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30% -- return rate for ecommerce sales (2022)

2022  · Chatdesk

About 30% of all eCommerce sales end in returns.

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ecommerce sales
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Chatdesk Primary Tier C
https://www.chatdesk.com/blog/8-tips-for-managing-ecommerce-returns ↗
Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2022 Channel: Deep Crawl
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8 Tips for Managing Ecommerce Returns
Back to the blog May 25, 2022 Have high return rates? Here are a few returns management tips to help your eCommerce business handle the impact. As the holiday season wears off, brands are preparing themselves for an influx of product returns. Estimates for the 2021 holiday season have suggested that…
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Compared to 9% of all purchases from brick-and-mortar stores

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ecommerce sales: 30% return rate. Source: Chatdesk (2022). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ecommerce-returns-stat-2
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