PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2017

Who’s smarter: Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home? In a study by New York-based digital agency 360i, researchers used proprietary new Voice Search Monitor (VSM) software to ask Alexa and Google the same set of 3,000 questions and found that Google Home was six times more likely to answer correctly. In Other News….

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this case, it provided a really great opportunity to work closely with their whole team, and to learn about the impact of influence-based businesses on retail.”. The company had come a long way from its launch in 2014, when it had about 10 retailers signed on to offer Afterpay as a payment option during checkout.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. The study found that both millennials and non-millennials want to use mobile to manage finances, and cash is becoming less important to both groups.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Google Maps is getting more personal, and Nintendo is taking advantage of consumer nostalgia. Bridge Millennials And The Threat To Physical Retail. We called them Bridge Millennials. At 30 to 40 years of age, they are younger than Gen X-ers but older than most millennials. Finally, we look at Uber spending habits.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

Google also started an Order Online shortcut with results for people using Google Assistant on mobile phones, which also allows users to place orders using Google Pay. The competitive food delivery market could balloon to $24 billion by the year 2023, from $17 billion this year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

Retailers are bolstering their supply chains in China as they seek to enhance their service and offer customers fresh products. The post also pointed out that the retailer invested over RMB 700 million – which is approximately $100 million – to create the South China Fresh Food Distribution Center. and other markets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. There are so many levers to engage consumers” in rewards, said Wind, and whether it is tied specifically to a card or merchant, additional leverage can come through email marketing campaigns or percentage-off programs at retailers. credit cards, 1.3

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

Data: $800 billion+: Market cap of Google parent Alphabet. percent: Share of millennials who use mobile apps most frequently for planning in-store purchases. And the conventional wisdom on alternative lending comes in for a gut check as more merchants learn how to reverse the course on subscription churn.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Accessing Amazon’s Alexa (13 percent) and Google Assistant (12 percent) through the dashboard were far less popular. But in-dash Google Assistant had a good deal of future interest: 31.9 Mobile Ordering Appeals to Millennials. percent said they would engage in commuter commerce if this option was available. percent vs. 45.8

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Though they’ve overcome serious technical hurdles, work well, and are now in the hands of billions of smartphone-owning consumers, mobile wallets including those from Big Tech players Apple and Google are starving for share as Q1 2020 usage slipped below an unimpressive 2019. Et tu , Millennials? percent in 2019.”. This is down from 4.5

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NCR

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

And there’s no better way to target Millennial entrepreneurs than with the technology they crave to help them in their business pursuits. More than any other generation, Millennials experience life, work and business through technology and they expect seamless interactions regardless of location.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

The online retail giant is set to release the Echo Show to the world on June 28 of this year. Given the market’s reaction to the Echo Show during the holiday season, it’s possible we’ll see the Echo Show sell out quickly as well. The Echo Show retails for $229.99 percent market share. The remaining 5.6

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The conference was well attended, with broad representation from all institution sizes and markets. Presentations focused on targeted marketing for “moneyhawks” , new P2P models (e.g. One spoke of the need to market correctly.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While beauty conglomerates like L’Oréal are making acquisitions to become more tech-enabled, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) are pursuing the high margins in beauty through partnerships, consumer insights, e-commerce, and more. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Source: Think with Google.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The lucrative “ bridge millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high-earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent reporting ownership of a voice-activated device and 55 percent of those owners using them to make a purchase. Amazon’s Extensive Offerings.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Kohn sees the product “as a really fun unique form of protein that we don’t think exists on the market right now.” The company makes products that not only have flavors that are unique to the market, Kohn says, but are distinctive from each other to cater to different palates. The Meat Snack Market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

We finally have a definitive answer to the mysterious, canary-yellow marketing campaign Snapchat launched earlier this year. It’s not just millennials and post-millennials using a free service any longer. It’s not just millennials and post-millennials using a free service any longer.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

Take a look at this chart, which lays out grocery chain market share. You will observe grocery, as a retail category, is very fragmented. Walmart has the largest market share at 14.2 I’ll point out that those retailers did, apparently, have the money to hire lawyers. This one is particularly amusing. Investors put $2.65

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

When Amazon, the largest retailer by market cap, says that it had its best day ever , it’s hard not to call that a sizzle – and then some. Even Amazon competitors like Macys, Target and even Best Buy reported that their sales rose that day by 13 percent or more – as they rode the Prime Day draft and put their own offers in market.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

