PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 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? Census, millennials are 25 to 34 years old. The reason for that is because data shows a significant difference in payments and commerce between this segment and the Census view of 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. You can’t be one price.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Among the forces working to influence and change retail — and do so into the 2019 holiday shopping season, as well as the 2020s — is the rise of bridge millennials. Having had the time to establish their careers, they enjoy higher spending power than younger millennials, who are just now dipping their toes into the professional world.

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PYMNTS

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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Dramatic shifts are underway in the retail sector as it adjusts to consumers’ increasingly digital preferences. These retailers are accustomed to engaging with their customers in brick-and-mortar stores and building long-lasting relationships that lead to brand loyalty. billion this year — almost double last year’s total.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2017

Retailers trying to bridge the growing gap between the shopping trends of Baby Boomers, Generation Z and every demographic in between may think they have the different generations figured out, but in some cases, operating on assumptions can lead to missed sales. Millennials. Baby Boomers. was home to 81.3 was home to 81.3

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

Move over millennials , there’s a new kid in town that is about to become nearer and dearer to retailers’ hearts: Gen Z. Interactions’ study found Gen-Z shoppers to be extremely “digitally savvy,” although 64 percent of them shop primarily in stores rather than with online merchants.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yet, the two most connected consumer groups — bridge millennials and superconnected consumers — have changed their habits the most. Both bridge millennials and superconnected consumers own more connected devices than the average consumer and are considered to be on the cutting edge of digital adoption.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Millennials have long been sought-after travel and hospitality customers, partly because they are perfectly placed to seek such experiences. This unique status creates both opportunities and challenges for firms in the space, as millennials search for the experiences they crave. Furthermore, millennials are set to spend $1.4

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

By the time retailers get to Black Friday , they will have worked through almost two months of sales events – both proprietary and otherwise – from competitors ranging from Amazon to Target to Walmart. This latest study also showed that Black Friday will be a digital-first holiday – and perhaps even digitally dominated.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2016

19) released a report, dubbed “Millennial Study: Privacy vs. Customer Experience,” which charts the digital consumer preferences and behaviors of millennials in seven global markets — the U.S., Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico and Brazil — and found millennials are guarded about sharing their personal data.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Offering an app doesn’t a guarantee retailers popularity or loyalty, though. Much has been made about app fatigue, yet retailers keep launching them. What does it take for consumers to download new retail apps? percent are currently “very” or “extremely” interested in using a retail app to speed up checkout, while 92.8

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Consumers — especially millennials and Generation Z — are looking for new commerce experiences during the 2019 holiday season. Retailers must accommodate financial flexibility, which is leading many to explore alternative solutions — such as Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solutions. Around The Buy Now, Pay Later Worl d.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Those promise to stand as two main traits of the 2018 holiday shopping season , and retailers that gain an edge and increase revenue during the all-important fourth quarter will likely have exploited such tactics during this period, at least according to new data that strives to paint a detailed picture of U.S. percent, reaching $124.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

This study showed that the home had become the consumer’s commerce command center as they changed their daily routines to do more of their work and more of their once-physical errands from home. percent made voice-assisted purchases while shopping for groceries or retail goods in the last 24 hours. 31 percent bank via app.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Debatably the most impactful payments innovation of recent years — and that’s saying something — BNPL is having a massive impact on retail, as evidenced by the proliferation of brands and the steady flow of venture capital to players that are defining the space. Bridge Millennials Crossing Over To BNPL. percent of bridge millennials.”

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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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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

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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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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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. Homesharing Platforms Vie For Millennial, Gen Z Travelers. Visit the Playbook’s feature story to find out how Airbnb is prioritizing payments for millennial loyalty.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

percent of all retail eCommerce sales by the year 2020. The bulk of those transactions will come on smartphones — 17 percent of all transactions will be started there, according to the data — and millennials will be responsible for the switch, as they currently represent some 66 percent of mobile purchases.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

PYMNTS has tracked those changes every step of the way via exclusive research , Tracker reports and studies, starting on March 6, a full 10 days before the country – or large swaths of it – were locked down. For the purposes of this exercise, we’re going to describe the “typical” grocery shopper – a bridge millennial, a 36-year-old mom of 1.93

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Retailers should take initiative in communicating with shoppers — especially younger ones — by email rather than social media channels, a new report by Bluecore found. And, said half of those surveyed, smart devices are the conduits for reading those emails.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

This lower figure, plus the drive to digitize the market, is making the clothing industry increasingly competitive, with retailers clamoring to attract and maintain shoppers’ loyalty. The retail torch is being passed to a small cross-section of consumers, where Generation X meets the millennial generation, known as the bridge millennials.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In a year that’s been filled with lifestyle changes, personal pivots and business adaptations, 2020 may also go down as the year of the gift card as studies show an outsized increase in sales leading up to the busy holiday season. Bridge millennials and Gen Xers led the way, with a 35.7

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. How We Will Pay 2019 is an annual national study of more than 5,000 U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

Millennial moms have been written about fairly exhaustively. Millennials, that precious group of consumers aged 18-34, are no longer merely a trendy demographic. But for all the time wondering about mom, very few have wondered what the world of the millennial dad shopper is — mostly because men stereotypically don’t like to shop.

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PYMNTS

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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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

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

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. In collaboration with Visa , we studied 2,800 U.S.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

That said, many lessons can be learned by looking across various industries for best practices around understanding the customer journey, engaging brand experiences, and Millennial and Gen Z customer acquisition and servicing. Then we present an outside industry (automotive, retail, etc.) First, we tee up the challenge and opportunity.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Consumers are becoming more familiar with digital technologies and are expecting swifter disbursement methods in other areas of their lives, such as for P2P or retail-related payments. Instant Payments and the Millennial Push.

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