How Smart Packaging Technology Saves Your Margin on Returns

Returns are a fact of life in e-commerce and retail, but how you handle them can make or break your bottom line. Let’s look at the numbers from a real Slimbox customer:

For every 100 products shipped:

• 10 are returned.

• Of those 10, 6% become scrap—unsellable.

• 46% are sent to an outlet, where they fetch at most half their original value or margin.

• Only 50% can be sold as new again—but only if the packaging is perfect.

  
  

Here’s the catch: most packaging solutions can’t recreate the original box, so those products lose value. With Slimbox, you can repackage returns in original-quality boxes, maximizing the number of goods you can sell at full price.

The Slimbox Difference:

• Reduce waste by saving more returns from scrap.

• Recoup full margin on half of all returns, instead of losing out to outlet pricing.

• Improve sustainability and customer satisfaction.

Want to see how this could work for your business? Book a demo or reach out for a packaging audit.