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Should Retail Worry About Millennials’ Love For Dollar Stores?

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Retailers often treat millennials with mix of attraction and disdain that mirrors the “can’t live with them, can’t live without them” way of life. Whatever their opinions, any merchant worth its salt is already targeting millennial consumers full-blast to shore up their consumer base of the future.

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Should Retail Worry About Millennials’ Love For Dollar Stores?

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Retailers often treat millennials with a mix of attraction and disdain that mirrors the “can’t live with them, can’t live without them” way of life. Whatever their opinions, any merchant worth its salt is already targeting millennial consumers to shore up their consumer base of the future.

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Retailers Give Fresh Focus to Single Consumers

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Forget millennials, that consumer segment that is blamed for the downfall of most everything while also being the target of many innovative efforts. Single consumers are a force of nature as well when it comes to retail. At least that’s the case when talking about toilet paper – specifically, the Charmin Forever Roll. Singles’ Day.

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Walmart+ And Amazon Prime Face Off As Consumers Decide Who Gets Their Business

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Today, the “membership has its privileges” mantra is at the core of the latest face-off between the two retail behemoths vying for an increasing portion of consumer spend: Walmart and Amazon. consumer seems happy to test the waters — and none more so than the coveted bridge millennials. But these results also suggest that the U.S.

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Affirm Expands Installment Payment Options To Any On, Offline Store

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With the app, Affirm users can shop at almost any retailer by creating a onetime-use virtual card instead of being limited to shops that have Affirm integrated at checkout. . Half of Affirm’s users are millennials or Gen Z, the company says.

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Big Retail Problems, Small Format Solution?

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With traditional brick-and-mortar retail facing big problems , some chains are addressing them with small solutions. Is this a viable answer to the beating that Sears’ bottom line (and that of many other one-time stalwarts of brick-and-mortar retail) have been taking in recent years? Specifically, with small(er) stores.

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Retail Bedfellows Roundup: Staples Shares Space, Affirm Finances Life Experiences

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Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. From office supplies and communal workspaces to new ways to pay for concert tickets, more barriers to siloed retail activity are falling every day to the onslaught of retail partnerships.

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