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Frugal Consumers Buying More Off-Brand, Off-Price Products

PYMNTS

This newfound cost consciousness is reshaping the retail industry in everything from spurring the rise of fast fashion at the expense of mall “anchor stores,” to the increasing popularity of off-brands or store brands in the supermarket, to the shift in the apparel business, to off-price retail outlets over full-priced department stores.

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Private Labels Have Their Roots In Coffee And Hats

PYMNTS

When the iconic Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was looking to brand its bulk Brazilian coffee in 1919, it asked consumers when they drank coffee. so the A&P decided to name its house brand of coffee Eight O’Clock. As JCPenney grew, so did its private brands. Their answer was 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M.,

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How Home Depot’s Hedging Against A Downturn With Digital

PYMNTS

It was, by all accounts, a good year — pushed by a strengthening economy, a warming eCommerce market and and an emerging generation of millennial homeowners suddenly in need of do-it-yourself home improvement supplies. billion investment in improvements across the brand. However, Home Depot was hit especially hard.

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Chapter 11 Watch: Hockey Chain Put On Ice, California Livin’ Goes Bust In Hong Kong

PYMNTS

Brick-and-mortar retail will forever remember the day that Nintendo released Pokémon GO , a mobile game that has caused millions of millennials to suddenly discover outside again. Not every brand that closes its doors did so last week in infamy, though. Store Closures. ” Layoffs. .” ” Layoffs.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

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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Fintech'ers Will Be Right on Branching. Unless Bankers Act.

Jeff For Banks

Look at the decline in branches since 2009. The red: millennials. And when my friend and fellow bank consultant Mary Beth Sullivan from Capital Performance Group in DC shared the post in the below pic on LinkedIn, it stirred a spirited rebuttal. Are branches dead? The conventional wisdom from the shouters would be yes.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.