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Amazon Enlists Staples, Local Businesses to Help with Returns and Delivery

Retail TouchPoints

In Amazon ’s latest moves to bolster its logistics and fulfillment network, the company has partnered with Staples to accept customer returns and is looking for 2,500 local business to join its new Hub Delivery network. Staples Joins Amazon’s Network of Returns Partners By July 31, 2023, all Staples U.S. Retail in a statement.

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Preparing for the Rise in Online Retail Returns

Retail TouchPoints

In 2021, returns cost retailers a whopping $761 billion , or almost 17% of total U.S. This year the powerful combination of the special sale dates in Q4 (like Target, Amazon and Walmart holding October Black Friday events) and an increase in ecommerce holiday shopping means that this upward trend for returns will continue.

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Amazon Reveals First Locale to Receive Prime Air Drone Deliveries

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Back in 2013, Jeff Bezos proclaimed his plans to begin delivering packages by drone on a 60 Minutes interview. It will then safely release the package, rise back up to altitude and return to base. Now, nine years and more than two dozen prototypes later, Amazon is ready to launch its drone delivery program.

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How New Balance is stepping into sneaker resale with Reconsidered launch

Inside Retail

Consumers can now view and shop for pre-owned shoes through the brand’s website. Items include consumer returns and cosmetically imperfect footwear that cannot be sold as new but have been cleaned as needed. Earlier this month, American footwear brand New Balance announced the launch of its new resale program, Reconsidered.

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How Floyd is Bringing its Sustainability Mission ‘Full Cycle’ with Recommerce

Retail TouchPoints

Take an increasingly eco-conscious consumer set, combine it with decades-high inflation and supply chain snarls tying up new inventory and you have the perfect recipe for the rise of resale. The Outsized Problem of Oversize Returns. In fact, the EPA estimates 9 million tons of furniture ends up in dumps every year. .

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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

Mistakes may take longer to rectify Not having inventory in-house means the process of dealing with back-orders, lost shipments, and returns can be troublesome. an online order fulfillment service, defines a stock-out as the sale of an out-of-stock product by a retailer, due to infrequent product level reporting by the supplier.

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Amazon’s holiday-quarter forecast disappoints as labour, supply issues mount

Inside Retail

Andy Jassy, who took the helm of Amazon as CEO in July, said in a statement the company would incur several billion dollars of extra expenses in its consumer business to deal with higher shipping costs, increased wages and labour shortages. In the just-ended third quarter, net income fell by about 50% to $3.16 4 this year.