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Retailers, Here Are This Year’s Most Important Halloween Trends

PYMNTS

And that, according to new data released by the National Retail Federation , is precisely the point, as Halloween is a less “traditional” holiday than most and therefore more open to different interpretations for how to celebrate it. Millennials are also the top costume spenders, spending $42.39 percent from 2006.

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? Maybe those millennial futurists don't remember this. Didn't even exist in 2006. Much to my chagrin. When they started in 1995, they sold books.

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The Wonder Of Wegmans

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They were aware of what millennials wanted before the millennials even got there and that ‘shopping’ didn’t mean filling your cart with canned peas; it meant hanging out, learning about food and eating it.”. Wegmans was prescient,” on grocery analyst noted. And of course what Wegmans stocks and how it prices are a big factor.

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12 Industries Experts Say Millennials Are Killing — And Why They’re Wrong

CB Insights

Every few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials are killing home ownership. Millennials aren’t shunning luxury goods; they’re just renting them instead of buying. Millennials are in debt.

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4Moms: Predicting Parent Pain Points

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The current incarnation is the overly fussy millennial mom who has custom-color-change bath beads to test the baby’s water — or the urban lumberjack dad with smart-fabric kids’ clothes that allow him to monitor his toddler’s core temperature while they take their daily walk in the park together. It’s neat, I guess, but so what.”.

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Top 5 Risk Analytics Posts: From Rising FICO Scores to Alt-Data

FICO

For the first time since we’ve been tracking these stats, the average national FICO Score reached the 700 threshold — some 10 points above what it was just prior to the recession in October 2006.”. Millennials and Credit: Are We Missing the Real Story? Read the full post.

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Sales Of Existing US Residences Hit Record High In 2020

PYMNTS

The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said on Friday (Jan. 22) that existing-home sales increased in December, while home sales for last year reached their highest point since 2006, according to a press release. At the same time, millennial consumers have dramatically increased the clip of their home purchasing.

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