PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Afterpay has announced its in-store buy now, pay later (BNPL) service is being offered by major retailers at locations across the country. Shoppers can use Afterpay to buy items in select retail stores using their Afterpay card, a virtual, contactless card stored in their digital wallet,” the firm said in a Tuesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

According to Will Byrne, CEO of Worldnet Payments , the kiosks and smart shelves that are gaining traction across any number of commerce and retail settings may even shift the employment picture a bit. The Changing Retail Footprint. As unattended retail notches an increasing footprint, said Byrne, other use cases will also emerge.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

As Recurly Senior Vice President Emma Clark told PYMNTS in a recent conversation, that means the landscape for subscription retail players has radically shifted in recent weeks. There is a whole host of tactics that subscription retailers should make to adjust to the immediate reality of a COVID-19 world.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

How important are humans to your retail banking experience? We’ve all heard that millennials, for example, think of bank branches as a vestiges of another century with little relevance to their financial lives. That’s partly because the definition is a moving target as financial institutions (FIs) test their digital boundaries.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Convenience is key in the retail sector, especially in eCommerce, where merchants with frustrating or complicated online shopping processes can easily lose customers. Avoiding such an exodus means retailers must be flexible when developing the tools consumers use to make purchases. How Millennials Are Driving BNPL Growth.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Buy now, pay later ( BNPL ) may not be the most used payment option this holiday season, but it’s definitely the fastest-growing and most talked about, as consumers young and old are increasingly turning to the zero-interest or low-cost installment plans to spread out the cost of their purchases.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2018

Millennial is now a generational definition that encompasses both those just leaving their parents’ home and entering college, and those paying a mortgage on their house and worrying about paying for their kids’ college. 30-40 : The age range of the bridge millennial consumer group. They are the present.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Traditional banks aren’t mobile-first, and they’re definitely not customer-first. This might be a ploy to retain T-Mobile customers, but it’s also intended to appeal to consumers without any real affinity for a more traditional financial services provider, including the highly coveted millennial, as well as the unbanked and underbanked.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

We finally have a definitive answer to the mysterious, canary-yellow marketing campaign Snapchat launched earlier this year. It’s not just millennials and post-millennials using a free service any longer. It’s millennials and post-millennials (or their parents, more likely) with expendable income and a credit history.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We also learned that of those consumers familiar with news of the vaccine, just as many say they definitely won’t or likely won’t get the vaccine (38.4 percent) as those who say they definitely or very likely will (37.9 percent of consumers say they will do more shopping in physical retail or grocery stores, respectively.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

If brick-and-mortar merchants can claim anything sacred from the total encroachment of online retail on its turf, it’s the highest echelon of uber-luxurious commerce. The first pieces of evidence come from recent earnings reports from two of the biggest tentpoles in the dollar retail category: Dollar General and Dollar Tree.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The retailer combines the in-store and app experience to enhance the customer buying process. A regional bank poll of millennials found that not one could name a community institution in their area.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. Staples Will Sell You A Desk — Or Let You Share One.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

According to Shopify it has become one of the most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) payment methods, especially with millennials, and it’s also being used by over two million U.S. retailers as a direct payment option. In May, Adobe entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Magento for $1.68 billion, subject to adjustments.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2018

Though, as countless have pointed out over the last five years or so, millennials did make a valiant effort holding off that process by having their mothers do their laundry for as long as possible. These days, though, we call them Bridge Millennials. ” The Changing Buying Habits Of Millennial Parents.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

According to the data, consumers now shop for retail products from home at nearly double the rate they did a year ago, while three times as many have relocated their grocery shopping from the store to their homes. percent said they’d made a voice-assisted purchase in the past day. They own roughly six on average.).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

percent of consumers are definitely interested in getting vaccinated. percent) as those who say they definitely or very likely will (37.9 In comparison, nearly a third of millennials and bridge millennials (those born between 1979 and 1988) express the same level of interest in getting vaccinated.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Visual search has held promise for online retailers for some time, especially since offering more visual content can engage tech-savvy millennial and Gen Z consumers. That’s some of the more advanced image recognition AI that we’ll definitely bring to mobile in the future. AI for Personalization.

