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Deep Dive: Buy Now, Exercise Now, Pay Later

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Exercise can help individuals maintain both their physical and mental health, and there are myriad options available for fitness beginners and enthusiasts alike. Millennials could be the most fitness-oriented generation the world has seen, with 76 percent of them reporting that they exercise at least once a week.

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Installment Payments Push Sports-Equipment Sales Over The Finish Line

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Just 33 percent of millennials carry credit cards, for example, but this demographic and Generation Z combine to make up the largest BNPL market user base. consumers to take their exercise routines indoors. BNPL solutions are even beginning to replace traditional credit among younger consumers. Approximately 51.6

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‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Combats COVID-19 With Payment Options

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We pay a price for not exercising, but conversely, gyms and online classes aren’t free of charge. Originally designed for consumer products, BNPL terms are expanding to all manner of things, including home exercise. percent of the population exercising for 30 minutes a day at least three times a week. Don’t Sweat It.

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How To Manage Millennials

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Effectively leading millennials requires understanding the collective experiences, values and motivators that make this group “tick.” Millennials, generally defined as the demographic cohort born between 1982 and the early 2000s, will account for half of the American workforce by 2020. Be transparent. Make work feel like play.

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Connected Consumers Are Ready To Buy — Given The Right Context

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Different consumer groups do contextual commerce in their own ways, but one of the most significant segments consists of “ bridge millennials.” They also visit physical stores, giving retailers another shot at selling — though that store visit might just be an exercise in browsing before a bridge millennial makes an online purchase.

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Deep Dive: How BNPL Services Incentivize Hikers To Spend More On Gear

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Millennial and Gen Z stereotypes often revolve around being tied to smartphones or computer screens, but these consumers love the outdoors just as much as their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. Social media can show how much millennials and members of Generation Z love hiking, camping and other outdoor activities.

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How Connected Devices Are Revolutionizing How And Who We Pay

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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. To track how we will pay, watch how Bridge Millennials pay today.