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New Beginnings In Retail And Digital Payments

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In brick-and-mortar retail, women’s clothing and accessories company Charming Charlie aims to have a big comeback this year, while JCPenney is beginning the new year with a post-Chapter 11 reboot, with new owners, new financing and soon a new chief executive. 2014 : The year that healthy pet food company Freshpet went public.

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Baby Boomers vs. Millennials: Which Generation Has More Entrepreneurs?

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The millennial generation is often viewed as the entitled group of youngsters that believe everyone should get a participation trophy, while baby boomers are typically seen as more of a “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” kind of generation. What makes this even worse is that millennial unemployment is an astounding 11.5

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Are Millennials Really Over Revolving Credit?

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That fundamental difference in what counts as a best-case scenario has caused millennials to turn away from revolving credit products, Afterpay Co-founder and CEO Anthony Eisen told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. That means the platform refers a substantial amount of business to the retailers with which it works. 1, 2020.

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Number Of Millennial Households Expected To Soar Over Next 10 Years

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A lot of millennials are still living at home with their parents, but as more and more of them begin moving out in the coming years, they could have a significant impact on both the housing and rental markets. So what will fuel this significant growth in new millennial households? million households in 2014, while 11.4

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Millennials Are Buying More Gift Cards Than Ever — For Themselves

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Maybe millennials really are a self-centered bunch? adults in June of this year to examine the shift in gift card consumers to prepaid and rechargeable cards issued directly from retailers. Of those surveyed, 63 percent bought these types of cards this year, compared to 61 percent in 2015 and 56 percent in 2014.

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What If Millennials Aren’t Quite As Different As Advertised

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Millennials are different — a point hammered homed in a million ways, in a million think pieces written since the generation that started to be born in 1980 started to come of age about 10 years ago. Why are millennials different? As recently as 2014, the Nielsen data was pretty clear — the millennial American dream was a 2.0

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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. By 2014, it was bigger than both Cyber Monday and Black Friday. Take Costco, for instance. Singles’ Day.

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