
Retail
Fit Prediction Tools Are Quietly Reshaping the Apparel Return Rate
Sizing algorithms promise to intercept the largest single category of online returns before the parcel is ever packed, and early deployments show measurable movement.
Retail covers the delivery end of the industry: physical layout, online sizing tools, fit prediction, returns handling and the inventory choices that leave a rack permanently marked down. Coverage includes what a single return actually costs a company. Useful for readers in buying, merchandising or e-commerce.

Sizing algorithms promise to intercept the largest single category of online returns before the parcel is ever packed, and early deployments show measurable movement.

A store sells linear feet of rail long before it sells garments, and the arithmetic of density decides which racks earn their floor space.