Given the tight labor market and climbing ecommerce order volumes, planning ahead has never been more fundamental. Like any fulfillment center function, your returns process can impact employee retention. Here’s how you can make your organization more attractive for current and future employees.
With returns such a huge piece of the ecommerce experience, FedEx is making it easier by adding return services at thousands of Walgreens stores nationwide next month in a partnership expansion. FedEx’s returns technology, launched in 2018, allows returned items to be dropped off, inspected, packed and in some cases processed.
While shoppers love free ecommmerce returns, they can be a logistical and financial nightmare for retailers, forcing them to rethink processes to offset pre- and post-return losses. This is causing more companies to seek technology solutions for reverse logistics as well as auction marketplaces for disposition of goods.
How you handle returns goes a long way toward defining how customers perceive your brand and how loyal they will be. So what are some of the key elements that make up a great returns experience? See why Nordstrom won the 2016 Excellence in Customer Experience award in this important category.
A new CBRE report has found that rapid growth in ecommerce returns is creating future demand for new or expanded facilities to handle reverse logistics. Find out how this trend is expected to play out and what the implications are for operations and fulfillment.
Returns processing is an extremely important part of the customer experience and the overall omnichannel shopping journey, yet it is often glossed over.
StellaService finds returns processing times are shrinking, especially during the holidays, as more retailers make it a focus of the customer experience.