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Explore the intricate landscape of retail fraud prevention and profit protection in this whitepaper, with nuanced insights into consumer behavior and effective fraud prevention strategies.

Navigating the Nuances: Understanding Consumer Behavior for Effective Fraud Prevention and Profit Protection

Explore the intricate landscape of retail fraud prevention and profit protection in this whitepaper, with nuanced insights into consumer behavior and effective fraud prevention strategies. Read More

Your rule-based return policy may be hurting your best customers. In this white paper, "Why Rule-Based Return Policies are Hurting Your Bottom Line," learn how adopting AI-driven return authorization effectively tackles return-related challenges, enhances customer loyalty, and strengthens brand reputation.

Why a Rule-Based Return Policy Hurts Your Best Customers and Bottom Line

Rule-based return policies are hurting your best customers. Learn how adopting AI-driven return authorization effectively tackles return-related challenges, enhances customer loyalty, and strengthens brand reputation. Read more. Read More

Female online shopper calls retailer about an order claim. Ecommerce fraud prevention using AI can help weed out fraudulent store claims and fraudulent retail appeasements such as did not arrive fraud and item not received fraud without impacting your best customers. Retailers rely on Appriss Retail for their ecommerce fraud detection and ecommerce fraud prevention with Appriss Engage.

Order Claims and Appeasements: A Growing Source of Ecommerce Fraud

Claims and appeasements fraud, a.k.a. refund fraud, can be as costly as chargebacks for some retailers. Learn how you can protect your profits. Read More

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AI-Driven Alternatives to Blanket Returns Policies: New Ways to Maximize Profitability

Don’t estrange shoppers with blanket return policies and return fees. Find viable alternatives that protect profits and elevate your CX. Read More

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The Route to Return an Online Purchase

Is your ecommerce return process strengthening or harming your CX? A secret shopper study of 55 omnichannel retailers may surprise you. Read More

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Analytics That Can Help You Save on Ecommerce Returns

When it comes to ecommerce returns, categories matter. Learn where and how to start looking for your cost savings. Read More

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Dramatic Shift from In-Store to Omnichannel Shopping

This report uses Appriss Retail’s collective intelligence to shine a light on lasting changes in consumer spending habits. Read More

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Managing Omnichannel Return Risk in Real-Time

Understand the essentials for a real-time omnichannel return process that protects performance, delivers insight, and offers a seamless consumer experience. Read More

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Save Millions Directing Consumers to Return In-Store

See the data supporting the value of offering omnichannel consumers incentives to choose BORIS over shipping their returns to the retailer. Read More

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How to Protect Retail Margins Using the Science of Statistics

See how retail loss prevention and asset protection departments can identify the root causes of loss due to procedures, policies, or systemic errors, and improve profitability. Read More

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Consumer Shopping Behaviors: Online Reviews and Sentiments Analysis

See how a machine learning model can be used to predict whether an item would be “recommended” by the consumer. Read More

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Fighting Omnichannel Return Loss During the Holiday Season

Retailers fight return losses all year long, the problem worsens considerably when the holiday season arrives. What can you do? Read More

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Consumer Return Behaviors: B&M vs Omnichannel

How does consumer behavior differ between omnichannel and store-only shoppers? Which consumers deliver more value? You may be surprised. Read More

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Optimizing the Value in Return Transactions

Retailers who have recently optimized their return transactions have increased consumer conversions while reducing loss, resulting in increases of over 1-2% in net sales. Read More

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Key US Retail Segments

This research-driven white paper shows which categories were winners and which were losers in key retail segments during 2020 Read More

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TV Returns and Football’s Big Game: Where Is the Connection?

Do consumers purchase high-end TVs to watch “The Big Game” and then return them for a refund? Appriss Commerce did the research to find out. Read More

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Machine Learning and the Evolution of Exception Reporting

Learn how today’s AI evolved from rules and queries to predictive models and machine learning, helping reduce retail shrink and loss. Read More

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Controlling Shrink by Monitoring Sales Reducing Activities (SRAs)

Sales reducing activities (SRAs) indicate where retail shrink may have taken place, but they can also be used as an early indicator of future retail shrink, too. Read More

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Calculating Your Real Return Rate

Most retailers in this study underestimated their retail return rate—one by 150%. This paper explains how to calculate yours accurately. Read More

Discover six retail return fraud and returns abuse schemes as well as how to prevent them while improving the CX for other shoppers. Discover some of the common return abuse and return fraud schemes and learn how Appriss Retail can protect your profits.

Return Risk and Abuse: How to Protect Profits

Six retail return fraud schemes are detailed here along with ways to prevent them while improving the CX for other shoppers. Read More

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Improving the Consumer Experience with Returns

Here are six tips to reinvent your merchandise returns process to deliver consumer service excellence at the point-of-return. Read More