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How Millennials Are Propelling Halloween To New Retail Heights

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That growth appears to be driven by millennials, with responses to a recent Citibank poll indicating survey participants between the ages of 18 and 36 expect to spend 2.5 Increased millennial spending comes despite the fact that the demographic is the one that most needs to save money, CitiBank noted in the article. billion, up 8.3

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Let’s Get Physical: Millennials Place Fitness Center High on Hotel Priority List

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The millennial generation are sometimes thought of as a finicky bunch that’s hard to please. Last year, a Harris poll showed that 72 percent of millennials place a higher value on experiences than physical gifts. When millennials are seeking those experiences, hotel visits are naturally the next focal point during traveling.

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What You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Millennials

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Millennials as a generation are probably the most speculated and talked-about generation in human history. million of them, making the cohort born between 1981 and 2004 the largest living generation of Americans. More seriously, millennials are increasingly viewed as a generation a bit in peril. Millennials Bowl.

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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

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And then what happened in 2004-06 happened again. Consumer Demographics and Changing Customer Demands Remember all the pre-pandemic talk about millennials? You couldn't go to a conference without every presenter having millennial this or millennial that on their slide decks.

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Cereal Makers Aim To Move From Sweet Tooth To Healthy Profit

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And SpongeBob has been rescued from his 2004 Bikini Bottom home for a new cereal intro – because one of the trends that has never faded in the category is nostalgia. Playing into the sense of nostalgia surrounding cereals can hook Gen Z and millennial consumers, many of whom developed a sense of brand loyalty in childhood.”.

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How Madewell Is Growing Up, And Reshaping Its Parent Firm

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Crew since its glory days back in 2004. Crew in the affections of many millennials, but Wadle mostly dismisses that classification. Madewell’s appeal, she noted, expands far outside the millennial demographic, largely bolstered by its holistic approach to viewing consumers and their feedback.

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Taco Bell Embraces Fast Food’s New Decadent Reality

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In 2004, documentarian Morgan Spurlock released “Super Size Me.” It’s taking its Premium McWraps, the signature “healthy” item designed to keep foodie millennials from abandoning it, and 86ing it from the menu. ” Four years later, “Food, Inc.” ” hit the silver screen.