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How to transform returns from a costly headache into a profit centre

Inside Retail

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. Merchants need to anticipate their customers’ expectations – offering options for pickup, drop off, boxless labeless returns – and identify ways to consolidate and reduce costs.”

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How to transform returns from a costly headache into a profit centre

Inside Retail

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. Merchants need to anticipate their customers’ expectations – offering options for pickup, drop off, boxless labeless returns – and identify ways to consolidate and reduce costs.”

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H&M opens up donations at checkout to support vaccinating kids worldwide

Inside Retail

The Australian arm of fast-fashion brand H&M is launching an initiative today to help vaccinate children against preventable diseases by partnering with UNICEF. The partnership relies on the launch of Adyen’s ‘Giving’ platform, which allows merchants to accept charitable donations during an online checkout process.

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How Airrobe makes it easy for fashion brands to enter the circular economy

Inside Retail

So when they’re shopping on the retailer’s website, we allow them to add the item to Airrobe which saves all that information, and when they’ve worn and loved it, in one click, they can then relist it either for sale or rent or to be recycled. The reality with fast fashion is it’s achievable.

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process. Brands can include a number of features in a 2D barcode that can help improve and ease access to customer service. alongside a large QR code. A true win-win!

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Forever 21: 4 Reasons it Failed & Filed for Bankruptcy

Indigo 9 Digital

New ultra fast fashion competitors like ASOS and Boohoo entered the market and did what Forever 21 did but better. Not only are these retailers fast to market with their trendy designs they are also skilled eCommerce operators. In the 2000s the internet met fast fashion, and a slew of new competitors began to emerge.

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How Enabling Crypto Currency can Up Level your Fashion Business

I Love Fashion

Blockchain: A shared and decentralized database that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a network, guaranteeing nobody can modify the history of the token’s ownership. NFTs have taken the fashion industry by storm lately. Brands are taking note, too. Source: The Hundreds. Image source: Adidas.

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