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The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis

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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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Target Teams Up With Dwell For ‘Modern’ Décor Collection

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The big-box retailer grew to national prominence on the idea of high-class stylings in a middle-class commerce venue, and the idea that there is a wide swath of customers out there who both consider themselves a little too discerning for Walmart and too smart to pay bust-out retail at high-line shops if they don’t have to.

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Digital Spaces As Virtual Makeup Studios, Augmented Reality Style

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To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers in the U.S. AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology.

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As Pizza Hut Struggles, QSRs Grapple With Delivery Investments

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QSR magazine and other analysts point to a direct link between delivery and the consumer experience and consumer satisfaction. In fact, QSR magazine says the disruption potential of home delivery is similar to the disruption felt when eCommerce gained critical mass in 2008.

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How Mobile Wallets Could Bring Security To Shoppers

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According to the PYMNTS Paying at the Pump Report , “Mobile apps are proving to be effective at encouraging consumers to visit a station’s C-store to buy items like soda, snacks, magazines and cigarettes.” But a smaller share – 60 percent – say the retail locations where they shop have self-checkout/unmanned kiosks as a payment option.

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Why Streaming Services Dominate Subscription Commerce

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Despite persistent focus on millennials, the study found it is Generation X who is driving streaming subscription market growth, spending nearly $8.8 That’s more than twice the spending of bridge millennials ($4.2 billion), the subset of millennial consumers between 30 and 40 years of age. Magazines account for 30.7

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Travel Curators Get Local And Personal

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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.” Narrowing them down can be a painstaking process, as consumers might check out Instagram, blogs, magazines and different booking services to piece their trips together.

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