B
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15%
15% -- product return rate for regular retail purchases (non-registry) (2025)
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15%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Vera Retail
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Tier B
https://www.verasretail.com/gift-registry-software-for-retailers/ ↗
Source Article
Why Retailers Need a Gift Registry Platform for Modern Shoppers
Gift registries are no longer just for babies and weddings. Retailers now use them for birthdays, housewarmings, baby showers, and those “just because” moments where people treat themselves. In fact, Americans spend roughly $19 billion on registry gifts every year, so it pays to capture that demand.…
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Vera Retail
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Stated as '15 percent or more' — a lower bound for typical non-registry retail return rates, used as baseline contrast to registry return rates of 1-2%
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regular retail purchases (non-registry): 15% product return rate. Source: Vera Retail (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/regular-retail-purchase-return-rate-15-percent
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