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APRIL 30, 2025 |
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Which club retailer is offering real-world membership deals on gaming platform Roblox? |
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A) Sam’s Club B) BJ’s Wholesale Club C) Costco |
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TOP STORY |
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New tariffs will create ripple effects across retail—and returns will be no exception. |
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With US retail returns predicted to exceed $1 trillion this year, according to a December 2024 EMARKETER forecast, the pressure is on retailers to adapt.
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“We’re seeing massive planning and anticipation, especially among retailers fulfilling product from offshore,” said Robert Johnson, executive vice president of business development at ReturnPro. “Retailers have to pay for every unit entering the country and on the return side, they don’t want to deal with one more cost.” |
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Here’s how tariffs could impact returns and what retailers can do to prepare. |
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IN THE NEWS |
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Amazon was sharply rebuked by the White House following a report that it was considering displaying the cost of tariffs next to the price of products sold on its site. |
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the move “a hostile and political act.”
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The retailer later downplayed the initiative, with a representative saying that while it had contemplated showing the cost of tariffs for items sold on its Haul marketplace, the initiative “was never approved and is not going to happen.” |
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Our view: While shoppers expect tariffs to raise prices, how brands communicate those increases matters. Transparency is generally the best policy, though it can be hard to maintain amid considerable uncertainty. |
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ANALYSIS |
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Women's sports viewership continues its upward trajectory with the NCAA women's basketball championship game drawing over 8 million viewers and peaking at 9.8 million, per ESPN ratings. While that figure is down over 2024’s 18.5 million, it represents a longer trend of sustained growth in women’s sports viewership. This phenomenon can no longer be attributed to one single star athlete—Caitlin Clark—but to an overall increase in women’s sports popularity. |
"There is still so much growth available for women's collegiate ball and professional [ball]," said Charlene Polite Corley, vice president of inclusive insights at Nielsen, on an episode of “ Behind the Numbers.” |
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