PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

This newfound cost consciousness is reshaping the retail industry in everything from spurring the rise of fast fashion at the expense of mall “anchor stores,” to the increasing popularity of off-brands or store brands in the supermarket, to the shift in the apparel business, to off-price retail outlets over full-priced department stores.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

An endorsement from the Kardashian media empire is a big deal for any up-and-coming brand. However, for a brand like Afterpay, which launched in the U.S. The company had come a long way from its launch in 2014, when it had about 10 retailers signed on to offer Afterpay as a payment option during checkout.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

Millennial and Gen Z stereotypes often revolve around being tied to smartphones or computer screens, but these consumers love the outdoors just as much as their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. Social media can show how much millennials and members of Generation Z love hiking, camping and other outdoor activities.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

But Smith was committed, and believed that among outdoor enthusiasts — particularly millennials like himself — a digitally-native brand with a story to tell and a unique way of pursuing its core mission would have an awful lot of appeal. “My Its first offerings for consumers were backpacks. The llama was bought off of Craigslist.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

consumer seems happy to test the waters — and none more so than the coveted bridge millennials. According to PYMNTS survey data, nearly three times as many bridge millennials are Amazon Prime members as Walmart+ members. But three in 10 bridge millennials already report having both, just a month in. Those are the 47 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Driving sales this year has been good weather, which has kept foot traffic up (a challenge in 2014), though parents are increasingly looking only for value, especially millennial parents. All in, back-to-school sales rose 2 percent in July, compared with 1 percent growth in 2015 and 2014 and a 0.2

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

King and Britt launched Chime in 2014 to address that underbanked segment. As a pure-play digital bank, Chime offers as its primary product an entirely mobile/digital banking application that gives customers access to a network-branded debit card and a savings account. The brand has been popular with young professionals.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

But the brand could only guarantee that it would fill orders through the site until June. “We The news comes about four years after Weddington Way closed on another $9 million in funding, in August of 2014. Crew decided to close its wedding-dress business, Gap Inc. The investment round brought the company’s total funding to $11.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

But setting up shop on the edge of the festival and hawking blatantly branded products is a little too gauche for Coachella attendees who want to preserve the festival’s sanctity (whether it ever existed or not), which leads more than a few companies to turn to social media and the tricks of contextual commerce. Is it though?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

A number of major retail studies have shown that millennial consumers value the sustainability of brands and products when making purchases. In short, HowGood literally answers the question, “How good is blank [insert product, brand, or store location here]?” in two rounds, including a seed round back in 2014.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

And Phillips, on the eve of founding his dessert delivery on-demand business SugarMoo in 2014, had two problems to solve. Dubai’s status as a highly international city with travelers from all over the world with differing palates, he noted, plays to the brand’s strength. In a day, an average of 100 orders come in.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2016

It’s taking its Premium McWraps, the signature “healthy” item designed to keep foodie millennials from abandoning it, and 86ing it from the menu. Brands subsidiary? It’s a logical conclusion: If consumers want to eat healthy, they now know not to seek out fast food in the first place.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

A number of major retail studies have shown that millennial consumers value the sustainability, health value and organic nature of brands and products when making purchases. In the study, Acosta found that nearly 73 percent of millennials surveyed reported spending time on product researching before spending a dime.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2016

2014 and Dec. The trend toward wellness-related products is being fueled by Baby Boomers and millennials, according to NPD’s study. Millennials are a much more health-focused generation than ever before, a trend that brands and retailers seem to have caught on to and are catering to.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

On its first day (April 22, 2014), Casper learned this conventional wisdom was not right. It had to expand, as it is no longer the only player in the game, and lots of startups are racing to be the millennial generation’s “mattress in a box.” Then it quickly reset its expectations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

Fashion is largely fueling the rise in footwear sales, as many consumers, especially millennials, “prefer matching their footwear with their daily outfits,” according to the TechNavio report. For instance, during 2014, Adidas entered a 10-year sponsorship agreement with Manchester United for $1.13 billion for advertising their brand.”.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 9, 2016

Statistics are especially compelling for those trying to attract and maintain the millennial segment. As a group, millennials switch from their primary bank at a pace nearly double the average of other age groups, and they point to high fees and poor loyalty programs as the top reasons why they are dissatisfied with their banks (3).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

