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The Nice List: 5 Ways To Boost Holiday Profits and Prevent Losses
Don’t let fraudulent returns hurt your retail holiday season. Learn 5 AI-powered strategies to boost retail holiday sales while preventing retail loss.
On Santa’s Naughty List: 6 Common Forms of Fraudulent Holiday Returns
Learn how to prevent fraudulent returns this holiday season (like keep it return fraud) & protect your retail business from cross-retailer return scams.
’Tis the Season for Employee Coaching: Navigating Holiday Fraud Risks
Discover how to increase retail holiday sales and prevent holiday retail loss through effective employee coaching and training this holiday season.
The Importance of Privacy Compliance in Data-Driven Retail
Discover how retailers leverage innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) and fraud detection tools while navigating privacy laws like the CCPA.
Safeguarding Retailers: Ecommerce Fraud Prevention Best Practices
Protect your retail business from ecommerce fraud with our ecommerce fraud prevention best practices. Learn what ecommerce fraud is and how to prevent it.
The True Power of Retail Return Rates
By adopting a customer-centric returns approach, leveraging technology, and building trust, retailers can unlock the true potential of retail return rates and retail return rate.
The Future of Retail: Unlocking Success with Artificial Intelligence
AI in the retail industry is presenting exciting opportunities for retailers willing to embrace its potential. Learn about AI in the retail industry.
How to Prevent Return Fraud: 8 Common Types
Learn how to prevent common types of return fraud with these 8 different types of return fraud, including return abuse and types of return fraud.
How AI-Driven Authorizations Reduce Losses and Boost Profitability
AI-driven authorizations can help reduce losses by analyzing data, detecting fraud, and giving personalized incentives to customer/retail claims and appeasements.
More from the Blog
Omnichannel Returns Index Can Help You Improve Your Returns Management
Ecommerce and omnichannel retailers should study retail returns strategy against industry benchmarks to determine areas in need of improvement.
Mastering Retail Omnichannel Returns: Insights from Leading Experts
Discover the 2023 Omnichannel Returns Index and how retailers are excelling in managing multichannel returns with advanced digital capabilities.
What’s Your Purchase-After-Return Metric?
Purchase-after-return can drive retail growth and increase retail margins. Retailers can create personalized incentive programs using advanced analytics.
Emily the Criminal May Be Fiction, But the Prevalence of ORC Isn’t
Retailers are using AI to fight back against organized retail crime (ORC). Learn the future of fraud detection and the tools available to help retailers.
Building a Recognition Engine to Keep Top Talent
Celebrating current success and providing training for forward-looking skills helps associates feel supported and valued, encouraging them to stay with the company longer.
Claims and Appeasements Abuse/Fraud: Bigger than Chargebacks?
Claims have always been regarded as a cost of doing business for retailers, but our research estimates that 10 percent of claims are fraudulent.
5 Tips for Coaching Front-Line Workers
Your company can make supportive coaching more manageable and effective using Appriss® Secure Coach.
Sustaining Profitability and the Environment: A Retail Necessity
The next crises for the retail industry could very well be profitability and sustainability and the delicate balance of trading one off against the other.
Keep-It Returns: 4 Risks and How to Mitigate Them
A returnless refund—refunding or replacing a consumer’s purchase without requiring that the item be returned—is gaining popularity.
Will BOPIS and BORIS Replace Delivery?
Rethinking which items in your online inventory you make available for home delivery versus BOPIS could increase omnichannel profitability.