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Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 23, 2025
Geekplus robots are now in use at all three of Happy Returns’ Hubs. Image courtesy Happy Returns) Inside a large warehouse in Pennsylvania, dozens of black robots dart and swirl across a polished concrete floor. Were inside one of the three Happy Returns Hubs across the U.S. The rate of goods returned in the U.S.
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 24, 2025
Retailers might want to grimly add and product returns to that list of lifes inevitabilities. consumers returned $890 billion in merchandise in 2024, equaling 16.9% Charges for returns should be on an exception basis only. I think its fair to say that very few retailers are super-explicit about their return policy, said Black.
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Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Returns are a cost of doing business for any retailer. In the wake of COVID-19, returns are receiving serious (and necessary) attention for several key reasons: Retailers are spending more processing returns in stores. For retailers struggling to avoid bankruptcy or emerge from it, a growing returns quagmire could be deadly.
Inside Retail
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
In one example, Canadian apparel retailer ALDO Group has created a demand-forecasting machine learning model called Delphine. In such times, shipments get delayed and even lost, shipping costs and storage costs spiral and customer frustration increases when goods fail to arrive. Businesses are getting increased returns every year.
Retail TouchPoints
AUGUST 16, 2021
Returns provide brands and retailers the opportunity to delight their customers. market saw over $400B in returns in 2020. If this dollar value were a proxy for revenues, the returns channel would be the second largest global retailer behind Walmart. That is a significant amount of capital tied up in the returns channel!
Retail TouchPoints
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Seeking to minimize customers’ return complexities, Walmart has partnered with FedEx for at-home pickup of unwanted gifts or ill-fitting apparel. Customers can schedule returns via the new Carrier Pickup by FedEx service for products that have been shipped and sold by Walmart.com, using either the website or the Walmart app.
Retail TouchPoints
AUGUST 10, 2020
Although public health officials say it’s unlikely COVID-19 infections can be spread by surfaces or physical objects, retailers are being cautious about how they handle returned merchandise. They are instituting disinfection processes and quarantine periods that keep those items from returning to stock for a varying number of days.
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