At a recent gathering in Las Vegas, Wenig said during a presentation that he would seek to grab 100 million new shoppers, among them the much-coveted demographic known as millennials, consumers that the newswire said might have “only a passing familiarity with eBay.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

More and more consumers, especially millennials, are opting for lab-grown diamonds over earth-mined. It allows new and existing customers to interact and evaluate the product, brand and level of service before making the purchase decision. The program is a value ad for our customers. AP: When we opened the doors to our Portland, Ore.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Millennials are taking a mobile-first approach to banking, driving that transformation. However, older populations — and even millennials — still need the services provided by bank branches. These contactless transactions decrease fraud, which is a critical service with ATM skimmer fraud up 500 percent since 2014.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

It can be both a blessing and a burden being America’s oldest (active) automobile brand. So for Buick, a brand that has produced nameplates like Roadmaster, Skylark and LeSabre, the blessing of a long life – while contemporaries like Mercury and Pontiac have long since hit the highway to heaven – is also the burden of popular perception.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

Amazon started with zero customers, zero brand awareness and a very ugly website with a clunky user experience, by today’s standards. Here’s what that sounds like , for those who’d like to take a walk down memory lane – or for the millennials reading this who have never known anything but 3G. I guess every sad story needs a bad guy.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As of the end of 2018, for instance, Google research found that 36 percent of international travelers “would likely pay more for services if a travel brand tailored its information and trip experiences to personal preferences or past behavior.” Not only that, but 57 percent of “U.S. and Europe.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

A quick glance at PYMNTS Bridge Millennials data bears out the same trend. Among older millennials entering their prime spending years, voice is an increasingly popular tool in an increasing number of categories. Convenience is what drives the shopping decisions for Bridge Millennial, followed by having the product they want to buy.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As of the end of 2018, for instance, Google research found that 36 percent of international travelers “would likely pay more for services if a travel brand tailored its information and trip experiences to personal preferences or past behavior.” Not only that, but 57 percent of “U.S. and Europe.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

Take millennial shoppers and fashion trends, for instance. The former can’t make up their minds about brands their loyal to or even what price they’re willing to pay, and the latter change faster than the seasons they nominally follow. When stereotypes collide, everyone usually ends up wrong.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Karen Webster described this scenario in 2014 as The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral. “So Yep, that’s the sound of the physical retail death spiral revving up,” Webster wrote of the singularly and visibly sluggish holiday shopping season at the mall in 2013 in early 2014. “ So that faint whooshing sound you’re hearing?”

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

The company first introduced mobile ordering capabilities in 2016 through its own branded app, an offering that was originally part of an effort to increase what the company refers to as “off-premise sales” — or, as average people are more likely to call it, “take-out.”. Appetite for App-based Dining.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The millennial path of destruction allegedly continues, with those young consumers now taking blame for the decline in the popularity of canned tuna — a product that joins a casualty list that already includes diamonds and restaurants such as Applebee’s. Before we get to that, let’s review the newest charges leveled against millennials.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

Those oil and gas industry defaults, Moody’s noted, were explicable given the ongoing slump in crude prices since mid-2014. Retail’s outlook, on the other hand – particularly for large, legacy brands like Sears – is predicted to have a bit more darkness left before its dawn. India commerce: Gets a nod and a bid from Walmart, maybe.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Messenger taps brands for beauty bots. Instagram powers digital beauty brands. Google’s search data helps brands understand beauty shopper preferences. YouTube powers beauty influencers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Amazon’s advertising space currently sells space for brand logos, photos and descriptions of products, which are basically the equivalent of static billboards. New York-based eCommerce research firm Marketplace Pulse found shoppers aren’t any more inclined to buy the Amazon brands , even when the company highlights them in search results.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Many brands are already using social media in their marketing and sales, and many are using it as an extension of their service. In Ernst & Young’s 2014 global consumer banking survey , survey respondents agreed that reputation was a “very important” factor in deciding whether or not to trust a bank. Tools that can help.

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NCR

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many brands are already using social media in their marketing and sales, and many are using it as an extension of their service. In Ernst & Young’s 2014 global consumer banking survey , survey respondents agreed that reputation was a “very important” factor in deciding whether or not to trust a bank. Tools That Can Help.

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