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Rethinking Returns: Innovative Strategies for Retailers to Drive Growth in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

Long viewed as a necessary evil, the retail returns process is emerging as an unexpected avenue for growth and customer engagement. In the rapidly expanding ecommerce market, projected to reach $3 billion in 2023, a significant 20% to 30% of online purchases end up being returned. Speed-to-restock is key in the returns cycle.

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Planning to sell online in the US? Here are some tactics to ensure success

Inside Retail

Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns , shares with Inside Retail advice on getting started in the US market, some tips on cross-border shipping and logistics – including managing returns in a way that builds customer loyalty – and how to drive repeat business.

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Adore Beauty founders to step back from management roles

Inside Retail

Despite this, it still saw a 6 per cent increase in returning customers, with loyalty program members contributing 64 per cent of all sales in the quarter. “These initiatives support customer retention and deliver higher, more frequent average orders,” she continued.

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One in 10: How retailers can navigate the looming threat of “returns fraud”

Inside Retail

Returns present a complex challenge for retailers of all sizes, not only contributing to their carbon footprint, but also eroding their profit due to the cost of managing and paying for reverse logistics and, in some cases, leading to fraud. Meanwhile, the use of returns by customers continues to grow in popularity.

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How to Prepare for Holiday Returns

Independent Retailer

Consumers are returning more purchases than ever, especially with the growing convenience of online orders, but it is becoming an increasingly expensive problem for retailers. Last year alone, retailers lost $218 billion to ecommerce returns. Shoppers Already Expecting to Return Gifts. Shoppers Already Expecting to Return Gifts.

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Adore Beauty credits customer loyalty for strong sales growth

Inside Retail

Pureplay online cosmetics retailer Adore Beauty says returning customers contributed 70 per cent of sales coupled with a higher than average spend last year. Company CEO Tennealle O’Shannessy said the higher proportion of returning customers highlights the future potential for the brand’s business. EBITA was $5.3

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How Retail Returns Influence Customer Retention

Retail TouchPoints

It’s meant to be quite simple for a shopper, but as an ecommerce retailer, you know it’s not that easy — especially if the customer changes their mind and wants to return said magical shipment back to your shop. What happens next, by way of return experience, most certainly impacts whether they will purchase from your business again.