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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Millennial consumers are ready to be brand ambassadors — especially when engaging in mobile commerce with private-label debit programs. The interview with Bailey comes amid increasing focus on how millennials might change gas and convenience store payments. Millennials are ready to be engaged.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 30, 2016

” For Millennials, the cry might as well be, “I want my mobile banking.” ” About 67% of Millennials now use mobile banking, according to a study released today by the Federal Reserve. For Gen Y, the rallying cry was, “I want my MTV.”

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AUGUST 15, 2018

43 percent : That is the amount of high-income millennials who said they would be more likely to visit a gas station if its app offered them convenience, loyalty and savings. Fueling up vehicles and mobile apps seems, on the surface, like a natural, obvious pairing. Turns out most consumers are not on board with that, at least not yet.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Companies are continuously trying to meet these customers where they are, which means they must offer their full range of services via mobile — including hassle-free disbursements. The demand for mobile disbursements comes as more consumers rely on their smartphones for their financial needs. The Mobile Disbursements Landscape.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Retailers looking to engage tech-savvy millennials and Gen Z consumers are quickly doubling down on their efforts to offer more visual content and enhance the discoverability of their products and services. Instead, they can use this software to simply share an image with the retailer.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

28, which is six days later than last year — meaning retailers have a whole week less to sell during the holidays. What does this mean for retailers heading into the holiday shopping season? Mobile Makes Strides This Holiday Season. The heaviest users are millennials, members of Generation X and bridge millennials.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

The mobile revolution has hit the dining industry, and from local haunts to multinational chains, restaurants are looking to offer increasingly mobile customers new ways to pick up a quick meal. Around the Mobile Order-Ahead World . And mobile order-ahead tech is also headed for the “Happiest Place On Earth.”

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APRIL 22, 2019

Millennials have long borne the blame for a variety of problems in commerce, including the decline in popularity of diamonds and certain fast casual restaurants. Millennials could be helping to bring new life to call center commerce. That’s reportedly the case when it comes to luxury retail brand Gucci. Larger Changes.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

28, which is six days later than last year — meaning retailers have a whole week less to sell during the holidays. What does this mean for retailers heading into the holiday shopping season? Mobile Makes Strides This Holiday Season. The heaviest users are millennials, members of Generation X and bridge millennials.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The stated goal, according to new CEO Jim Brett – is for the brand to build back its audience particularly among millennial shoppers. Teaming up with another retailer is not wholly new ground – some J.Crew and Madewell items are already on sale, and a partnership with Hudson Bay has already been announced.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

This will not only help retail items be more accessible to more consumers but could help merchants bounce back from what may have been a rocky year in sales due to the pandemic. percent of millennials report being financially stable, compared to 79 percent of non-millennial consumers. In fact, only 20.7

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

Don’t count out older consumers when it comes to mobile commerce – that’s one trend going forward into the 2020s that is important as the population continues to age. That said, there seems little question that younger consumers will continue to drive most changes in mobile, including its often complex place in the retail and shopping chain.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Make that leather wallet a mobile one, wielded on smartphones. As many as 72 percent of bridge millennials say mobile apps are important for accessing bank accounts. The other three licenses would allow companies to offer corporate banking services to smaller firms and to serve non-retail customers as well.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The new year will bring a new round of one of the hottest games in the payments-and-commerce world: What Makes Millennials Tick? Among the most influential drivers of retail change is a subset of consumers PYMNTS identifies as “ Bridge Millennials.” Retail Response. And retailers are taking note. Mobile Focus.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

In June, Costco launched a revamped digital membership app that allows members to use its mobile device rather than flashing a physical card upon entry and during checkout. This can’t be interpreted as an oversight, considering a new PYMNTS report about “ everyday apps ” found that mobile users rarely make in-app payments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Millennials are a force to be reckoned with, as they are made up of approximately 90 million individuals with significant spending power: By 2030, their aggregate annual income is projected to be more than $4 trillion. The mobile game show HQ Live Trivia, already counts up to two million participants per game. Attracting Millennials.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

For example, studies show that one in every five millennials would abandon travel booking processes if their preferred payment method was not offered. Millennials are set to become a significant portion of global travelers (they already are, in fact), so it is critical for platforms to reach them in the channels where they are already.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2017

It seems that most every industry these days is vying for millennial dollars and devotion. For an industry where millennials are projected to spend nearly $800 billion in 2017 (that’s 7 percent more on monthly food budgets than average Americans), restaurants are hankering to pull out all the stops to get millennials to order — in or out.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2018

