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Retailers are ditching free online returns

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Retailers including Abercrombie & Fitch, Anthropologie, H&M, J.Crew and Zara now charge customers stocking fees for returned merchandise. Americans returned 47 percent of the items they ordered online this year, according to parcelLab.

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