Retail TouchPoints
MAY 17, 2024
As stores try to balance protecting profit margins while delivering a unified customer experience, the escalating cost of returns has reached a breaking point. returns reached a staggering $743 billion in 2023, representing over 14.5% As a result of this burgeoning problem, retailers have started to incorporate return fees.
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 8, 2021
million returns during the week of Jan. 4, 2021, a 23% rise from the highest volume return period in the 2019 peak-season cycle, according to Freight Waves. UPS expects return volumes to be distributed evenly throughout the week rather than concentrated on one or two days. UPS expects to handle 8.75 An estimated 1.75
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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
JANUARY 28, 2022
retail sales in 2021, or $761 billion in merchandise, will be returned this year, according to a report from the National Retail Federation and Appriss Retail. The total rate of returns is up from the 10.6% reported during 2020, but despite soaring ecommerce adoption, online returns will remain in line with recent years at 20.8%.
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Retail TouchPoints
MAY 30, 2022
A huge part of retaining customers is having a return policy that is clear and concise, giving customers the security they expect and want. In trying to accommodate all customer demands while simultaneously fighting for market share in a rapidly expanding and competitive fashion industry, retailers are relaxing their return policies.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 24, 2022
Ask any retailer or consumer and they’ll agree on this point: ecommerce returns are a problem — albeit for diametrically opposed reasons. Meanwhile, more than three in four (78%) consumers say they’ve had an inconvenient online returns experience recently, per Pitney Bowes latest BOXpoll survey. consumers love the USPS.
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