PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2016

Though it was their grandparents that gave rise to modern American consumer culture, millennials often get dinged for being too obsessed with having the latest and greatest gadgets. It’s not as if millennials are wiping their dirty hands on their ripped designer jeans, though.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

When Kohl’s decided to bring Amazon into its store locations about a year ago, many commentators wondered if the brand had made a big mistake. Gass’ hope is to help push the Kohl’s base lower, as she is looking to draw millennial customers to the brand as their new go-to location for merchandise of all kinds.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. The group’s connected commerce behaviors are well-documented in the annual PYMNTS/Visa How We Will Pay 2019 study released just today. This group of 60 million U.S.

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JULY 28, 2016

Hold on to your designer, hipster-esque trilby hat, because things are about to get a little confusing (but also this could be a major opportunity for brands to compete and “win” in a new retail space). Aspirational consumers are looking for brands to stand for something bigger than product benefits.

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JUNE 29, 2020

When Bolun Li was in high school, a local bank came in and offered a heavily branded PowerPoint presentation about financial services and money management to students who reacted pretty much the way one would expect. The startup has added a direct incentive. Do a module to earn points (pineapples). What’s Next?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Millennials have matured financially, but many remain wary of using traditional credit to buy even routine or small-ticket items. How Millennials Are Driving BNPL Growth. Verishop targets consumers aged 25 to 45, a demographic that encompasses older millennials with more disposable income and the youngest of Generation X.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

million times and led to a 60 percent increase in the brand’s followers on Snapchat. “We wanted to be really engaging and enable them to participate in our brand. One of our key principles in social media is how to be authentic and engage with our customers in a way they use the platform naturally.”.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

How do banks prepare for this new reality? Next is a digital bank, completely disassociated from the Bradesco brand. Revamping the company’s internal structure is one of the first steps Bradesco took to achieve the goal of creating experiences that meet expectations of millennials. The big questions is what’s next?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For APMs and other players – especially the traditional credit card issuers – the question remains: How to keep the consumer engaged? The Millennials Cometh. We are talking here, of course, about millennials. There’s recognition among the marquee names in payments that the landscape is shifting. There’s a wrinkle here, though.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Customers can order food from over 10 brands at the GrabKitchen, which gives restaurant partners a space to introduce different food concepts and new brands. Airbnb: How To Win The $1.4T Battle For Millennials. Millennials and Gen Z want to travel, and they’re willing to spend more to do it.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s a world that has sprung up around the spending power and tastes of millennials and Gen Zers, and it’s getting hard to keep track of all the available options. According to one Mastercard study , about one-third of millennials and Gen Zers would let a bot plan their next trip in an automated fashion using data from their travel history.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

The past several months have been largely defined in the retail world by merchants and brands making quick digital pivots to stay afloat in an environment that’s gone from “digital sometimes” to “digital mostly.”. And not necessarily just the millennials. What The Future Looks Like.

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Abrigo

APRIL 29, 2015

The score: If your online presence could use an overhaul, take action and check off the relevant boxes, ensuring that your site not only accurately reflects the work that you do, but also your firm’s brand. Generation X and Millennials increasingly supplement their online research with social media searches.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Digital has changed much of that, by giving consumers more options for how and where they shop, and certainly how and with what they pay. As Green Dot Chief Revenue Officer Brett Narlinger told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, the same holds true for banks, particularly when it comes to millennial and Gen Z consumers. “My

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Insights on Business

APRIL 28, 2017

Some of the most important elements mentioned by analysts and professionals can be divided into four models: Digital bank brands: Many established, full-service banks find it difficult to appeal to millennials. Wary of alienating existing customers, they do not want to alter their current branding.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

but after almost 50 years, it began to fade out in the 80s, disrupted by the emergence of store-branded credit cards. And if the credit options don’t appeal to consumers — and, in the case of younger consumers, even makes them actively hostile — that means they also aren’t working for the brands that offer them. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This arrangement is an interesting experiment about brand equity and supply chain consolidation,” says Jason Grunberg, SVP of marketing at CM Group , a marketing tech company. Heck, Target might eventually take over the entire brand if the deal works well.”. Can a big brand even be profitable in today’s retail environment?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Online shopping has fundamentally changed the rules of how to gauge a company’s performance around the holidays. They’re counting the proportion or number of millennials and Generation Z shoppers at a store, and counting the number of Instagram-popular fashion brands in a store.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2018

Dwyer shared how brands can start to think about doing that, and how Taylrd is already doing so as the menswear company embarks on a U.S. As retail, eCommerce and brand awareness continue their transformation, Dwyer has three best practices for merchants to keep at the forefront of their minds and strategies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

