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Millionaires, Millennials And The Great Avocado Debate

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Are millennials eating too many avocados on toast for their own good? The crux of the debate is this: are first- time home sales down because, given the choice of a two car garage and a yard in the suburbs, millennials have, en masse, decided they’d rather enjoy a more richly-delicious brunch experience, week in and week out?

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Why Are Half Of Millennials Still Using Print Coupons?

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But just when the last iPods started giving way to entirely online streaming services, millennial audiophiles suddenly fell back in love with vinyl records — a music format they never even knew growing up. How curious, it seems, that a similar thing is happening between millennial shoppers and mobile and physical coupons.

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China’s Millennials Driving Mobile Payments Market

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Millennials in China make the vast majority of the mobile payments taking place, eMarketer reported on Thursday (June 16). In comparison, the U.S. Mobile device users ages 21–29 and 30–39 are leading the charge in the country’s mobile payments adoption. percent annually to reach 195.3 million users in 2016. can claim only about 37.5

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What Did You Expect? Delivering Experiences that Meet Customer Expectations (Part 1 of 3)

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In processing these signals, we inevitably make comparisons. Millennials — digital natives with arguably the greatest generational spending power — “have the lowest opinion of most industries’ digital services,” according to the same report. Expectations are formed and as new inputs are gathered, our wants and needs evolve.

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Why bank branches—and human contact—are not going away any time soon

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A breakdown of the 2016 findings by age (see Figure 2) reveals what many might regard as a surprising outcome—with millennials being by far the heaviest users of branches, tapering down to OAPs as the lightest. Figure 4: How often do you use the following for each type of service?

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Should Retail Worry About Millennials’ Love For Dollar Stores?

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Retailers often treat millennials with mix of attraction and disdain that mirrors the “can’t live with them, can’t live without them” way of life. Whatever their opinions, any merchant worth its salt is already targeting millennial consumers full-blast to shore up their consumer base of the future.

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Should Retail Worry About Millennials’ Love For Dollar Stores?

PYMNTS

Retailers often treat millennials with a mix of attraction and disdain that mirrors the “can’t live with them, can’t live without them” way of life. Whatever their opinions, any merchant worth its salt is already targeting millennial consumers to shore up their consumer base of the future.