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Financial Benefits

Return Dollars Saved

Cost SavingsThe Retail Equation saves retailers costs annually by preventing fraudulent and abusive returns.

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Our clients consistently realize a 2% sales lift through the reduction of fraudulent and/or abusive returns and a revenue increase from intelligent, targeted incentives.

1. Quantifiable Results

Results you can bank on –

  • Reduce return fraud and abuse – reduce returns by as much as 8% with Verify-2.
  • Recover lost sales – increase sales by up to1% with Return Rewards.
  • Intelligent bouncebacks – increase sales by 1% or more with Purchase Rewards.

2. Low Risk, Fast ROI

Risk-free pricing – Our experience predicting results enables us to put all of our pricing for you at risk. Simply put, your fees for Verify-2 are based on the reduction in your returns (a guaranteed ROI), and your Return Rewards fees are based solely on new revenue generated (performance pricing). Along with termed contracts, this puts the responsibility on TRE to deliver real value to your bottom line.

Proven solutions – Tested, stable, and fully installed by many well-known retailers; you can take confidence in our impressive client list that represents over 17,000 store locations across North America.

Quick payback – You can experience business results and ROI payback sooner (weeks, not years) than almost any other IT project you undertake. TRE’s solutions are easy to install. Very little time is required by your IT staff during implementation; training is straightforward, and the rollout is quick.

Proof – Few investments routinely confirm their on-going value to you. As a software-as-a-service business model, we are constantly monitoring, reporting, refining, and validating against your return processes to ensure continued revenue impact.

3. Easy To Test

Fast, low cost pilot – Each prospective client is able to “try before you buy” through a low-cost pilot. Typical pilots are up and running in 30 days, with minimal IT involvement (2-3 days), and results are delivered within 60-90 days.

Information to take action – At the conclusion of the pilot you receive a detailed analysis of return activity, areas of exposure, and the financial ramifications you can expect from our solutions – information that allows you to make an informed decision. This report contains such compelling evidence that every retailer that pilots a TRE solution chooses to roll it out.

4. Retail Optimization Expertise

Improve the consumer experience – You know the most important step is delivering the best possible return experience for your consumers.  Our solutions ensure that you can offer the most flexible return policies, while still mitigating your risk of fraud and abuse.

Legislative support – Monitoring all the legal return signage and disclosure requirements can be time consuming, most clients rely on us to help ensure compliance and reduce risk of legal action.

Best practices – As experts in returns, we frequently consult on retail best practices. Our consumer call center reduces shopper-employee conflict at the point-of-return.

Patented technology – TRE’s solutions are innovative and very unique within the retail industry…no other vendor offers the same patented, predictive analytics-based, real-time solutions.

“Returns authorization is a simple process for our employees that increases bottom line profits and limits our exposure to fraudulent returns.”

Regional Manager

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