But, as the just-released PYMNTS “ Commerce Connected Playbook: Retail Innovation Edition ” indicates, the interesting thing to watch is not that digitization is happening, but how it is happening. What Every Brand Needs For An Omnichannel Experience. So why aren’t digital natives shopping digitally?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

He then asked if I would like information about how to become an Amazon Prime member so that I could take advantage of those deals. As a long-time Whole Foods customer, I know, like and trust the Whole Foods brand and the quality of the products they carry in-store. As one of the 90 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It uses the existing digital kiosk’s existing interface, so users instantly understand how to navigate using their voice. Outdoor and hiking brand Merrell thinks it can solve the problem. Its Kiehl’s brand initially started using messaging to ensure fast responses to customer queries, but it quickly saw other opportunities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It’s been an educational experience so far, Collins noted, both in terms of the data coming in and what Kitchen has learned from other brands it has met, even from its pre-opening days. No one would order a pair of shoes from Amazon and, increasingly, that is how consumers are viewing food purchases,” he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The youngest of the bridge millennials – those 30- to 40-year-olds who today represent the first generation of connected consumers with spending power – will be having their mid-life crises at the age of 50. Amazon, of course, owns Whole Foods and operates its own branded book stores and convenience stores. The year is 2039.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

They were then able to figure out how to turn those products into usable food that is healthy for pets to eat and that has functional properties as well. Bello sees his company’s target market as “millennial-minded.” Those markets tend to lean toward both millennials and pre- to empty nesters whose dogs have become their companions.

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Banking 2020

JULY 17, 2015

Articles via TheStreet, Miami Today News, The Financial Brand. World emoji day: How emoji passwords will obliterate PINs and make bank accounts safer: While a recent report found that 64% of millennials regularly community using only emoji , that doesn’t mean everyone is ready to communicate with their banks using emoji.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Figuring out how to bridge this gap may be key for lenders in the near future and may require implementing new technologies that can help cut down on the time and complexity of these loans. It is therefore important for retailers to examine how they are offering such payments to maintain customers’ attention.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 10, 2024

This article examines why the standard way to value a bank is flawed and how to have a better methodology. This brand relation is similar to customers who refer friends and family members to the bank or use their bank for gifts. If you do either of these two things, they will likely result in less value and not more.

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Banking 2020

MARCH 27, 2015

Articles via Mobile Commerce Daily, Wall Street Journal, The Financial Brand, Banking Exchange. This is a huge percentage that marketers need to pay attention to when thinking about how to attract and retain consumers. Millennials in particular are increasingly using their smartphones to pay bills. What have you been reading?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

How to meet those preferences profitably has become the focus for both commerce and financial services. And [that] opens the question around: ‘How long does it take for your relatively young customer base to catch up?’”. I think there’s a lot more to look at — and it is where brands need to start looking.”. Ranchere said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

Some entrepreneurs are inspired to start companies because of their experiences: Edgar Blazona was tired of going to dinner parties and hearing how challenging it was to order furniture. Blazona, in turn, decided to think about how to create a model that was quick and easy as well as direct-to-consumer (DTC).

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

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.” We’ve created software that lets us know exactly where our raw materials and mattress components are and how to forecast what and when to build,” Parikh said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

What brands used to guide their merchandising processes in the old paradigm requires too much manual input, hinging on data sets and models that are too general, and accruing too slowly — too much like a “fulfilling prophecy,” he noted. However, it is increasingly out of data, and out of step with modern consumer behavior and preferences.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

There are a lot of brands new and old that want to take care of the consumer’s skin. The question for Axelrod, founder of Into The Gloss, and Christiansen, a longtime Estee Lauder vet, was how to get beyond those historical limits and to offer up a more holistic take on skincare for customers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Over the years, businesses specifically focused on providing consumers with rewards and cost savings for their shopping efforts have emerged across multiple brands. For some consumers, keeping track of various loyalty programs across several brands can be a tall order. Centralizing rewards. The reason?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Rewards can help lure customers to a brand and keep them there. I think merchants and issuers alike see the value of rewards in creating a storyline for customers, enhancing the relationship with the brand and driving stronger loyalty,” he added. Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

But how to offer it as an option, can be tricky. That, Khoja told Webster, is what attracted MasterCard to Pine Labs, because it has spent more than a decade in the market adding merchants, brands/OEMs and financial services providers to its platform — making the experience for the consumer at the point of sale frictionless.

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