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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

In fact, for the last 154 years — ever since President Lincoln first enshrined a national day of Thanksgiving for the last Thursday of November in 1863 — turkeys accompanied by cranberry sauce and potatoes (both sweet and white) have consistently been served on dinner tables nationwide. drop from last year. this year — versus $22.74

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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MAY 3, 2018

In China, millions take advantage of May Day — also known as Labor Day, the national workers’ holiday — to head overseas for a few days. Alipay reported processing five times as many in-store transactions overseas this Labor Day compared to Labor Day 2017. What drove the trend? Hong Kong and Singapore this year.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after weeks of seeking to avoid national shutdown in favor of local tiered limitations, has imposed another strict national lockdown aimed at halting the coronavirus’ spread. Consumers aren’t going into a commerce coma, as retail experts around the world seem to fear. In the U.K.,

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Brick-and-mortar retail is often written off as a casualty of the digital age, but the numbers tell a different story. While there are a variety of estimates and ranges out there, the hard facts reveal that about 90 percent of retail transactions take place in a physical store. Digital commerce is growing — and growing very quickly.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Every few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials are killing home ownership. Millennials aren’t shunning luxury goods; they’re just renting them instead of buying. Millennials are in debt.

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OCTOBER 6, 2019

Go Global Retail announced its plans to acquire the assets of ModCloth from Walmart. ModCloth offers exclusive indie and vintage-inspired women’s clothing, shoes, handbags and accessories for 18- to 35-year-old women, while Go Global Retail is a brand investment platform for strategic investors in the consumer sector.

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MAY 11, 2018

That’s one of the driving ideas behind a new service that Marriott International recently launched for Chinese travelers going overseas — a service that also helps to demonstrate how the country’s growing tourist class is changing payments and retail. Marriott began working with Fliggy in August 2017. Last year, the U.S.-based

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

To learn more about why, PYMNTS this past week caught up with Doug Hundley, a spokesperson for the National Christmas Tree Association. First, a little bit about the landscape for live Christmas trees — in 2017, U.S. That is helpful especially for “millennial and Generation Xers,” he said. Christmas Tree Landscape.

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APRIL 9, 2020

consumers who had shopped in a physical retail location during the previous week. By that time the nation had accepted the COVID-19 pandemic’s inevitability, triggering a wave of stock-up buying of household supplies as face masks were suddenly everywhere, and major coronavirus-induced lockdowns commenced. Et tu , Millennials?

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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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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Since the “Trump Bump” lifted the market early in 2017, mid-size banks have held on to nice stock price appreciation with continued solid profitability. Balance sheet growth from larger commercial clients does not consume the same headcount and resources that the retail business requires.

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JULY 14, 2017

Shaping the future of retail is not a concept that shoots to the top of the list when the industry thinks of senior citizens. When it comes to senior citizens, the retail industry typically has reached out to share discounts , what stocks to buy or alerting them to various scams. Since 2001, the U.S.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

As Grady noted in an interview with WDRB Louisville , with the major national problems of obesity and diabetes, the no-calorie, no-sugar caffeine delivery business seemed like a natural and growing opportunity. “I’ve It can now be found in 1,500 retail locations nationwide and counting.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

For retailers, feast or famine? The most interesting thing is that retail sales have been amazing this year,” Quinlan said. Holiday spending at retailers overall is up 3.6 percent thus far in 2017, and could be on the order of 4 to 5 percent higher year-over-year, with numbers likely to shake out to the higher end.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While much of physical retail struggled in 2017 from rapidly realigning consumer shopping habits, the team at Home Depot had an incredibly solid year, with same-store sales growing each quarter and a stock price that surged 42 percent. Despite retail’s slump, the stock market did well in 2017. A Stumbling Start to 2018.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Currently, Amazon hopes to take advantage of recently loosened restrictions on foreign retailers in India by expanding its online grocery venture into the nation of some 1.3 Over the past few years, Amazon has invested billions of dollars in establishing a presence in India’s fast-growing online retail market.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

million last month to purchase the retail condo housing Murray’s flagship store, affiliated classrooms, as well as its catering and event operations. Murray’s Cheese and Kroger have been partners for nearly a decade, with the national grocer selling the cheese shop’s products in its supermarkets. percent of U.S.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. One hundred and ten (110) million U.S. consumers — 47.2

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JULY 30, 2018

With millennials working multiple gigs, very few have enough time left to make a proper meal — if they aren’t eating out at a local restaurant. Blue Apron’s 2017 IPO largely flopped on Wall Street, and the company made a number of high profile changes like expanding into Costco. million customers and 39.5 million meals delivered.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

CEO Neil Fiske noted market conditions, particularly in the company’s home nation of Australia, remain difficult. To that end, the firm has partnered with retail solutions provider Aptos to better develop a cloud-based, omnichannel platform for its customers. million for the first half of the year, tripling its entire $23.7

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MARCH 30, 2016

1, 2017, then to $11 an hour one year later and will see annual increases of $1 until reaching $15 an hour on Jan. The $15 hourly minimum wage would be the highest in the nation, and the proposal represents a potential game-changer in the battle to raise the federal minimum wage, which currently stands at $7.25 an hour on Jan.

