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Rethinking Retail Returns

Retail TouchPoints

Welcome to the world of retail returns, an expensive, cumbersome yet essential part of the industry. The number of returns is growing and managing them is critically important to maintaining margins and customer satisfaction. of all purchased goods were returned to retailers. of all purchased goods were returned to retailers.

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Adidas’ Adoption of Buy with Prime Signals Growing Legitimacy of Amazon Offering

Retail TouchPoints

Introduced in April 2022 , Buy with Prime allows brands to offer the benefits of Prime membership including fast free delivery, easy returns and 24/7 customer support to customers on their own DTC platforms. After the purchase is made, Amazon fulfills all Prime-eligible items in the order.

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How AI-Driven Search and Personalization Boosted AOV 5.5% for Freedom Furniture

Retail TouchPoints

First Step: Expanding the Online Offering Part of the reason for that low number was the fact that the companys website only featured a subset of products and minimal fulfillment capabilities. Then, in 2022 the retailer debuted a dropship channel for online sales.

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Amazon is set to take off in Australia this year, get ready

Inside Retail

billion in 2022. billion in gross merchandise volume (total spend before fees, discounts and returns) up from $4.5 This, combined with Amazons dedicated focus on building a vast fulfilment network to underpin its delivery proposition, has allowed the brand to achieve the size and scale it has in the UK.

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Cost-cutting drives Virgin Wines back to profitability

Retail Gazette

Virgin Wines has returned to profitability after implementing a significant cost-cutting initiative across the business. ” Related Story Virgin Wines launches tie-up with Ocado 04/10/2024 x 8:03 AM Fulfilment costs at Virgin Wines also dropped by two percentage points to 12% of revenue, despite a 10% rise in the national living wage.

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What the closure of MyDeal signals about the future of marketplaces in Australia

Inside Retail

The company concluded that MyDeal lacked a clear pathway to profitability or adequate return on capital. According to its ASX announcement, Woolworths acquired an 80 per cent stake in MyDeal in 2022 for $217.4 Woolworths tried to play Amazon’s game without Amazon’s infrastructure, data or customer base,” he added.

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How Retailers can Build Their Fan Base with Frictionless Research Strategies

Retail TouchPoints

The reason gen AI rapidly gained mainstream adoption after OpenAIs launch of ChatGPT in 2022 was due to its ability to create novel content (text, images, music) from user prompts. Returns are a hassle for fashion retailers, costing a projected $890 billion in 2024, and a source of disappointment to customers.