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USAT: Bridging The ‘Consumer Gap’ In Unattended Retail

PYMNTS

In this case, it’s the gap between interest and intent, the chasm that lies between consumer awareness of unattended retail and actually taking the plunge in buying at the kiosk and vending machine. At a high level, according to PYMNTS data , unattended retail is reaching only one-tenth of its potential. Hurdles For Larger Merchants.

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Digital Payments, Online Ordering And Memberships Top This Week’s News

PYMNTS

Millennials Drive More to Faster Payments . Millennials and Gen Z are among the groups that are most likely to have received instant payments. Data Analytics Changes the Working Capital Management Paradigm. Walmart Reboots Retail With Its Rethink on Robotics . Walmart Reboots Retail With Its Rethink on Robotics .

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

CB Insights

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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Making Marketplaces For Experiences

PYMNTS

Millennials, the conventional wisdom goes, are far more into experiences than they are into buying things. One of the recurring themes in American capitalism, he said, is the periodic fear that this next generation just isn’t doing its part, commercially speaking, and spending enough. There is some element of truth in that statement.

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What The Great Time Revolution Means For Consumers

PYMNTS

Millennials and bridge millennials (32- to 42-year-olds) are the demographic cohorts who have most shifted the time and day of their grocery shopping. We observe the same pattern in shopping for retail products, with a year-over-year increase of 86 percent in the number of consumers shopping for retail products during the week.

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How Can Banks Thrive in the Next Five Years?

Jeff For Banks

They are/were the business owners, demanders of capital and loans, and significant depositors. Then came this bubble generation they named millennials. Ever call your millennial child only to get a text back asking "what?" There is a fintech firm, SoFi, that was born in 2011, that focuses on millennials financial needs.

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mPOS – Not Just For Retail Anymore

PYMNTS

Then, three years ago, Miller, who admits to being cautious when it comes to new ventures and technology, took a leap of faith per his millennial son’s recommendation. But Miller is one of the SMBs who also took advantage of the Square Capital program which gave him access to working capital at more favorable terms.

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