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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,041 posts)
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 10:48 AM Jun 2022

Just keep your returns: Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items

I guess I'll be ordering that 75" 4K flat-screen TV now.

The supply chain crisis has retailers considering the unthinkable: instead of returning your unwanted items, just keep them.

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Just keep your returns: Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items
Some of the biggest retail chains have reported in their latest earnings calls that they have too much inventory.


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Just keep your returns: Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 OP
Amazon has already implemented this policy for certain items randr Jun 2022 #1
Yah! I rarely return things but 2x during Covid they just credited my account. Tadpole Raisin Jun 2022 #8
I just finished a remodel project, most purchases were on-line and when in2herbs Jun 2022 #2
So how did your kitchen remodel go? ret5hd Jun 2022 #4
Was more than kitchen. Converted interior hallways and doors to be ADA compliant, in2herbs Jun 2022 #11
Once again, my sense of humor is lost... ret5hd Jun 2022 #12
"Logic 101" question here... ret5hd Jun 2022 #3
Hmmm ... maybe ... lower prices? Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2022 #5
YOU are a goddamned genius Forrest Gump!!! ret5hd Jun 2022 #6
Thanks! I get that a lot ... Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2022 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2022 #9
chewy.com does this. mopinko Jun 2022 #10

Tadpole Raisin

(1,561 posts)
8. Yah! I rarely return things but 2x during Covid they just credited my account.
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 11:31 AM
Jun 2022

One item went straight into the garbage. The other thing I’m still trying to fix but the trash barrel is calling.

in2herbs

(3,140 posts)
2. I just finished a remodel project, most purchases were on-line and when
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 10:54 AM
Jun 2022

they arrived damaged I was told to just keep it and they'll issue credit -- this included things from curtain rods to toilets.

in2herbs

(3,140 posts)
11. Was more than kitchen. Converted interior hallways and doors to be ADA compliant,
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 02:34 PM
Jun 2022

removed tub and installed a tiled shower ADA compliant, installed a 21 inch ADA compliant toilet, etc.

I don't need any of this right now but I did it now in case someday I do.

Fired 3 contractors, the fourth one, who did an excellent job, even got the money back I'd paid to the first contractor. I used that $$ to buy a grand piano!

All in all it took almost a year but now that it's over it was worth it.

ret5hd

(21,320 posts)
12. Once again, my sense of humor is lost...
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 02:37 PM
Jun 2022

on people like you!!!

If ya’ll aren’t careful, I’m gonna stop posting my humor…and then you will all be sorry!

ret5hd

(21,320 posts)
3. "Logic 101" question here...
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 11:02 AM
Jun 2022

So, the problem as stated is:

“Some of the biggest retail chains have reported in their latest earnings calls that they have too much inventory.”

Economics 101 gives us the “law of supply and demand”.

Yet, the nightly news tells us we are being ravaged with inflation.

Somewhere, rattling around in this empty head of mine is a solution to this conundrum…it’s not quite getting fully into my pea-sized brain though. Maybe someone here can recommend something that would both a) reduce the retailers inventory AND b) reduce inflation.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
5. Hmmm ... maybe ... lower prices?
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 11:06 AM
Jun 2022

I often can't be arsed to return things that I felt like were really cheap.

And of course, people buy more when prices are low.

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