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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

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. billion in eCommerce revenue annually by 2022, meaning brands must bring in Gen Z and millennial shoppers. Fashion is projected to generate $712.9

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Holiday spending has changed over the past decade as digital payments began to filter into the retail world. Keeping up during this high-volume season can be difficult for retailers when shoppers have unique payment expectations. Retail is all about conversion. Cutting through the holiday buzz .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The pop-up shops will be in retail locations of the pharmacy chain in 44 states starting this Friday, and through the conclusion of December, Retail Dive reported. Last October, reports surfaced that Walgreens was partnering with Birchbox to attract millennials and increase its focus on beauty products.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

For Zalando, making zLabels independant meant that its 17 labels would now be appearing on other retail marketplaces — like ASOS, Alibaba’s Tmall and even Amazon, which is an unusual move. Instead of focusing on millennials or business shoppers, zLabels hopes to capture a wider footprint of shoppers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Millennials, the conventional wisdom goes, are far more into experiences than they are into buying things. But, he noted, in the case of millennials some of that fear is not just the same old alarm. This long-term worry is far more significant and can be summarized in one sentence: Millennials don’t want to buy stuff,” Becker said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

One-third of Gen Z members and more than one-quarter of millennials will make secondhand purchases in 2019 due to environmental concerns and cheaper prices, for example. Online marketplaces for both regular and secondhand retail are facing more competition as demand continues to grow.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Like many other big players in the physical retail space, the company is pushing hard in holiday 2016. Specifically, gaming has emerged as a new and major area this year — with big incentives for expensive consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One — and of course, what is a flashy high-definition gaming system without a 4K TV to display it on?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2 Share of U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Millennials, we’ve often been told, are a generation of renters, as opposed to buyers. But the end result is that millennials aren’t just more likely to rent their homes later into life than their Generation X or baby boomer counterparts. trillion in student debt of which they are demographically speaking the largest bearers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

The firm’s solution to the cupcake problem was hybridized desserts — saffron mousse rice pudding, kunafa cheesecake, and the company’s signature dessert, the cupookie (which, despite its appearance is definitely, “ not a cupcake ” even though it is definitely the shape of a cupcake and involves icing and cake.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

For those who carry either the branded Gap card, or the Gap Mastercard (or anyone who has ever been part of a retail rewards program), the offerings are fairly familiar. Those who travel throughout the Gap retail ecosystem, spend nearly 10 times as much as those who are more “one-and-done” shoppers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

For now, Brockway said her target market is millennials and young families who are digitally savvy, as “this is definitely a new type of intermediary in the travel space.” She added that Iceland provides a nature-focused road trip experience, and Japan offers travel in trains as well as cultural experiences. The Digital Nomad Market.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

As house prices skyrocket, student loan debt grows and wages stagnate, many Gen Zers and millennials are watching their homebuying dreams move out of reach. Younger millennials and Gen Z buyers—those born after 1980—represent 45% of the total homebuyer market. By Beth Mattson-Teig. trillion, according to the Education Data Initiative.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Millennials are also more likely to go the do-it-yourself (DIY) route than consumers from other age groups. Almost three quarters — or 73 percent — of millennials are doing DIY home improvement. Only just under three in 10 — or 27 percent — are bringing professionals on for the job.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

According to Supermarket News, Hy-Vee ranked 24 th among North American grocery retail providers in 2016. We are adapting to customers’ changing lifestyles and to meet their needs,” said Tara Deering-Hansen, group vice president of communications for Hy-Vee, when the retailer announced its new health-focused retail format in July.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Ripples were promptly sent flying into all corners of the retail universe with the launch of Amazon Home Services in March 2015, and now that both mom-and-pop hardware shops, as well as national brick-and-mortar chains have had more than a calendar year to react to the changes, a definite trend has emerged.

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Retail Trends Study Seattle 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

Millennials just aren’t wearing jeans any longer. You might notice the trend in the streets, as more and more millennials are switching up the look of traditional denim jeans for stylish (and far more comfortable) sweatpants or yoga pants from Lululemon, Nike or Under Armour.

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Study Millennials Trends Survey 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

Toys R Us vs. The Retail Death Spiral . Winner: The Retail Death Spiral. There are rumors that a consortium of toy brands may buy out and operate at least some of the retailer’s assets, but for right now, another historic brand bites the dust. Boomers vs. Millennials vs. Scammers . An F by any definition.

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