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A closed loop supply chain is a supply chain that is designed to consider the acquisition and return flows of products, reuse activities, and the distribution of the recovered products. A \"\"demand chain\"\" focuses on what the customer wants and needs, as opposed to seeing the customer as a closed box that generates some random demand. We define a \"\"closed loop demand chain\"\" as \"\"a closed loop supply chain that is designed to consider customer characteristics and the influence of its decisions on the structure of the market it is serving\"\". Our aim is to describe and analyze the operational and strategic decisions that need to be made in a closed loop demand chain. We use two examples: A product returns system and a remanufacturing system. For both cases, we solve for the optimal decisions of the firm and derive related insights. 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