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Case Study | Fashion’s New Playbook for Online Returns

The e-commerce boom may have cooled but online returns rates remain high, and the costs of processing them are more expensive than ever. BoF unpacks how retailers can reduce the costs of returns and protect profit margins, while improving customers’ shopping experience to generate higher sales.
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When Amazon first introduced free two-day shipping and free returns for members of its Prime subscription service in 2005, it reset consumers’ expectations for how they shopped online. Suddenly, brands and retailers of all sizes felt compelled to allow customers to send back unwanted items free of charge, or risk losing them to the ultra-convenient “everything store.”

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