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Can Millennials Revive Call Center Commerce?

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Millennials have long borne the blame for a variety of problems in commerce, including the decline in popularity of diamonds and certain fast casual restaurants. Millennials could be helping to bring new life to call center commerce. That’s reportedly the case when it comes to luxury retail brand Gucci. Larger Changes.

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Trust And Speed Light A New Path To Omnichannel Retail

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But as a new webinar from PYMNTS showed, retail success is not exactly some mysterious process; it simply requires close attention to changing consumer trends and new technologies, including those centered around payments. They were born into a world with this technology and access,” Parsons said. Trust Issues.

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Digital Spaces As Virtual Makeup Studios, Augmented Reality Style

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Releasing AR headsets would put the social media giant in direct competition with AR startups like Magic Leap and Thalmic Labs. billion, and brands are already getting onboard with the technology. Then, in June , it was reported that H&M is rolling out a voice-activated mirror in a flagship New York City location.

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Fast Fashion Isn’t Dead Yet — And Could Find Retail Rebirth

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30) from the Columbia Spectator , which covers news important to students at Columbia University and Barnard College in the global fashion capital of New York City. Even so, “Forever 21 bankruptcy signals a change in consumer tastes,” The New York Times declared.

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

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Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one). Back to 2012.

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

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Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one). Back to 2012.

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The Shopper’s Brain On Bargains

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Part of it is a savvy social media-based distribution model through WeChat. on New York City’s Fifth Avenue. IPO this week, bringing the three-year-old eCommerce firm’s valuation to $32.4 The firm claims to have 343.3 million active buyers in Q2, and 195 million active monthly users.

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