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The Buyers: Generation Z’s Shopping Preferences

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Generation Z are the next up-and-coming group of shoppers who retailers are turning to for the future of retail. Yes, those born between 1994 and 2002 are starting to push millennials over in terms of shaping commerce and eCommerce trends. Get ready, retailers.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

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Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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Walmart May Be Looking To Sell Off Its Japanese Business

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According to FT reports, Walmart has been approaching bankers to explore an exit by sale from Japan, as the international retail giant is seeking to divest itself of the struggling Seiyu supermarket chain. Walmart first purchase Seiyu in 2002, but has faced difficulties gaining traction in the extraordinarily challenging Japanese market.

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How To Drive Success In A Digital 3.0 World

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In 1979, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky developed the Prospect Theory , one of the foundations of behavioral economics for which they would win the Nobel Prize in 2002. Back in March, the consumers who were already living their lives in a digital-mostly world simply shifted more of their activities online.

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Wayfair’s Way Forward In A Crowded Field

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So small, in fact, that when it first started in 2002, the entire operation fit easily into the spare bedroom of Co-founder Steve Conine’s Boston home. But we knew we wanted to build a nationally known mass retailer.”. Furniture, unlike clothes, food and books, is not considered an ideal product for online sale.

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The Rumble In Big Retail’s Jungle

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The Rumble In The Big Retail Jungle. Last week, the biggest retailer in the world by revenue, Walmart, made an announcement that made it clear that it’s really not that interested in ceding the title of world’s biggest retailer to a younger, and nimble challenger named Amazon.

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Wayfair’s Burgeoning Home Goods Ecosystem

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In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. Two years ago, when conversations about the uses for augmented and virtual reality technology were mostly limited to the gaming industry, Wayfair was among the first out of the gate to apply the technology to retail.

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