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How Millennials Shop For Furniture With Direct-To-Consumer Brands

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Millennials value experiences over things, as the familiar digital age adage goes, but sometimes millennials do, in fact, need actual things , such as sofas, beds and tables to furnish their apartments and houses. For starters, these retailers are turning to simple web interfaces that present information in a clear way.

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Deep Dive: Keeping Up With Bridge Millennials’ Retail Impact

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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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With point-of-sale loans, PayPal eyes millennial and Gen Z shoppers

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As retailers seek to increase customer purchase volumes through point-of-sale loans, PayPal is setting itself apart from competition through its brand recognition, the speed of its underwriting process and its relationships with hundreds of millions of consumers. When [millennials and Gen […].

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The Retail Complexities Of Wooing Bridge Millennials

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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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Target Trains Its Bullseye On Millennials With ‘Smartly’ Brand

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Target is rolling out a new discount brand, dubbed Smartly, intended to appeal to millennials. The retailer noted that, for instance, fragrances were “developed in partnership with master perfumers.” And, while Target’s move made news this week, it’s not the first time that the retailer has rolled out private labels.

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Why Retailers Should Stop Focusing On Millennials

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It seems that retailers and marketers don’t. 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. Nor should they assume that millennial-focused ads will trigger boomers’ desire for perennial youth.

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Melding Digital With Physical Rescues In-Store Retailing

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From where things stand in Q4 2020 it’s not hard to imagine physical retail going extinct. Noting the ways COVID has permanently changed retailing, CNBC recently reported , “As more and more stores go dark at the mall, some major retail executives are looking to grow outside of it — a tactic they hadn’t touted so publicly before.

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