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Baby Boomers Vs. Millennials: Home Renovations Edition

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As to be expected, baby boomers and millennials were at different ends of the spectrum in terms of the types of houses bought, differences in improvement choices and amount of money spent on repairs. As we reported back in February, millennials are saddled with much more debt than baby boomers were at the same age.

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

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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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Does Hipmunk’s Demise Signal Larger Changes In Travel?

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As the travel industry shifts into higher digital gear, and increasingly responds to the needs and desires of new consumer groups — millennials and Gen Z among them — some players are getting left behind and making their way into the history books. That’s the general case with travel search startup Hipmunk. Larger Travel Trends.

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Melding Digital With Physical Rescues In-Store Retailing

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Webster pointed to Main Street SMBs as “a segment of physical retail that may even have the best of all digital/physical retail options,” and noting that “Direct-to-consumer brands may find them to be an attractive outlet to capitalize on the hyperlocal shopping experiences with which consumers in those communities feel most comfortable.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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Addressing the Need for Personalization in the Financial Services Industry

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Successful financial services firms will capitalize on their robust sets of operational data to create actionable insights across a connected digital ecosystem and deliver integrated, seamless, tailored customer experiences. population is considered Millennial or younger, as of July 2019) , the demand for personalization grows.

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Making Marketplaces For Experiences

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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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