Our survey revealed that product return rates over the past three to five years have increased for more than half of retailers (57 percent) and nearly half (43 percent) of manufacturers surveyed.
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In addition to its regular return policy it also has has 30 different product-specific return policies.
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In the chart (see above) we display the return profile for a product like the Merrill note: a three-times return in the 0%-to-6% range, a flat 18% return if the market does better than 6% and a full participation in losses if the market goes down.
It urged consumers not to eat them, but to return the product to the store.
Or that Herbalife allows distributors to return unsold product for up to a year, and that returns have accounted for less than 0.5% of sales in recent years.
Others have a no-exchange policy or demand that you return the product to one of their stores - a little tricky if they are thousands of kilomet ers away.
"I had to return this product because it is only for bananas that curve to the right and I can only find bananas that curve to the left, " a one-star reviewer complained.
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We believe the rule will effectively block the return of risky product features and inadequate documentation.
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However, it appears that the Executive branch is looking at ways to not only reduce costs but also return a better product to society.
Members of barter clubs receive Local Alternative Units, or TEMs for their Greek acronym, in return for some product or service rendered to another member of the closed community.
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And although such a fragmentation and disintegration of the value chain offers corporations a number of well publicized advantages, it has an unintended consequence: It makes entry of new competitors to the industry easier, intensifying competition, shortening product cycles, and squeezing return on invested capital.
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Because there is no principal protection and the notes have maturities past 12 months, all the return on the Merrill Lynch product is capital gain.
Work-product protection is more clear-cut after your return is filed.
Alexa Knight, of the research and strategy firm The Sound says: The return is reinforcement of brand values or product attributes through alignment with an event that truly mirrors those values or attributes.
The fragile unity achieved at last weekend's meeting was the product of an undertaking to moderates that, in return for supporting the budget, they would get a pension reform early in the new year.
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They realize that in return for the privilege of selling a medical product to the public industry bears a responsibility to ensure that all data concerning the risks and benefits of that product are available.
The company has been a featured Google Shopping partner and deploys technology to help merchants maximize sales and Return On Ad Spend (ROAS) with Product Listing Ads (PLAs), which has become an increasingly important channel for merchants.
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Their drive for success will produce the return on investment, the job security and the product benefits that are the shared interests of all interested parties.
Basic legal and regulatory compliance issues start the minute you buy or rent a building, hire your first employee, borrow money from a bank, manufacture a product or deliver a service, and seek to deliver a return to investors.
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The growing pressure to deliver a financial return to investors has led to a rapid growth in product placement, almost unheard of only a few years ago.
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Consumers can also return the Blu-ray to the stores where they purchased the product to receive a replacement.
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Mr Schultz, who earlier this year returned to the helm of the company he built into a global giant, deserves credit for trying to return Starbucks to its old approach to innovation, which was all about incremental product variation around a central platform.
Only when demand starts to grow and some of those users start to pay for the product can the entrepreneur make a case that the start-up will earn investors an attractive return.
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If you go for a variable rate mini-cash Isa you should bear in mind that some product providers have been know to offer a very attractive rate to tempt new customers but then reduce the return at a later date.
From its initial search product, the company has continually innovated to improve the quality of search results (preventing multiple searches), return those results in fewer milliseconds and then auto-complete as you type to shave off still more.
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