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Empty containers and lacking components: Customers are exploiting retail return insurance policies

Editorial Board Published May 28, 2025
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ReverseLogix.com CEO Gaurav Saran on how return fraud continues to hinder operations at retailers.

Customers are more and more exploiting return insurance policies with varied scams to defraud corporations, and it’s costing retailers billions. 

Whereas retailers have tried to mitigate returns, they amounted to $743 billion in 2023. Of that, about $101 billion was fraudulent, in accordance with the Nationwide Retail Federation. 

This downside is getting extra refined as customers develop more and more duplicitous, resembling returning empty containers, utilizing faux or altered receipts or ripping key parts from electronics earlier than returning the merchandise. The problem for retailers is how one can crack down and restrict return polices with out alienating prospects. 

Blue Yonder’s 2024 Shopper Retail Returns Survey discovered that greater than 90% of respondents admitted {that a} lenient return coverage influences their shopping for selections. Moreover, stricter insurance policies are deterring many consumers, significantly Gen Z and millennials, from making purchases in any respect.

AMAZON GIVES SOME CUSTOMERS REFUNDS FOR RETURNS MADE YEARS AGO

Arun Sundaram, vp and senior fairness analyst at CFRA Analysis, instructed FOX Enterprise that return fraud stays a problem for retailers, significantly due to the “growth of e-commerce and the flexible return policies that often come with it.” 

This sort of fraud not solely places stress on margins however disrupts stock planning and drives up working prices, in accordance with Sundaram. 

(Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures/File)

“In recent years, we’ve seen many retailers ramp up investments in data and analytics to detect patterns and flag suspicious return activity. Still, striking the right balance between preventing fraud and keeping a positive customer experience is an ongoing challenge,” Sundaram added. 

Gaurav Saran, CEO of ReverseLogix.com, instructed FOX Enterprise that corporations began providing aggressive return insurance policies resembling free returns and 30- or 60-day return insurance policies as customers turned extra reliant on on-line purchasing. In flip, it inspired extra customers to purchase with the model, however it additionally paved the best way for a choose few to make the most of the state of affairs. 

RETURN FRAUD PLAGUES RETAILERS, COSTS INDUSTRY OVER $100B IN 2023

One of the widespread scams, in accordance with Saran, is “wardrobing.” Shoppers buy clothes with the intent of returning it after they use it. The problem with any such fraud is it may be tough to detect, although it is without doubt one of the most typical issues that clothes retailers have, in accordance with ReverseLogix.com’s web site. 

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An worker seals a field at an Amazon success middle. (Brent Lewin/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures/File)

In some instances, prospects will return an empty field claiming the merchandise was lacking once they acquired it. This is named the “empty box” rip-off. Retailers that don’t weigh packages earlier than processing returns might not discover the fraud till after the shopper has already been refunded, in accordance with Saran.

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One other tactic his firm has observed is named “bricking.” That is when somebody removes key parts from electronics earlier than returning the merchandise. Whereas the product appears intact on the surface, it’s ineffective. Retailers that do not verify returned objects fastidiously can find yourself promoting nugatory items.

Saran’s developed an end-to-end return administration system to mitigate these crimes by serving to corporations configure return processing and even deal with repairs. It helps corporations guarantee what a buyer mentioned they have been going to return and the situation they’re returning it in is in step with the return coverage. If there seems to be fraudulent exercise, the corporate will get notified and may alter its return coverage particular to a buyer.

He works with varied corporations, together with Brooks, Wilson and Samsonite.

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