Perils and Merits of Cross-Channel Returns
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Abstract
In this article, we study the impact of cross-channel returns on a bricks-and-clicks dual-channel retailer's overall profit, individual channel prices, and individual channel demand under two scenarios: 1) exogenous returns and 2) refund-dependent returns. Our study reveals a number of interesting results. For example, when channel substitutability is high, accepting online purchased returns in the bricks-and-mortar store is likely to drive the in-store price up, despite a drop in the offline demand due to the cannibalization effect. In general, firms should allow cross-channel returns when channel substitutability is high, return handling cost is low, and self-channel returns are not hefty. Unlike the extant literature, we also see that bricks-and-mortar returns impact a multiple-channel retailer's optimal return policy. We are also able to verify that our main findings are fairly consistent under both exogenous and refund-dependent returns scenarios.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it