{"id":12753,"date":"2023-12-27T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/27\/landfills-and-liquidation-sales-what-happens-to-the-purchases-you-return\/"},"modified":"2023-12-27T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T11:37:41","slug":"landfills-and-liquidation-sales-what-happens-to-the-purchases-you-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/27\/landfills-and-liquidation-sales-what-happens-to-the-purchases-you-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Landfills and liquidation sales: what happens to the purchases you return?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, US consumers returned 20% of the items they ordered online, and the waste and environmental cost is high<\/p>\n<p>The gifting is done. Some were successful, others less so \u2013 the wrong color, size, redundant, too impulsive, not suitable for re-gifting. US consumers return about 20% of all online purchases and the post-holiday period is when the massive, but often unseen, returns logistics industry <em>\u2013 <\/em>the reverse supply chain<em> \u2013<\/em> goes into overdrive.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Retail Federation, US consumers returned more than $816bn worth of retail merchandise in 2022, up 7% from a record $761bn a year earlier, and more than the US defense budget.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/dec\/27\/what-happens-online-shopping-returns-waste-wardrobing-envirnoment-impact\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a5c3b70b7dbdba1fb8a7800800458ceead87d652\/120_0_3600_2160\/master\/3600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f583da958f16dd67d1f0143d7db5cbb5\" title=\"Landfills and liquidation sales: what happens to the purchases you return?\" \/>This year, US consumers returned 20% of the items they ordered online, and the waste and environmental cost is high<br \/>\nThe gifting is done. Some were successful, others less so \u2013 the wrong color, size, redundant, too impulsive, not suitable for re-gifting. US consumers return about 20% of all online purchases and the post-holiday period is when the massive, but often unseen, returns logistics industry \u2013 the reverse supply chain \u2013 goes into overdrive.<br \/>\nAccording to the National Retail Federation, US consumers returned more than $816bn worth of retail merchandise in 2022, up 7% from a record $761bn a year earlier, and more than the US defense budget. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, US consumers returned 20% of the items they ordered online, and the waste and environmental cost is high The gifting is done. Some were successful, others less so \u2013 the wrong color, size, redundant, too impulsive, not suitable for re-gifting. US consumers return about 20% of all online purchases and the post-holiday period &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/27\/landfills-and-liquidation-sales-what-happens-to-the-purchases-you-return\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Landfills and liquidation sales: what happens to the purchases you return?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}