PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers are shopping more online , are increasingly interested in contactless payment methods and are showing up in stores to buy, not to browse. We see millennial and Gen Z customers absolutely shopping, and the brands that deeply understand them are growing at faster rates than they have ever grown before,” Molnar said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Millennial consumers are ready to be brand ambassadors — especially when engaging in mobile commerce with private-label debit programs. The interview with Bailey comes amid increasing focus on how millennials might change gas and convenience store payments. Millennials are ready to be engaged.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Retailers looking to engage tech-savvy millennials and Gen Z consumers are quickly doubling down on their efforts to offer more visual content and enhance the discoverability of their products and services. A survey conducted last year found that 62 percent of millennials prefer visual search over other search methods.

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PYMNTS

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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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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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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As much as a click from the Kardashians helped spread the brand awareness and jump-start his company, Molnar said, as a spending trend among young consumers set the stage for BNPL's success. The payments ecosystem, of course, is not and will not be immune to the seismic impact and aftershocks of the coronavirus. According to J.P.

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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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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. Like their love of BNPL.

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PYMNTS

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

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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Is there a secret sauce for merchants to capture the evolving millennial? One formula that offers engaging consumer experiences, and doesn’t insult the intelligence of millennials, is a combination of private-label debit and rewards or loyalty programs. Reaching Millennials. However, millennials care about more than price.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) haircare brand eSalon has seen a growth spike as the U.S. 83.1%: Share of bridge millennials who have cited the need to keep safe from the pandemic as “very” or “extremely” important. 36: Average age of bridge millennial consumers, who have established themselves as an important economic subset. $22:

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

To let shoppers discover and try out new products, payment companies are helping merchants launch augmented reality (AR) experiences within social media platforms. Pan-African payments firm Cellulant , for instance, created an AR experience in Facebook Messenger.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

From the issuer’s point of view, the best outcome is for the consumer to use the credit product and repay some of what they borrowed at the end of the month, but not all of it, so they can start making interest payments on the remaining balance. We have strict limits, and you make a payment every two weeks.

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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. Competition is thus a multilevel event for hospitality services that need to juggle payment innovations, user perks and security.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

To get a better sense of what’s coming (and to have some holiday fun), PYMNTS recently caught up with Akash Garg, CTO of Afterpay — a company that offers flexible payment terms, and essentially serves a digital layaway provider. Big Brands. After its launch in the 1930s, layaway had a long run in the U.S. Top Sellers. That’s not all.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In today’s top news, Inspire Brands is buying Dunkin’ for $11.3 Plus, Denmark’s Nets is merging with Italy’s Nexi to create one of the largest payments platforms in Europe. That Its Brands Can Run on Dunkin’. After speculations last week, private equity-backed Inspire Brands will buy Dunkin' and bring it private for $11.3

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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

Younger consumers expect instant gratification and affordable ways to obtain the goods they desire, prompting more retailers to adopt buy now, pay later (BNPL) payment services. 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

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Loyalty has come a long way in the payments realm, from the days when strict terms of rewards programs were more frustrating than enticing for consumers. That comes as digital payments are entering the mainstream, driven by technology and demographics. This all should serve as food for thought as the holidays are upon us.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Webster pointed to Main Street SMBs as “a segment of physical retail that may even have the best of all digital/physical retail options,” and noting that “Direct-to-consumer brands may find them to be an attractive outlet to capitalize on the hyperlocal shopping experiences with which consumers in those communities feel most comfortable.

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Retail Millennials Online Report 252

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Now, connected commerce and the technologies behind it are taking the comfy concept of “cocooning” to another level, as homes become digital command centers for a brand-new form of touchless, voice-driven living, where preference and loyalty are commingled and redefined. Lockdown Life, Surprisingly Connected.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever. It’s one thing for the millennial offspring of the billionaire hedge-fund scions to fall short of making a billion because they only manage to pull down $760 million a year. It’s a fact. population.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The sleep brand ’s locations are thriving, and a few more are planned for this year. 50 percent: Portion of millennial consumers who place more deliveries than they did two years ago. And in retail, Essentia is ready for its un-Casper-like closeup. All this, Today in Data. 35 percent: Approximate share of the U.S.

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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.

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Millennials Mobile User Experience Survey 125

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Offering flexible payment plans is one strategy that can make high-end items appear more attainable to consumers who may not be able to afford them at full cost upfront — and retailers are finding this method effective. In fact, 93 percent of millennial BNPL app users have not been subjected to late fees. in 2016 and moved all its U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We have brand-new data that reveals how much change is happening. People of all stripes — from millennials to baby boomers, from Generation X to the Greatest Generation — are increasingly swapping the friction of shopping in a store for the convenience of using one of the many connected devices they now own to shop and buy from instead.

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Millennials Study Payments Data 212

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform Afterpay is teaming up with retailer Gap to offer flexible spending options as the holiday shopping season gears up. Participating Gap brands include Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta. . “By We are proud to partner with Gap Inc.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Flexible in-store payment plans that can help consumers handle both everyday and big-ticket purchases are gaining popularity in the United States, where the pandemic’s economic effects are causing consumers to temper their spending. Approximately 15,000 brands already offer or plan to offer BNPL provider Afterpay ’s solution, for example.

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Payments Report Retail Millennials 181

PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2017

It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

To help merchants and promote Afterpay in-store payment services to individuals before the busy holiday shopping season, buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Afterpay and Simon have announced a national collaboration. Millennial and Gen Z shoppers are focusing on sustainable and ethical fashion and retail more than before.

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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. Here are the numbers: $1.5

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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. consumers who report their shopping, spending and payment activities over a seven-day period. consumers shop and pay — today and in the future. This group of 60 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

Afterpay, the leader in “buy now, pay later” payments, said in a press release that its second bi-annual two-day sale, Afterpay Day, will take place Aug. The company will partner with top fashion and beauty brands and retailers for the event, which offers its two million U.S. customers access to special promotions.

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