The impact of COVID-19 on managing product returns in retail
The impact of COVID-19 on managing product returns in retail
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected customers' shopping and returns behaviour and significantly aggravated the problem of high product returns rates and returns fraud. Measures for public health and safety resulted in retailers modifying their returns processes. The effects of these changes on returns management are unclear; very little is known about what retailers have experienced in terms of product returns during the pandemic. This paper addresses this research gap via a series of semi-structured interviews and a consumer survey. Our findings include a list of recommendations for retailers to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on returns and related fraud.
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9 August 2022
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Zhang, Danni, Frei, Regina, Bayer, Steffen, Senyo, PK, Wills, Gary, Gerding, Enrico and Beck, Adrian
(2022)
The impact of COVID-19 on managing product returns in retail.
In The 6th World Conference on Production and Operations Management.
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Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected customers' shopping and returns behaviour and significantly aggravated the problem of high product returns rates and returns fraud. Measures for public health and safety resulted in retailers modifying their returns processes. The effects of these changes on returns management are unclear; very little is known about what retailers have experienced in terms of product returns during the pandemic. This paper addresses this research gap via a series of semi-structured interviews and a consumer survey. Our findings include a list of recommendations for retailers to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on returns and related fraud.
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Accepted/In Press date: 4 April 2022
Published date: 9 August 2022
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