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Streamlined Business Return Policies

FedEx's Return Technology Helps Businesses Manage Returns

— July 2, 2018 — Tech
In an effort to enhance the purchasing process for merchants, FedEx has introduced a new return technology that aims to simplify the process.

While most online retailers cater their services to convenience individual shoppers, FedEX is implementing new technology to help merchants that use the FedEX service better serve its clients. The new automated technology streamlines the entire return process, helping individual businesses and corporations create company return policies and guidelines all online. In addition, this service enables a business to generate its own labels, and better manage its returns by allowing shoppers to initiate returns through the company's website.

Both personalized, streamlined and user-friendly, the new technology represents the ways in which FedEX is changing its services to cater to all who use it.
Trend Themes
1. Automated Return Technology - The introduction of automated return technology by FedEx has disrupted the business return process, streamlining the entire process for merchants and improving customer experience.
2. Company Return Policy Management - FedEx's new technology allows businesses to create and manage their own return policies online, providing them with greater control and flexibility.
3. User-friendly Return Initiations - By enabling shoppers to initiate returns through the company's website, FedEx's technology offers a more convenient and user-friendly return experience, making it easier for businesses to handle returns.
Industry Implications
1. E-commerce - The automated return technology from FedEx presents an opportunity for e-commerce companies to improve their return policies and enhance customer satisfaction.
2. Shipping and Logistics - The introduction of streamlined return technology by FedEx creates innovative solutions for shipping and logistics companies to optimize their return processes and reduce operational costs.
3. Retail - FedEx's technology for company return policy management and user-friendly return initiations can benefit retail businesses in effectively managing and improving their return procedures.
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