Shifting consumer habits are causing a sea change in the retail landscape. And businesses that are unprepared for this change – including gas station retailers – could risk getting drowned out by the competition that more quickly adapts to this reality. Technology is an essential element of Bridge Millennials’ shopping processes.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Is there a secret sauce for merchants to capture the evolving millennial? Those are the young consumers who are not that young anymore, and moving steadily toward the peak earning years of their lives — the consumers who have high expectations and are comfortable with everything mobile. Reaching Millennials. Many Screens.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

The data on millennials’ lifetime earnings potential were already fairly grim long before the word “coronavirus” became part of everyone’s daily conversations – and before the U.S. A 2016 paper led by Stanford University Economist Raj Chetty found that millennials were in deeper economic trouble than a quick look at the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 20, 2017

Banks are taking the battle for millennial customers where it belongs: mobile. Citibank and JPMorgan Chase users will now be able to link cards to PayPal via mobile, allowing customers of both banks to add cards before paying online and in-store via the PayPal mobile wallet, both banks announced today.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

It has been a busy year in the world of mobile commerce, particularly with retail apps. Merchants from grocers to quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and gas stations rolled out new ways for consumers to transact from mobile ordering to scan-and-go checkout in 2018. Apps As Mobile Ordering Tools.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How We Will Pay , a PYMNTS and Visa collaboration, surveyed a census-balanced sample of nearly 9,600 consumers on how they browse and shop for groceries and other goods, and found while the pandemic affects everyone, “no one has changed quite as much as the two most connected consumer groups of all: bridge millennials and superconnected consumers.”.

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Banking Exchange

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Almost every brand across industries is courting millennials and Generation Z consumers Retail Banking Technology Lines of Business Financial Trends Feature Customers Feature3 People Digital Mobile Tech Management Online Financial Research Fintech.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

After something of a slow start, mobile eCommerce is set to make up half of all online sales by the year 2020 — worth nearly $250 billion annually. That forecast comes care of “A Mobile Mindset,” the second volume in the five-part series, “The 2017 UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper.”

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

s robust marketing strategy for its retail bank has paid off, as the bank today reported that half of its new retail customers were millennials. Of Ally Financial’s 230,000 new retail deposit customers via its retail side, Ally Bank, 126,500 were millennials, according to bank’s earnings report released today.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Among those who said they would increase spend, about a third of millennials and Gen Xers said they would increase spending. The conduit to that spend is split between desktop and mobile devices. Seventy-four percent of holiday shoppers will do so via mobile device; 91.3 There’s a certain amount of “bah humbug” at play as well.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Not willingly – unless you use a credit card at the POS terminal, that is, in which case you’ll pay the retail price plus 21 percent. Older “ bridge millennials ” led the way when it comes to living within one’s means by showing a clear preference for debit products. Would you pay interest on a cup of coffee?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

Target is not the first retailer to go to market with a mobile payments app. But the experts think that, in Target’s case, being third may not be much of an obstacle as it carries a natural advantage with the younger consumers who are most likely to adopt a mobile payments platform to start with. “If

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

eCommerce’s rise has only made designing retail showrooms more complex, however. Merchants need to bridge this gap as digital connectivity pushes the retail world’s boundaries. Companies need all the tools they can get to keep consumers engaged in the competitive retail environment. The Rise of Visual Search.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

Forget millennials – well, at least for a moment. So-called Generation Z is also driving much of the innovation when it comes to retail. To reach consumers on the hunt for offerings that are “clean and natural,” the retail chain rolled out its Everspring household brand. Take Target, for instance. Fast Fashion.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

That’s understandable, given how viciously email, texting and other forms of digital and mobile communication have displaced actual writing — which, of course, would seem to reduce the need for actual stationery products. The chain had since expanded to some 260 or so retail locations. Millennials to the Rescue.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The virus itself is not the only factor in play, however, with the devastating economic downturn and record-high unemployment rates also sharply reducing consumers’ purchasing power and their willingness to make retail purchases. Digital commerce is one of the only truly safe revenue streams available to retailers right now.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Convenience store operators would be wise to pay close attention to the purchasing habits of a certain subset of consumer: the Bridge Millennial — the first generation of connected consumers with spending power. But what motivates consumers, BMs included, to use mobile apps for gas-related purchases? So what do BMs want from a gas app?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

Retail frequently adapts well to the new technologies or tools consumers might be using to shop, but repricing goods to accommodate customers who are wary of overspending is often out of its reach. This is prompting retailers outside the luxury space to explore buy now, pay later (BNPL) options. Brands in Australia, the U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Online marketplaces for everything from retail goods to travel services to hospitality need to ensure a quick and easy way for both buyers and sellers to transact with each other— or risk losing both sides to a waiting host of competitors. An AI-Powered Visual Shopping Experience For Millennials, Gen Z.

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