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How Millennials Are Propelling Halloween To New Retail Heights

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Retailers are set to clean up this Halloween, as 2017 is looking to be a record-setter for consumer spending during the holiday. 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 billion, up 8.3 billion, up 8.3

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Is Bridal Retail Ready For Digital Disruption?

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And that 4-figure dress cost is interesting in light of another emerging trend in retail — the apparent emergence and flooding of the market with lower-cost and discount wedding dress options. Wedding dresses in the past, explained Brittanny Carter, industry analyst at IBISWorld, were sort of a tricky proposition for retailers.

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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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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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Will we see a cashless Britain by 2043?

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The research was based on figures showing a decline in cash use in the UK between 2004 and 2014, from 71 percent to 53 percent of transactions. But looking at this issue from the consumer side, do people really want to live in a world without cash? The decline of cash. Contactless accounted for £25 billion of this total, up from £7.75

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Could Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?

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Grubhub founders Matt Maloney and Mike Evans wanted to solve a simple problem in 2004: make it easy for consumers to order food from local restaurants and have it delivered. To understand why I think this way requires a reflection on the evolution of Grubhub over the years.

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