Most warehouses track their returns rate. Fewer of them know if that number is actually bad. 8% sounds fine until you find out your product category benchmarks at 3%. 22% sounds alarming until you realize you're in apparel e-commerce, where that's Tuesday. So here's a rough cheat sheet. These are not magic targets — they're ballpark norms based on what the industry broadly reports, and your specific mix, channel, and customer base will move them. Use these as a starting poi