PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Big retailers are opening smaller-format stores in major U.S. Already, the retailer has opened a Planning Studio across the pond in London in October. In the announcement, IKEA Retail U.S. As it stands, Amazon Go stores in Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco use the cashierless technology.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Entrepreneurs sometimes see opportunity in places that are far from the hustle and bustle of city life: When spending time in San Francisco, Outdoorsy Co-founder and CEO Jeff Cavins spotted an unmet need for accommodations other than hotels or home shares in scenic destinations. They want everything on demand,” Cavins said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

If the seller is still interested Shift personnel will pick up the car from one of its hubs (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and Portland) and pay the seller via ACH transfer. Shift says its biggest demographic groups are millennials and GenXers (or an age range of 25 to 45).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Founded a little over a year ago, Hims seeks to tap the millennial male market by offering up skincare solutions, hair-loss products and erectile dysfunction medication (specifically, a generic form of Viagra) online. Mens health and personal care startup Hims offers up a pretty straightforward business proposition.

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BankInovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Eighty-five percent of Americans and 95% of millennials say they are interested in sustainable investment, according to Arnaud Auger, vice president of BNP Paribas and the deputy head of the innovation lab of BNP Paribas in San Francisco. The majority of Americans want to invest in environmental sustainability.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2019

Older adults tend to own, while younger adults skew much more heavily toward renting – particularly millennials, for whom homeownership is lower than other generations at the same point in their lives. Try finding a place to live in San Francisco with a $1,215 monthly rent budget. What is Nuns and Nones?

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2019

Kiosks are increasingly becoming part of the retail landscape. As reported in the latest Unattended Retail Tracker , done in partnership between PYMNTS and WorldNet Payments, unattended retail is gaining traction worldwide, on the heels of growth in consumer demand and as employers look to increase their operating profits.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

So started Affirm’s Co-Founder and CEO Max Levchin ’s remarks at his firm’s first-ever AFFIRMation conference for its retail partners in San Francisco yesterday. “Finance is pretty broken.”. Levchin, by his own description, has spent his career in financial services and founding companies — “some of which succeeded, some didn’t.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In this imaginary coffee shop — let’s call it Mooncheddar — there are tables and chairs, a service counter staffed by hip, young millennials with half-shaved heads, delicious and ethically sourced coffees, pastries baked in-house, free WiFi and even mobile ordering. Imagine a coffee shop. Mooncheddar sounds like it has it all.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The move comes as consumers — particularly millennials — are opting for furniture subscriptions through startups like Feather. The American dream has changed [for millennials ],” Jay Reno, Feather’s founder and CEO, told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster in an interview. “The

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

While millennials are a highly coveted demographic in many business sectors, there is one restaurant in San Francisco that is reaching to new heights to attract a younger, tech-savvy clientele — or at least to attract some additional attention. Three-Michelin-star restaurant Quince has reportedly begun to serve food on iPads.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Bridge Millennials And The Threat To Physical Retail. We called them Bridge Millennials. At 30 to 40 years of age, they are younger than Gen X-ers but older than most millennials. The chain’s investment in Flipkart includes $2 billion of new equity funding, which Flipkart will use to accelerate growth.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

With traditional brick-and-mortar retail facing big problems , some chains are addressing them with small solutions. Is this a viable answer to the beating that Sears’ bottom line (and that of many other one-time stalwarts of brick-and-mortar retail) have been taking in recent years? Specifically, with small(er) stores.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Other stores for a mix of in-house brands are set to move into Westfield World Trade Center, San Francisco Centre, and Garden State Plaza, among other places. Verishop is targeting mainly younger, affluent and millennial shoppers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Tru Kids CEO Richard Barry in a statement, according to the outlet, “We believe this live experience coupled with our new experiential retail stores will attract families from around the world and create a unique opportunity to rediscover the magic of this beloved family brand.” And it had roughly 1,600 stores globally.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Consumers, small businesses, retailers, merchants or digital partners – we spend a lot of time trying to understand their possible pain points, and bring them back to the teams here to get busy trying to solve the problems.”. Friction-Free Checkout.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2016

.” While Luedorf and American Apparel might be hitting the express delivery point hard, it only applies to a subset of 50 products the retailer is dubbing as “basics.” The boon from the partnership is obvious for American Apparel, but Retail Dive noted that it maintains a certain momentum for Postmates as well.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

