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Trending: Meeting The Millennial Need For AI-Powered Visual Shopping

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For more on this and other news in the platform economy, visit the Playbook’s News and Trends section. An AI-Powered Visual Shopping Experience For Millennials, Gen Z. The app-based social commerce platforms are among several marketplaces struggling to protect users ag ainst opportunistic bad actors.

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Can Millennials Revive Call Center Commerce?

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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. Millennials are increasingly seeking access to luxury goods — including relatively affordable items.

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OAK + FORT: Flexible-Payment Plans Boost Luxury Purchases

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Merchants are optimizing their eCommerce operations, but this is posing challenges for some, including luxury merchants. Luxury retailers are also targeting millennial and Generation Z consumers to expand their customer bases, with one report showing that millennials accounted for 35 percent of high-end retail purchases, for example.

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Report: How Faster Disbursements Can Woo Millennial Investors

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This has had a ripple effect on the broader investment industry, as banks and other financial firms look to meet customers’ needs while mitigating the pandemic’s effects on their operations. For more on these and other stories, visit the Tracker’s News & Trends. In this month’s Feature Story, PYMNTS spoke with Brian M.

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Target Pilots Buy Now Pay Later With Sezzle

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Sezzle , the installments payments platform, will be working on buy now, pay later (BNPL) services with Target , a press release says, which will test how the popular payment trend works with the retail giant's operations.

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Kohl’s To Tap Into Facebook Data To Create Millennial Clothing Line

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Kohl’s is teaming up with the social media giant to uncover emerging brands that millennial shoppers consider cool. Kohl’s is following a retail movement to offer curated collections so shoppers can explore new trends. In another attempt to reach millennials, Kohl’s partnered with Popsugar to launch a clothing line last September.

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What’s Under The Millennial Christmas Tree This Year?

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Yet, instead of offering the option to pay now and buy later, the credit cards reversed the order of operation and allowed customers to buy now and pay later over time. According to a study cited by Afterpay, most millennial consumers buy fashion and beauty items more frequently than other items, such as books, entertainment or home goods.