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Retail Returns: The Key to Driving Business Growth

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Retail returns occur when a customer returns the purchased items to a seller in exchange for a refund, store credit, or a similar product. Yet, in today’s omnichannel world, retail returns are key to driving business growth, thanks to their ability to enhance the customer experience, minimize losses, and preserve long-term revenue.

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Freight Cost Volatility Impacts on Inflation – An Analysis

Freightos

The sheer influx in demand, combined with the variety of supply chain stressors, also catapulted global freight to new levels of infamy (although none perhaps as famous as the Suez Canal blockage). Freight rates as a forward looking indicator of CPI. Let’s start by taking a look at global ocean freight prices. Sources: U.S.

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Energy Transition in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

More and more retailers are giving consumers choices for how they want an order delivered, and part of this is to show the environmental impact of the option that they choose. On top of that, some retailers are developing sustainability scorecards for items, allowing consumers to see hoe sustainably sourced and delivered their order is.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

According to its annual survey, the National Retail Federation (NRF) indicates that consumers plan to spend a record $7.2 The tolls that ships pay are now around eight times more expensive than normal. One source said that the strategy could be announced Tuesday. billion — or an average of $44.40

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2021 Logistics Outlook: Truckload Freight Market Forecast

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That trend also plays into an extended peak shipping season and ongoing tightened capacity in all modes. To help shippers prepare, we will examine contributing factors that will play a significant role in the 2021 truckload freight market. Consumer Spending Shifts Will Continue To Impact The Truckload Freight Market.

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The Air Freight Market with Eric Kulisch

The Logistics of Logistics

The Air Freight Market with Eric Kulisch . Eric Kulisch and Joe Lynch discuss the air freight market. Eric is the Air Cargo Editor at FreightWaves, the leading FreightIntel provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. Key Takeaways: The Air Freight Market.

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What’s going on with global supply chains: A primer for the casual consumer

Freightos

Disclaimer: This article is a zoom out for the less freight-inclined. If you have a deeper understanding of freight, you might want to check out our Freightos Baltic Index daily container index instead. Let’s talk freight. . And it’s not just ocean freight. Container shipping costs are usually shockingly low.

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