Cost of retail returns in the U.S. 2007-2023

Published by
Martin Placek,
Feb 19, 2024
This statistic illustrates the cost of retail items returned in the United States from 2007 to 2023. In 2023, retail merchandise returned in the United States amounted to almost 744 billion U.S. dollars, a nine percent decrease from the 817 billion U.S. dollars reported the previous year.

Cost of retail merchandise returned in the United States from 2007 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars)

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Release date

December 2023

Region

United States

Survey time period

2007 to 2023

Supplementary notes

Data for 2016 was not available.
Values up to 2023 were taken from previous reports.

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