Sylvia Ng is CEO of ReturnBear, a platform for e-commerce reverse logistics, making returns better for brands, customers and the planet. As soon as fall hits, I’m already thinking about the holidays.

The holiday shopping season is in full swing, with Christmas just 19 days away. All that shopping also means that retailers will deal with returned merchandise. This is part one of a two-part story on ...

Returned items cost U.S. companies $816 billion in 2022 and added 9.5 billion lb. of waste to landfills. Small fleets and owner-operators can pick up more freight during downtimes by helping retailers ...

This is an excerpt of the original article. It was written for the January-February 2024 edition of Supply Chain Management Review. The full article is available to current subscribers. Back in 2019, ...

The unpredictable swings of the current economy are adding to what is an unquestionably tumultuous moment for retail. The industry facies uncertainty around what cargo will move in and out of the U.S.

Victoria Kickham, Senior Editor, started her career as a newspaper reporter in the Boston area before moving into B2B journalism. She has covered manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain issues ...

The National Retail Federation on Thursday announced that it acquired the Reverse Logistics Association, a global trade group for the returns and reverse industry. "NRF has a long history of convening ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / September 24, 2025 / Over 1,500 miles from the Kingsburg CEC, in Texas, sustainability takes shape in the form of used phones being given a second life. T-Mobile's ...

When you order a pair of sweatpants online and don’t want to keep them, a colossal, mostly opaque system of labor and machinery creaks into motion to find them a new place in the world. From the ...

Reverse automation describes how technology is creating new human-centered jobs in the spaces where machines fall short, reshaping education, leadership, and opportunity.

The MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas will serve as the host for the 2009 Reverse Logistics Conference and Expo. The event takes place from Tuesday, February 3 through Thursday, February 5.