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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

Retail TouchPoints

Online shopping is now easier than ever before, enabling consumers to purchase everything from socks to a dining room table from a computer at their home to a mobile phone in an airport terminal. While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers.

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UK Product Safety Reform Looms: How Online Retailers Are Preparing

365 Retail

The UK’s appetite for buying online is the highest in Europe, with more than a quarter of retail sales now made through the internet. Online marketplaces (such as Amazon and eBay) would have duties to cooperate with enforcement authorities to provide information and take appropriate actions if products are unsafe or non-compliant.

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The Cost of Living Crisis: How Online Retailers Can Weather The Storm

Frooition

The cost of living crisis caused by rising energy costs and the subsequent squeeze on household budgets will hit online retail businesses hard this winter. Christmas 2022 is going to be challenging for many retailers. 10 Tips To Help Online Retail Businesses Survive The Cost of Living Crisis.

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Return Policy Template For a Retail Business: A Guide For Retail Business Owners

Korona

If the store has a return policy with clearly defined return or exchange terms in advance, it eliminates any confusion in the minds of customers and staff. . A return policy is not only important to better regulate exchange and return conditions, but it can also give you an edge over the competition. What is a return policy?

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Return Policy Template For a Retail Business: A Guide For Retail Business Owners

Korona

If the store has a return policy with clearly defined return or exchange terms in advance, it eliminates any confusion in the minds of customers and staff. . A return policy is not only important to better regulate exchange and return conditions, but it can also give you an edge over the competition. What is a return policy?

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FTC Suit Claims Amazon Illegally Maintains Monopoly Power

Retail TouchPoints

“Today’s suit makes clear the FTC’s focus has radically departed from its mission of protecting consumers and competition,” wrote David Sapolsky, SVP of Global Public Policy and General Counsel at Amazon. history,” said Stacy Mitchell, Co-Executive Director at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in comments provided to Retail TouchPoints.

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Attention Online Retailers: GDPR is Happening & Here’s What it Means for You

UpSellIt

This means there’s some major changes happening in the world of online retail. In short, they help keep your business accountable for adhering to standards, policies, and guidelines enforced by GDPR. Give Your Privacy Policies a Makeover. Work with What (Data) You’ve Got. The Right to Remain Anonymous.