{"id":46378,"date":"2017-10-09T04:57:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T04:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=46378"},"modified":"2017-10-09T04:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T04:59:58","slug":"walmart-will-let-you-jump-the-returns-line-with-its-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/internet\/walmart-will-let-you-jump-the-returns-line-with-its-app.html","title":{"rendered":"Walmart will let you jump the returns line \u2014 with its app"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Walmart will let you jump the returns line \u2014 with its app<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Walmart will let you jump the returns line \u2014 with its app:- Returning items you buy online or in a store is way too often a hassle. Walmart claims to have reinvented the returns drill to such a degree that it may even make it \u201ca little enjoyable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">While that may be a stretch, starting next month, the retailer plans to launch an initiative it calls Mobile Express Returns, a promise to let you use the Walmart mobile app to speed up and simplify returns on products purchased in Walmart stores and at Walmart.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Here\u2019s how it is supposed to work. You select the item or items you want to return in the Walmart app on your phone and follow the prompts inside the app, indicating, for example, the reason for the return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Later, in a Walmart store, you\u2019ll be able to fast track the return at customer service by jumping to a special Mobile Express Lane set up for this purpose. You scan the QR code for your return that was generated through the app and hand the item you&#8217;re returning to an associate in the store.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Walmart says refunds will be credited as soon as the next day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">The new returns process starts in November for products purchased and shipped online from Walmart.com. It will be extended to store purchases in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">The retailer says 90% of Americans live within ten miles of a Walmart store, of which there are more than 4,700.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">But you may not even have to physically visit a store. As soon as December, Walmart also plans to give customers the option on certain items to request a refund without having to go to a Walmart. Eligible products might include shampoos or perhaps lipstick you discover is the wrong shade once you\u2019ve tried it at home. Walmart says you\u2019ll be able to discard or donate such items.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">In a press release, Walmart senior vice president Daniel Eckert, says, \u201cWe know that returning an item and waiting for a refund, especially for a product purchased online, isn\u2019t always seamless, so we\u2019ve completely transformed the process for our customers \u2013 whether they are shopping in stores or at Walmart.com.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">For its part, rival Amazon recently made it easier for customers in Chicago and Los Angeles to return eligible items by bringing them to select Kohl\u2019s stores in those cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/internet\/walmart-will-let-you-jump-the-returns-line-with-its-app.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart will let you jump the returns line \u2014 with its app Walmart will let you jump the returns line \u2014 with its app:- Returning items you buy online or in a store is way too often a hassle. Walmart claims to have reinvented the returns drill to such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":46386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973],"tags":[72507,72509,72512,72510,72511,72508],"class_list":["post-46378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-mobile-express-returns","tag-special-mobile-express-lane","tag-walmart-customer-service","tag-walmart-senior-vice-president","tag-walmart-stores","tag-walmart-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}