PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2017

It seems that most every industry these days is vying for millennial dollars and devotion. For an industry where millennials are projected to spend nearly $800 billion in 2017 (that’s 7 percent more on monthly food budgets than average Americans), restaurants are hankering to pull out all the stops to get millennials to order — in or out.

Millennials 125

Millennials Mobile User Experience Survey 125

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

That’s why marketers will be leveraging mobile in their holiday shopping strategies this year, with new and creative strategies that focus more on omnichannel solutions and less on generic mobile coupons. Mobile coupons are still popular, especially among millennials. For millennials, that number is 90 percent.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sales have slipped consistently and only showed slight signs of improvement last quarter, mostly driven by J.Crew’s sub-brand Madwell. Meanwhile, the brand carries a heavy debt load and has been a consistent feature on lists of once powerful brands now facing the possible risk of bankruptcy. You can’t be one price.

Millennials 128

Millennials Retail Branding Mobile 128

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sales have slipped consistently, and only showed slight signs of improvement last quarter, mostly driven by J.Crew’s sub-brand, Madewell. Meanwhile, the brand carries a heavy debt load, and has been a consistent feature on lists of once powerful brands now facing the possible risk of bankruptcy. You can’t be one price.

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Millennials Retail Mobile Branding 122

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bridge millennials’ rise is changing the retail ecosystem ahead of the 2019 holiday season, but their impacts will continue to be felt in the year ahead. Bridge millennials are consumers aged 30 to 40 whose shopping and financial preferences straddle Gen X and millennial demographics.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Sales of luxury goods in China are skyrocketing — up around 20 percent from 2016 — in its sharpest growth since 2011, as Chinese millennials seek products like handbags and cosmetics, Reuters reported. 2017 saw a global recovery of the luxury retail market due to their affinity for high-end brands.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Is there a secret sauce for merchants to capture the evolving millennial? Those are the young consumers who are not that young anymore, and moving steadily toward the peak earning years of their lives — the consumers who have high expectations and are comfortable with everything mobile. Reaching Millennials. Many Screens.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Debatably the most impactful payments innovation of recent years — and that’s saying something — BNPL is having a massive impact on retail, as evidenced by the proliferation of brands and the steady flow of venture capital to players that are defining the space. Bridge Millennials Crossing Over To BNPL. percent of bridge millennials.”

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In the long list of startup finalists competing at South by Southwest 2017 hides a brand new personal finance management app. Hip Money – a new app by Hip Pocket – adapts the millennial habit of “swiping” to help them save and pay down debt through a mobile app. Nebraska-based software Read More.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

The data on millennials’ lifetime earnings potential were already fairly grim long before the word “coronavirus” became part of everyone’s daily conversations – and before the U.S. A 2016 paper led by Stanford University Economist Raj Chetty found that millennials were in deeper economic trouble than a quick look at the U.S.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

is a rally cry that would perk the ears of many millennials, but how about “ Mastercard , assemble?”. Assemble for millennials is a toolkit that issuers, corporations and IBCUs can use to enable digital financial solutions, in this case targeting millennials, using a single-access digital prepaid product. What Millennials Want.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2017

Just as marketers started to get the hang of this newfangled “millennial” crowd, the next generation comes along to shake things up with different values, preferences and spending patterns. Some call them Generation Z, some call them post-millennials. The latter this isn’t an option for retailers and brands, however.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

However, after almost 50 years, it began to fade in the 1980s, disrupted by the emergence of store-branded credit cards. Sneakers, of course, are always popular,” and that popularity looks likely to hold well after the 2019 holiday shopping season — thanks to the preferences of younger shoppers, including millennials and Generation Z.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

They want convenient booking tools, fast payment methods and secure reservations when planning their trips, and these needs have not changed much as millennials have come of age. Millennials and younger generations are digitally minded and want to interact with brands that can answer their personal requests through online and mobile channels.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

With marketers clamoring to attract the fleeting attention of millennial and Gen Z shoppers, the older demographic (roughly between the ages of 53 and 71) is often overlooked. Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst for the NPD Group, told USA Today that advertisers are mistaken to put all their eggs in the millennial basket.

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Millennials Retail Mobile Branding 108

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Paris-based startup Leavy.co , which offers a travel app to help millennials finance their travel plans, has raised $14 million. Founded in 2017 by CEO Aziza Chaouachi, the app has been described as a “travel community and marketplace” that wants to help millennials travel for less. ” The Leavy.co by the end of this year. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

It is a $75 billion industry dominated by millennials and ripe with opportunity for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands. Circle Zero is an automated litter box that uses robotics and a mobile app to enable remote litter box cleaning. You can’t compete without a strong brand. Three out of four Americans own a pet.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 18, 2016

Acorns is bettingthat millennials will prefer “cash forward” to the old-school “cash back” rewards on their purchases. Earlier this week, the micro-investing app launched Found Money, a program that allows brands to “invest in their customers’ future” and automatically invest the cash-back rewards into customers’ Acorns accounts.

