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  • Retailers Need to Prepare for a “Hazardous” Holiday Returns Season
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  • Retailers Need to Prepare for a “Hazardous” Holiday Returns Season

    If you thought states were all-consumed contending with the coronavirus, think again. Even in the midst of the pandemic, environmental regulators and local governments are aggressively penalizing retailers for how they handle returns that are deemed hazardous under environmental regulations that govern the waste stream.  And the ongoing civil enforcement is costing merchants millions of dollars in settlements and fines. Millions.
    • Read more about Retailers Need to Prepare for a “Hazardous” Holiday Returns Season
  • Holiday Returns 2020: Online Shopping, Returns Higher than Ever
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  • Holiday Returns 2020: Online Shopping, Returns Higher than Ever

    Holiday shopping is always a big time for returns, but shifts in shopping habits during the COVID-19 pandemic are raising questions about what holiday returns will look like this year. Shoppers gave us some surprises on their holiday shopping and returns expectations in a recent Inmar Intelligence survey, showing significantly more people planning online gift shopping because of the pandemic.
    • Read more about Holiday Returns 2020: Online Shopping, Returns Higher than Ever
  • Four Considerations When Choosing a Reverse Logistics Provider
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  • Four Considerations When Choosing a Reverse Logistics Provider

    Managing your own product returns and reverse supply chain can be costly and labor intensive. This effort draws focus and resources away from the forward supply chain and the all-important function of getting products to your customers.
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  • Solving Returns Abuse Can Be Profitable And Cost-Effective
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  • Solving Returns Abuse Can Be Profitable And Cost-Effective

    Returns abuse is sometimes a complex riddle, but it’s far from a lost cause. More often than not, there are good, common-sense answers. Inmar has been solving return management riddles for 40 years -- we’ve seen everything and we’ve built software and processing on that experience that consistently, cost-effectively brings answers to just about any situation.
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  • The Rising Star of the 2020 Recession: The Secondary Market
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  • The Rising Star of the 2020 Recession: The Secondary Market

    The secondary market actually grows during a recession; it’s going to grow in 2020 as the rest of the economy suffers.
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  • Returns are Growing and Driving Opportunities for Resellers
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  • Returns are Growing and Driving Opportunities for Resellers

    Returns activity in the fourth quarter of 2019 broke with past trends as overall returns volume was up significantly compared to this quarter in previous years. Past analysis has found a close parallel between retail sales growth and returns growth. However, this last year-end saw returns volume grow 7% versus a roughly 4% increase in primary channel sales.  
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  • Inmar finds that more than 50% of online purchases are in a condition that qualifies them to be returned to stock, yet every year millions of e-commerce purchases returned get sent to landfills.
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  • Sending Returned Products to Landfills Echoes Mom’s Wrath

    Remember when Mom used to chide you for throwing away things that she thought were still useful? You can hear her voice echoing in your head right now, “Don’t you DARE throw that away -- someone might want it -- it’s still perfectly useful! That’s like throwing away money! What are you thinking???”
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  • The Cure for the “Holiday Hangover” from Growing Gift Returns
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  • The Cure for the “Holiday Hangover” from Growing Gift Returns

    Yes, e-commerce is generating tremendous returns volume and, yes, manufacturers must act swiftly and efficiently in order to minimize value loss for returned products. However, highly capable providers with the experience, technology and facilities available to cost effectively relieve online sellers of this burden, execute timely and efficient disposition of returned goods and ensure maximum value retention for product that does come back.
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  • EMBRACE THE NEGATIVE — CAPITALIZE ON ONLINE RETURNS
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  • Embrace the Negative — Capitalize On Online Returns

    Although the logistics burden of higher rates of e-commerce returns is not the happiest picture, the truth is that returns are neither a necessary evil nor indication of customer dissatisfaction.
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