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How Retail's $849.9 Billion Returns Channel Works, and Why the Fees Arrived
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How Retail's $849.9 Billion Returns Channel Works, and Why the Fees Arrived

Returns now run at 15.8 percent of U.S. sales and 19.3 percent online. Mail-in fees price the reverse leg, and California's textile EPR law prices what happens after it.

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