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Harnessing the Potential of Returnless Refunds to Improve Profitability and Customer Experience

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This is just one example of how companies are utilizing technology innovations to prevent returns up front. Processing an individual return sometimes exceeds an item’s value, leading some companies to deem all items priced up to a certain dollar amount as eligible. Of course, no good deed goes unpunished.

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Retailers Increasingly Turning to Third-Party Resources to Handle Fulfillment

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Store-based fulfillment of customer orders got an enormous boost during the COVID pandemic, when both curbside pickup and delivery offerings became survival tactics for so many retailers. Each of these companies announced new retail partnerships last year, many outside the “home turf” of the grocery vertical.

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Product Substitution: How Savvy Retailers and Manufacturers can Build Supply Chain Resiliency, Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Experiences

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The letdown customers experience when their orders don’t arrive on time, or at all, results in uncertainty and distrust that’s difficult — if not impossible — to remedy. Retailers can expect that customers will turn to other vendors; once this happens, they’ve lost both the sale and the customer’s trust and loyalty.

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Has Amazon Marketplace Become a ‘Company Town’?

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One of the most interesting things I learned was that in the 19 th and early 20 th centuries, some companies built what came to be known as “company towns,” owning not just the houses where their workers lived but the “Company Store” that they shopped at, as well as other essential services.

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How Automation Transforms the Post-Purchase Customer Experience

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To scale the business without sacrificing convenience, companies should consider automation services, such as LateShipment.com. The benefits of automation are clear for the business as a whole, and automation can also transform the customer experience even when the customer isn’t directly involved. Fulfillment.

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Ingka Group’s Ikea Stores to Adopt Fulfillment and Store Operations Solution

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Inkga Group, owner and operator of 482 Ikea stores and ecommerce in 31 countries, will adopt a solution from Made4net to power fulfillment centers and store operations worldwide. Our goal is to become leaders of life at home, serving more people in an omnichannel reality, whenever and however customers choose to meet us.”

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VF Corp. Data Breach Hinders Order Fulfillment During Critical Holiday Period

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13 that has affected its ability to fulfill orders on time — a major challenge at any time, but one that’s particularly fraught so close to the Christmas holidays. The company, owner of such brands as Vans, The North Face, Dickies and Timberland , revealed the incident and detailed the steps it was taking to address it in a Dec.