24/6/2024
E-commerce is a growing global phenomenon, and the Covid-19 pandemich as further accelerated the rush to online shopping, so much so that many consumers, even after health restrictions have ended, stopped shopping in physical shops anyway.
For retailers, this is an opportunity to expand their business on an international level with no need for excessive investment, while for customers, there are several conveniences that an online purchase brings. However, the boom in e-commerce has also led to the arising of another impacting phenomenon: Reverse Logistics, i.e. product returns for which logistics costs can often be up to twice as high as delivery costs, thus affecting a company's revenue margins.
While on the one hand, sellers are pushed to use the '"return policy" as a promotional form (most consumers are only willing to buy online if the return is free of charge), on the other hand, customers often overdo it, so much so that the figure of the “serial returner" was born, i.e. the person who buys more products than he wants to keep or more versions of the same product to evaluate them once he receives them at home and then returns them all but one.
Reverse Logistics could therefore cause a dangerous boomerang effect for retailers, since returns are more difficult and costly to handle than deliveries, which are based on many small orders each with their own time frame, and in most cases the product cannot be resold at full price or even becomes unsaleable, also causing an environmental problem.
It is essential for companies to plan effective return management to minimise product returns and predict costs, which is why they are already developing various strategies:
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