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Sources and images

The return label is only the start of the bill

Sources

• Shopify: the process and costs of returns logistics
• DHL: handling and onward routes for returns

Image credits

• AI-generated mood image of boxes on warehouse shelving; not a photo of any company named.

  Editorial AI-generated mood image, made for Financieel Magazine on 16 September 2026. Not a documentary photograph.

• A cardboard shipping box as an illustration of returns handling. Photo: Glez&Glez, CC BY-SA 4.0.

  File and provenance · Glez&Glez · CC BY-SA 4.0

  Resized and converted to WebP; no changes to the content.

Financieel Magazine editorial team · 26 September 2026