A newly launched retail app called Dote has raised $7.2 When we saw the engagement and session times for Dote and heard from users, we saw that it had created the ‘shopping as entertainment’ experience on smartphones for millennial and Gen Z women,” says Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed. “We Lightspeed Venture Partners led the $7.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

More than 100 Goodwill store locations ranging from New York to San Francisco are uploading products like collectibles, clothing and furniture to the platform to drive in-store and online sales. With the tie-up, the items are listed under handles for regional Goodwill locations. for sellers and buyers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

The San Francisco-based startup lets brides and bridesmaids shop together online, mimicking the traditional offline bridal-party-shopping outing. The new funding was said to be used to Weddington Way’s team, expand its efforts to acquire new customers and make improvements to its collaborative-shopping platform.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2017

And according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, “… cash remains a unique, resilient and heavily used consumer payment instrument.”. And cash’s popularity isn’t limited just to retail purchases. There’s a perception that consumers either can’t or won’t pay their bills in cash.

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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

APRIL 19, 2016

” Retailers have come to recognize the incredible marketing opportunity presented by the multi-weekend music festival in Southern California. Todd Smith, president and CMO at Sonic, told MarketWatch that this campaign comes from the company’s long experience with the millennial demographic.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

The move comes as consumers — particularly millennials — are opting for furniture subscriptions through startups like Feather.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The company’s target market includes Gen Z and millennials. The company offers rooms in markets like New York, San Francisco, Nashville, New Orleans, Chicago and Orlando. Their profiles will display a blue checkmark once they are verified.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The average shopper — retail’s favorite concept. and San Francisco. And arguably, in the age of digital retail, omnichannel and an ever-proliferating number of places that consumers can close the deal, so to speak, the search for an average consumer is something of a lost cause.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials. Razer, which was founded in 2005, has 18 offices around the globe and headquarters in both Singapore and San Francisco. The integrated service is expected to roll out in select countries in Southeast Asia before expanding across the world.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This doesn’t mean that North American customers aren’t pining for mobile ordering options — especially the millennial market. For the latest in unattended retail news, trends, and developments, take a look at the PYMNTS.com Unattended Retail Tracker™ , powered by USA Technologies. While the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities. communities. “In

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Coinsource, America’s largest bitcoin ATM provider, just announced proudly that the company now has 55 ATM kiosks, after adding six new ones in California — four in Los Angeles and two in San Francisco. Research says millennials love gift cards , so that may be a way to create a budding bitcoin trend.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The brand has been well-known among Generation Z and millennial consumers for several years – particularly those into the clubbing and music festival scene. These are the types of things one can expect to find on the Dolls Kill online shopping portal – as well as off the rack in their San Francisco and Los Angeles physical locations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Four years of college in New Hampshire was the longest I lived in one place ever,” he said, recounting time also spent in Singapore and San Francisco, his current location. The company functions as a direct-to-consumer operator, having relationships with furniture manufacturers (and a few retailers). Furniture — And Design.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

Marketplaces can attract millennials, as that demographic group is more likely to value experiences over other target markets. Either way, experiences on such sites can be rather unique: In San Francisco, for example, the site has an experience to meet a red panda at the zoo with the zookeeper. Friends and Gift Giving.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

7), the transit-as-a-service operator is offering car and truck owners looking to offload their vehicles a deal: Sell those vehicles via online retail service Carvana and get in return $250 worth of Lyft credits, plus three months of free membership in Lyft’s new Lyft Pink membership subscription program.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

On the back of this social commerce model, the company now sees about $500 million in annual sales and has become one of the most recognizable names, particularly to millennial consumers in the footwear industry.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

Like millions of others, I enjoy having a cup of coffee at various retail coffee establishments. On a recent visit to my local coffee shop, I realized how uphill a task this can be with millennials and Generation Z patrons who are joining the ranks of coffee aficionados.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Unemployment is below 4 percent, wages are growing and retail sales are surging. According to a recent report released by the San Francisco Federal Reserve — however much better Americans are doing, they are still feeling the bite of the recession — even if they aren’t feeling it acutely. So, time for party hats?

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