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4 Ways Ecommerce Returns Will Change in 2022

Retail TouchPoints

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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Trunk Time may be Costing You

Retail TouchPoints

Ecommerce retailers are looking for ways to minimize the bottom line impact of returns — some even forgoing recovering the product to save on shipping costs. Meanwhile, an astonishing 78% of consumers surveyed in BOXpoll from Pitney Bowes said their most recent online returns were inconvenient. Does anyone actually like returns?

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Improve Retail Pop-Up Experiences with Technology

Independent Retailer

From kiosks in malls and buildings, to branded tents at festivals, to mobile retail trucks in sports arena parking lots, pop-up retail ventures have one common goal: to put themselves in front of shoppers, in the right place, at the right time. They cannot be tethered to a laptop or desktop while at a kiosk or tent on site.

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These Were the Top Retail Stories of 2022

VMS

But backrooms filled up, investment money dried up, inflation cut into consumable income, workers sought to organize and loss prevention became a top-of-mind concern. And how can that not have an effect on consumers’ minds? The palm images, after being entered in a kiosk at the 65 locations, link shoppers’ palms to payment cards.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 309 Instacart IPO Filing

Retail Geek

there’s 330 million consumers or I guess population so they use that and this is kind of one of those hints I was talking about the basically said hey we’re. What is if you look at the average US consumer and you probably look at the. 27:08] A pretty robust business that the aggregate amount of.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 287 – Amazon Supply Chain Deep Dive with Marc Wulfraat

Retail Geek

A place where inventory is kept and where orders are picked act and put into the shipping carton. From there the typical shipping carton will now flow to us for Tatian Center which is a primary sort those buildings typically handle a 200 mile radius. [9:25]