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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. Begin with baby steps, she advocates.

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What You Need to Know About Transforming Online Return Churn

Retail TouchPoints

For anyone who has made a purchase online, returns are part of the standard online buying process — so much so that, according to a recent U.S. Consumer Study , 85% of consumers check a company’s returns policy before even making a purchase when shopping online, and 68% of U.S. That same report identified the top aspects that U.S.

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How 99 Bikes plans to return to profit with an electric-powered push

Inside Retail

I started as general manager of Advance Traders in October 2008,” Garnsworthy added. This year, the group has closed three stores in New Zealand and in the highly competitive UK market, two closures are planned. In Australia in contrast, two new openings are planned in Pimpama, Queensland, and Perth by 2025.

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Retail’s returns challenge: How to balance customer demands and overheads

Inside Retail

Growing consumer expectations of free delivery and free returns are placing pressure on retailers who on one hand recognise customer demand, but on the other are trying to reduce their operating costs. Others might order two or three sizes of the same item and return the ones that don’t fit. “It’s

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Building Supply Chain Resilience in the Real World

Speaker: Kelly Barner - Co-Founder & Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point, LLC

Time will tell, but it is unlikely to be a return to the pre-pandemic normal. Global inflation is at record highs and the Great Resignation has given way to the Great Reshuffling, leading to uncertainty in talent markets. What will 2023 bring?

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Returns: The Hidden Opportunity for Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Returns provide brands and retailers the opportunity to delight their customers. market saw over $400B in returns in 2020. If this dollar value were a proxy for revenues, the returns channel would be the second largest global retailer behind Walmart. That is a significant amount of capital tied up in the returns channel!

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Revolutionising customer experience and returns: smart parcel locker by Smartech

Inside Retail

In the realm of online shopping, retailers often perceive returns as an unavoidable inconvenience that presents them with logistical hurdles, financial burdens, and the threat of customer dissatisfaction. For over a decade, Smartech has proudly served as the trusted supplier of parcel locker solutions for Australia Post (Auspost).