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MAY 9, 2017

Likewise, earnings per share (EPS) and net income hit well above expectations, with the online retail giant raking in $1.48 The online retail giant is already a major contender in online apparel sales among millennials. For the quarter, Amazon reported revenue of $35.7 EPS and netting $724 million, up 41 percent year on year.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

percent it fell in 2017 according to IWSR, an industry tracker for the drinks market. . It is not quite fair to say that America has become a nation of teetotalers or is even well on their way to becoming one. Folks in the Millennial generation have maybe a better sense of balance. In 2019 alcohol consumption in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

According to a CareerBuilder report , 75 percent of consumers reported living paycheck to paycheck in 2017, up 7 percent from 68 percent in 2016. The biggest push for instant payments this year, however, has come from the nation’s largest retailer, Walmart. Eventually, I think this will become table stakes.”.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

percent in 2017, Taco Bell has been drawing in customers with new food items, a Live Más marketing campaign and new nacho fries for $1. McDelivery on the Uber Eats app is available from more than 2,000 restaurants around the country, with 1,000 new stores added in 2017. But McDonald ’s Corp. McDonald’s $37.5 McDonald’s $37.5

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JUNE 17, 2019

Hong Kong, India and Australia are among just a few of the nations to launch their own local faster payment systems while a host of other countries are moving forward with their own plans to launch a faster payment scheme. This means that the FPS implies equal rights and opportunities for all participants.”.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This report — the third in our annual series — shows the results of a national study of 5,000 U.S. In 2019, 31 percent of all consumers reported that they owned at least one voice-activated device, up from 14 percent in 2017.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

These are the results from the latest PYMNTS Apple Pay use and adoption study of a national sample of 2,998 consumers between Sept. percent of retail sales. percent in 2017 before declining to 5.2 The use of mobile wallets has remained flat, with only 5.9 percent of consumers with “the Pays” installed using them. 23 and Sept.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Amazon might be the “everything store,” according to Staples’ VP of retail marketing, Christine Mallon, but Staples is something quite special when it comes to getting the kids geared up for the back-to-school shopping season. In 2018, the National Retail Federation estimates that consumers will spend $82.8 is big business.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Despite the concern – and a corresponding 9 percent drop in Walmart’s stock price that shaved some $29 billion from its market cap – CEO Doug McMillon told analysts he remains confident that 2018 digital sales performance will be in parity to its 2017 performance. eCommerce growth number. and around the world. “We’ll

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JANUARY 2, 2017

From using virtual reality to overhauling the retail industry to shifting trends in cross-border payments, here are some of the highlights from our 2016 Trackers. Prpic and his team are hoping to use VR technology to transform luxury and high-end retail as we know it. DEVELOPER TRACKER.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

That might not be a crazy assumption: Reports from Nielsen reveal that television viewership by that demographic has declined more than 40 percent since 2010 and is off 11 percent year over year for the older half of millennials aged 25 to 34. In 2017, QVC bought HSN for $2.1 Today, QVC and HSN, combined with their 69.4

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

According to a late 2017 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , almost 40 percent of American adults and nearly 20 percent of adolescents are obese – the highest rates in U.S. The fact that obesity has grown to epidemic proportions in the U.S. and around the world is, regrettably, old news at this point. recorded history.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

In San Fransisco, the figures are similar — and in most of the nation’s top cities, 750-850 are considered about the norm. home was about 1,600 square feet — as of 2017, that figure is somewhere between 2.,400 In 1973, the average size of a new U.S. 400 – 2,600 feet. A bed, a couch, a closet — whatever the user requires.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Retailers often need additional coverage during peak holiday shopping periods, hospitals may need substitutes for nurses on paternity leave and construction companies might need to increase staff for sizable projects. The national unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 1969 in April 2019 — 3.6 rose from 3.1 million by 2022.

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JULY 29, 2016

Retail had a good week, both in concept with contextual commerce and Macy’s getting high-tech with a little help from IBM. Millennials. If you’re a millennial, the FinTech world is literally beating a path to your front door. Millennials are clearly a sizzle. Context + commerce = sizzle. The next step? Macy’s.

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