B
Evidence Grade B
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20%
20% -- product return rate for Amazon (2018)
Between 20% and 30% of products purchased on Amazon are returned by customers.
- Source cites an estimated range of 20-30%
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20%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2018
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Back-Track
Primary
Tier C
https://back-track.com/amazon-warehouses-trash-millions-of-unsold-products/ ↗
Source Article
Amazon Warehouses Trash Millions of Unsold Items - Revealed!
Amazon Unsold Items and Customer Returns
What does Amazon do with unsold items, customer returns or surplus inventory? Sometimes, they simply destroy or discard it into landfills, by the truckloads. That’s right, new TV’s, unopened toys, baby diapers, kitchen equipment and other electronics, never s…
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Back-Track
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Methodology
Range 20-30%; midpoint extracted
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Industrymarketing
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Amazon: 20% product return rate. Source: Back-Track (2018). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/amazon-product-return-rate-2018
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