Pain killer: Happy Returns, Staples join forces to ease online returns

Staples to accept e-commerce returns from Happy Returns

Estimates for e-commerce return rates range from a low of about 8% to as much as 35%, depending on the source. Most experts have centered on estimates of 25% to 30% of all items purchased online being returned.

Some brands make it easier than others to process returns, but for customers, even those often rely on packing the item up, printing out a shipping label, and perhaps most worrisome, waiting sometimes days or even weeks for the brand to refund the purchase price.

Happy Returns has been...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/pain-killer-happy-returns-staples-join-forces-to-ease-online-returns

Closer to the consumer: How Levi Strauss thought about life post-pandemic

At 168 years old, Levi Strauss & Co. (NYSE: LEVI) has some knowledge about its customers. But that knowledge was put to the test in 2020 as the pandemic took hold and consumers shifted buying strategies. Liz O’Neill, executive vice president and COO of the company, said Levi had to make some tough choices to manage though the COVID-19 pandemic before it could contemplate what the future would look like.

“[It was a] healthy triage mode which was walking this balance beam where we had to balance...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/closer-to-the-consumer-how-levi-strauss-thought-about-life-post-pandemic

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