salesforce Agentforce deployed on WhatsApp, connected via real-time APIs to the e-commerce platform, handling FAQs and order queries autonomously in natural Spanish and escalating complex cases to human agents.

Tools & Technologies

Salesforce Agentforce Agentic Management

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Grupo Falabella operates one of Latin America's largest retail empires, spanning department stores, home improvement chains, financial services, and e-commerce across Chile, Peru, Colombia, and other markets. With millions of customers generating high volumes of support requests around orders, products, and account queries, Falabella needed to scale customer service without proportionally scaling headcount — and to do it in the channels where customers already spent their time.

Falabella chose WhatsApp as the primary channel and Salesforce Agentforce as the AI layer. The implementation connected Agentforce to Falabella's e-commerce platform via real-time API calls, enabling the agent to answer FAQs from a knowledge base, pull live order status, and handle common post-purchase queries entirely within the WhatsApp conversation. The agent operates in natural, empathetic Spanish and escalates to a human representative only when the scenario exceeds its current capabilities.

Deployment took just over two months. Within the first three weeks of launch, WhatsApp's share of customer service volume grew from under 50% to over 70% of interactions — reflecting both the convenience of the channel and the quality of the AI-powered experience. Agentforce now autonomously resolves 60% of all service requests, removing them from the human agent queue entirely.

A quarter of all Agentforce conversations now happen outside Falabella's business hours, extending effective support coverage around the clock. Transfer rates to human agents are steadily declining as Agentforce handles more scenarios with each iteration. Falabella plans to expand the deployment to other brands within the Grupo including Sodimac, and to add transactional capabilities such as order cancellations.

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