From automakers to retailers and online platforms, companies around the world are tapping into connected commerce technology in automobiles and mobile devices. Restaurants can expand their menu without additional expenses on food, marketing and delivery,” Yandex said in a statement, “even if nearby restaurants aren’t specialized in it.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Price reductions from consumers’ favorite brands would solve their issues, but retailers cannot drop prices as low as some might like. This atmosphere of financial flexibility is crucial to retailers looking to compete in today’s shopping environment, no matter how customers are transacting. BNPL Budgets and Customer Comfort.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

27), Anthony Barzilay Freund, editorial director and director of fine art at the retailer of antique and modern furniture, jewelry, fashion and art, talked about the role content — even long-form articles — can play in eCommerce in 2019. According to the Data & Marketing Association , 9.8 Speaking to Audiences. billion in 2007.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Forbes reports that Discogs owes its success to the vinyl resurgence and, though some millennials may not want to admit it, to big corporate retailers as well. It’s players like Urban Outfitters and Whole Foods, not mom-and-pop record stores, that are driving the vinyl boom by marketing records as part of an organic lifestyle.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers in the U.S. AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Google … and Ad-Supported Search . The category that Google innovated 20 years ago – ad-supported search – now appears to be one of its scariest things. Consumers don’t Google for takeout anymore – they go straight to Grubhub. Apple … and the iPhone Customer.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Millennials have shown remarkable interest in these solutions, which allow consumers to finance purchases with specific terms when they check out online. Millennials lead in the early adoption of BNPL, especially older “ bridge millennials ,” or those aged 32 to 41 who tend to have more purchasing power than their younger counterparts.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Better malware defenses from Google Play? smartphone owners now download a grand total of zero apps per month, and most new app downloads are (unsurprisingly) concentrated in the millennial demographic. consumers – the tech giant may see better results in other global markets where smartphone adoption is still in its early stages.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

At 159 years old, it officially counts as a retail institution — one that hasn’t spent much of the last few years looking too healthy. Some have noted that Macy’s is a middle-market brand pitching to a middle class that no longer exists — or doesn’t exist in enough force to support its expansive business model.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Almost half – 43 percent of high-income millennials – said they would be more likely to visit a gas station if its app offered them convenience, loyalty and savings, according to the PYMNTS Paying At The Pump report. How are gas apps from both gas stations and comparison services tapping into this demographic, along with the overall market?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

What if we were to tell you that retail shopping isn’t dead? Google likes machine learning, having made the leap to buy Kaggle, which helps to create and promote contests focused on data and data science. Bricks and Mortar , Alive? That there may be a spark of life in the bricks and mortar model?

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2018

Millennials love to share. They are proportionally comfortable using gig economy services that provide these things, with about a third of millennials working some sort of gig position themselves. and Canada, with 250 trusted partners (independent contractors and mom-and-pop stores) providing gear in those markets.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

In the age of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and online banking, the old assumptions are shattered. Believe it or not, this is a slice of the market that in some cases has never opened the doors of a bricks-and-mortar branch bank or learned how to write a check. Offer millennials the human touch. And we have a few of our own. *

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

"Demand for refurbished products has surged, and by securing exclusive rights to inventory sold directly from the most popular manufacturers, eBay is changing the way people shop this category," said Jordan Sweetnam , senior vice president and general manager for eBay's North America market. The effort is loaded up with product guarantees.

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NCR

JUNE 24, 2016

Although the number of payments made via smartphone around the world has rocketed in recent years, there are still a few key hurdles that need to be overcome before it can reach full maturity, particularly in key markets such as the US. Based in the UK, Andy is responsible for the marketing for NCR’s payments solutions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

On its eCommerce website, the company accepts credit cards, PayPal and Google Pay at checkout. Beyond its website, the company’s products are in brick-and-mortar retailers such as Whole Foods and Gelson’s Market, among others. The Market. The company then crafted flavors around them to highlight certain functionalities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Beyond the basics, brands that are less diversified in the restaurant environment are suffering the same difficulties that the mediocre middle-retailers have faced in the age of digitization. After informally questioning his millennial sons, then more formally studying the phenomenon, Collins found the statistic was far from impossible.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

Amazon and its ever-expanding marketplace of goods presents a problem that looms large in retail: try to beat ’em or try to join them. It’s not impossible to compete, but Amazon’s most notable and intractable competitors are super-sized themselves: Walmart, Google, Target, Apple, etc.

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