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How to Tailor Return Strategies to New Holiday Shopping Patterns

Retail TouchPoints

It might seem counterintuitive for retailers to focus on returns when they are so focused on trying to convince customers to buy products in the first place (and rightly so). However, return policies actually have a major influence on whether shoppers go through with a transaction — particularly for increasingly popular online purchases.

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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. consumers and retain repeat customers.

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IKEA Expands Car Boot Events to Promote Sustainable Shopping

365 Retail

The initiative is designed to give unwanted home furnishings, decorations, and more a new lease of life, responding to the increasing consumer demand for more sustainable and economically accessible shopping options. The post IKEA Expands Car Boot Events to Promote Sustainable Shopping appeared first on Retail News and Events.

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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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Treat Returns as a Competitive Advantage that Increases Customer Lifetime Value

Retail TouchPoints

Ecommerce returns are the new reality for retailers, but their rapid rise doesn’t have to crush conversion rates and profitability. Consider how returns are central to the customer experience and can create a competitive advantage, differentiate a brand and increase customer lifetime value. Turn Returns Upside Down.

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Aussies rate online shopping experience above in-store – ACRS

Inside Retail

As businesses recover from the disruption of the pandemic, new research shows Australians prefer the online shopping experience more than that inside bricks-and-mortar stores. We’re now seeing the return of a preference for physical stores and shoppers are moving between the offline and online worlds more seamlessly than ever before.”.

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“Use it or lose it”: How local precincts are faring amid return to the CBD

Inside Retail

There was huge momentum behind the ‘shop local’ movement over the last few years, as consumers were restricted to certain locations during Covid-19 lock-downs, and felt connected to the success and survival of local businesses. She added that we’d perhaps never see the number of workers in the CBD return to pre-pandemic levels.

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