average of $33 for a $50 gift. when a consumer takes advantage of freeshiping, that cost, which is not free, has to be born somewhere, and the only somewhere in the retail setting is in the price of the goods. reporter: the price also extending to the environment. returns produce an estimated 5 billion pounds of waste in 2020. afternoon the returns you make don t make it to the original store shelf but end up in a warehouse like this where they re resold to third parties. reporter: companies processing the unwanted items for some of the nation s largest retailers, now bracing for what they re calling a tsunami of returns. the continued shift for folks for buying online is going to result in some increases in customer returns. reporter: items bought online two times as often as in-store
eight we made from new york to florida? yes, sorry. that s what i meant to say. new york to florida. it s not because they want to be gillian: is not just because of the palm trees? that s what i want to move to florida. [laughs] james, we ve got to leave it there, but thanks for being with us. thanks, gillian. mike: meanwhile, the christmas travel nightmare at america s airports stretching into a fourth day of chaos with another 800 domestic flights canceled so far. airlines blame the mess on staff shortages due to the omicron variant, the vaccine mandates, and heavy winter weather, especially in the pacific northwest. so lots of travel stress. bring your mask, don t touch anything, hope the flight crew made it, and hope that your plane is there and not snowed in somewhere else. gillian: fortunately for you and i, mike, we get to work all holiday long, so we get to sit here and talk about how terrible it is out there, but we don t have to actually confront it. mike: in o
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purchases, adding to the flood of returns in this season of giving back. with so much online shopping, it s easy to make a mistake on style and size, not that i know anything about that. still ahead s there a path forward on build back better? congresswoman debbie dingell weighs in on that. before we go to break, this date in history, the endangered species act was signed into law. it remains the most supported and most controversial law. the success is not the number of species you list, but, in fact, how many species you prevent from declining. t from dg for my phlegmy cough. what about rob s dry cough? works on that too, and lasts 12 hours. 12 hours?! who studies that long? mucinex dm relieves wet and dry coughs. don t touch anything.
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