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Amazon has changed its return policy in an effort to cut down on costs. Amazon customers used to be able to drop off returns at UPS stores free of charge, but now the world's largest online ...
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Returns are a fact of life for shoppers and retailers, and nowhere is that more true than with online shopping. Online shoppers are more than 2.5 times as likely as in-store shoppers to return ...
A return is costly for the vendor and inconvenient for the customer; any return that can be prevented benefits both parties. Returned merchandise requires management by the manufacturer after the return. The product has a second life cycle after the return. An important aspect of RMA management is learning from RMA trends to prevent further ...
In the United States, various abuses using the return process allegedly cost retailers more than $9 billion annually. [9] One common practice is the use of the system in order to "borrow" the merchandise at no charge. The customer who engages in this practice purchases the item for temporary use, then returns it when finished.
Amazon launches Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which forms a central part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), by allowing users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. The service initially includes machines (instances) available for 10 cents an hour, and is available only ...
Online-retail giant Amazon.com tackled one of the key challenges to shopping online -- the shipping costs -- when it began offering free shipping for many orders starting back in 2002, as well as ...
Amazon SimpleDB is a distributed database written in Erlang [1] by Amazon.com. It is used as a web service in concert with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon S3 and is part of Amazon Web Services. It was announced on December 13, 2007. [2] As with EC2 and S3, Amazon charges fees for SimpleDB storage, transfer, and throughput over the ...