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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Dale Rogers, a business professor at Arizona State, gave a presentation with his son Zachary Rogers, a business professor at Colorado State, during which they said that winter-holiday returns in the United States are now worth more than $300 billion a year. “So The field is large and growing. That rarely happens. It’s minimal,” he said. “If

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

If President Joe Biden’s administration proceeds with the move, it could also hurt South Korean memory chip juggernauts Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Apparently, warehouses are full. he crackdown, if approved, would involve barring the shipment of U.S.