Macy’s, which claimed Tuesday it was shutting shops via March 31, stated in an e-mail that it is expanding its return plan by 30 days. Gap said it was extending its return home window to July 1 for all acquisitions during the very first three months of the year, while J. Crew, which is shutting stores up until March 28, claimed it is expanding its return home window from 30 to 60 days for orders positioned starting March 1.

Other retailers that remained open claimed they had actually not yet made modifications to their return plans. House Depot claimed Wednesday the store had not yet modified its 90-day return policy (one year if purchased with a store credit card) and does not currently allow store acquisitions to be returned by mail. “Of training course, this is a really fluid circumstance that we’re watching carefully,” a spokeswoman, Sara Gorman, claimed in an email.

Analysts claim merchants have actually been so taken in by the prompt inquiries regarding whether to shut stores and also what to do about workers that they might not yet have concentrated on problems such as returns.

“I do not think they’ve gotten around to it yet,” stated Neil Stern, a retail specialist with McMillanDoolittle.

While many merchants perfectly enable returns to shops for purchases made online, the reverse is not constantly real when it comes to mailing in returns of things gotten in shops, claimed Sucharita Kodali, a retail expert at Forrester.

“Store systems are not always fixed up with on-line systems,” claimed Kodali, who said more retailers prolonging their return plans is “inevitable.”

Others, she stated, might come up with hand-operated workarounds, such as a skeletal system team of per hour employees in closed physical shops processing returns after fulfilling private consumers at the door. “It may come down to behavior like that,” she stated.