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Default Automatically merging 2 data sets that share some values

I'm guessing this is a fairly common problem. I have product return data for
each month in the year. Each sheet is similar: the 1st column is the product
name & the second column is the # of returns for that product for that month.
I would like to combine all of these sheets into a single sheet with the 1st
column being the product name & the subsequent columns being the # of returns
for each month in the year.

The problem I have is that if a product has no returns in any given month,
it is not included in that months data. The upshot is that each month's data
has a variable # of rows & the 1st column of each month's data has some of
the same values as the next month, but not all.

Example of the data I have:
Jan. Data: Feb. Data:
Name Returns Name Returns
product-a 2 product-b 3
product-c 5 product-c 4
product-d 4 product-d 2
product-f 2 product-e 6
product-g 1 product-f 1

Example of combined data I'd like to have:
Name Jan. returns Feb. returns
product-a 2 0
product-b 0 3
product-c 5 4
product-d 4 2
product-e 0 6
product-f 2 1
product-g 1 0

Any help you can provide in pointing me in the right direction for a VBA
type macro to help merge these data sets would be greatly appreciated. I'm
not even sure of the search terms to use for something like this.