Reverse Logistics news and trends

Amazon Charging New Fees on Some Returns
Amazon // April 10, 2023

Amazon customers will reportedly be charged a fee for some returns to UPS Stores. The tech giant is applying the new fee in cases in which the customer returns a product to a UPS Store when they could have returned it to a Whole Foods,...

EMEA Daily: UK Renews Crypto Hub Offering
emea // June 15, 2022

In today’s top stories from Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, the U.K. restates its wish to become a global crypto hub, while an EU official calls on Europe’s parliament to adopt new crypto trading regulations. Also, pan-African VC fund Launch Africa raises $36.3...

Reverse Logistics: Optoro Clinches $30M Series D
Investments // January 18, 2017

Two weeks into 2017 and the Investment Tracker is showing some steady motion, with total fund flows comfortably in the low triple-digit range. This past week, the tally stood at $349 million, with FinTech at almost $238 million of that. Nearly one-third of that $349...

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UPS Expands Reverse Logistics Footprint With Acquisition of Happy Returns

October 25, 2023
UPS plans to acquire Happy Returns, a software and reverse logistics company, to expand its returns footprint and enhance its digital solutions. This deal aims to address the long-standing challenges faced by both shoppers and retailers in the returns process, the companies said in a Wednesday (Oct. 25) press release. The acquisition is expected to close in the […]

Amazon Charging New Fees on Some Returns

April 10, 2023
Amazon customers will reportedly be charged a fee for some returns to UPS Stores. The tech giant is applying the new fee in cases in which the customer returns a...

Reverse Logistics: Optoro Clinches $30M Series D

January 18, 2017
Two weeks into 2017 and the Investment Tracker is showing some steady motion, with total fund flows comfortably in the low triple-digit range. This past week, the tally stood at...