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Millennials Branding Online Innovation 236

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

This is especially true among eCommerce brands facing high levels of cart abandonment, according to Geoff Staff, vice president of retail and eCommerce for Delta Galil Premium Brands. In fact, the data has shown that the [BNPL] brands that have some maturity to them [have] actually brought in younger customers.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Mobile Cards: Make or Break? One way that banks or ambitious social media platforms will win this combat for customers is through the use of mobile credit and debit cards, with a highly configurable nature and full range of card and spend management controls to please the most vacillating of customers. Follow the Smart(phone) Crowd.

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Mobile Cards social media Survey 153

PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

That bet could complicate, in a positive way, some of the general ideas out there about the preferences of millennial consumers. The integration of such tools is designed with those millennials in mind, part of the company’s effort to gain more revenue from a new generation of drivers. Not So Much About Tech As Marketing.

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Millennials social media Marketing Branding 101

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Consumers use mobile apps throughout their drives – for directions, music or the latest traffic updates – but they can also be an opportunity for gas stations. percent – use GasBuddy’s mobile app for gas. In a June interview with PYMNTS, GasBuddy CEO Sarah McCrary explained that customers rarely shop by brand. Additionally, 4.9

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Mobile Payments Google Millennials 140

PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Last week, wireless carrier T-Mobile announced it would throw its hat into the mobile banking arena with the national rollout of T-Mobile MONEY. The mobile app offers low or no-fee checking-like services, out-of-network ATM usage fees and the ability to earn 4 percent APY on balances of up to $3,000. In fact, 72.4

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Millennials Mobile Study Branding 145

PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Brick-and-mortar is instead rapidly changing to accommodate the needs of consumers who have come to expect the same speed and convenience from purchasing through online and mobile environments. In-store experiences must be carefully calibrated to satisfy consumers who are more than familiar with online and mobile browsing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The expansion will now cover retail brands including H&M , O.N.S. He said it is important to provide “a seamless shopping experience across channels that also includes flexible, mobile payment options at checkout,” especially given the massive presence of smartphones in peoples’ lives.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Point of sale (POS) platform PredictSpring announced that it is partnering with beauty brand Deciem and is also planning to expand into new sectors following a strategic investment from Salesforce Ventures. . The technology powering PredictSpring allows for native consumer mobile apps and store associate apps.

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Customer Experience Branding Millennials Mobile 190

PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Millennials have matured financially, but many remain wary of using traditional credit to buy even routine or small-ticket items. These customers are also searching for payments that maintain flexibility across multiple channels, including mobile-optimized sites or apps. How Millennials Are Driving BNPL Growth.

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Millennials Mobile Retail Branding 130

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

70 percent | Percentage of surveyed millennials who report they send text messages at least once per day, according to the results of a recent Gallup poll. Texting, on the other hand, tends to dominate millennial communication efforts, making it a potential go-to for brands looking to reach consumers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

At every step of those physical journeys, the smart merchant should be offering mobile support, since the data shows that’s often key to getting into consumers’ good graces. Of course, with all the mobile fun in the sun, it is always worth it to keep an eye out for the hackers in the shadows , who sadly do not go on vacation for summer.

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Mobile Millennials Course National 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

It has been a busy year in the world of mobile commerce, particularly with retail apps. Merchants from grocers to quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and gas stations rolled out new ways for consumers to transact from mobile ordering to scan-and-go checkout in 2018. Apps As Mobile Ordering Tools.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2017

If millennials have commitment issues at work, it’s not because they don’t value company loyalty. Millennials want their employers to value and commit to them by offering the stability their Boomer counterparts enjoyed, including annual raises and upward career mobility. Hint: it’s not free lunch and a hip office environment.

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Millennials Study Company Branding 104

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Shoppers can start a purchase in stores by selecting the card icon in the Afterpay mobile program, which activates the Afterpay card that can be used for purchases via Google Pay or Apple Pay. Millennial and Gen Z shoppers are focusing on sustainable and ethical fashion and retail more than before.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Invest in mobility Any millennial will […]. As a result, every investment has to count, and every piece of content has to make an impact. Today we’re discussing five keys to effective financial content marketing that can help your institution get plenty of bang for its buck.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The no-interest, no-fee nature of these solutions intrigues consumers — especially the millennial and Generation Z demographics — searching for alternative payment methods that can grant them further flexibility and convenience while shopping. For example, 80 percent of customers for BNPL provider Afterpay made purchases over mobile.

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Industry Millennials Retail Mobile 167

PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

Kohl’s Corporation CEO Michelle Gass said in a fourth-quarter earnings conference call with analysts that investments in technologies such as its mobile app, and buy online, pick up in store (BOPUS), among other initiatives, are “resonating” with the company’s shoppers while bolstering traffic and sales. Rewards and Millennials.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

“We’re talking about tens of thousands of merchants who are really excited about the opportunity that Alipay provides them to tap into those wealthy and middle-class consumers, who are traveling to see the world and want to buy great brands from Europe,” said Roland Palmer, head of Europe for Alipay, according to CNBC.

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Survey Millennials Mobile Maine 189

PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

The old model of opening a retail store with merchandise as a main focus of the space may not appeal to today’s consumers – millennials in particular. The general area has an unbelievable density of upwardly mobile professional men and women,” Alexander said of Plano. This generation values experiences, not just tangible goods.

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