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Can Millennials Revive Call Center Commerce?

PYMNTS

Millennials have long borne the blame for a variety of problems in commerce, including the decline in popularity of diamonds and certain fast casual restaurants. Millennials could be helping to bring new life to call center commerce. That’s reportedly the case when it comes to luxury retail brand Gucci. Gucci Operation.

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? 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? or Idea Killers? A 26% decline.

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Walmart’s Been On A Buying Spree. Which Company Could It Acquire Next?

CB Insights

Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. Attract higher-income customers by bringing in premium brands. Below, we look 11 startups that might be on Walmart’s radar, divided between: Brands.

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Disrupting The CPG Industry: How Brands Can Adapt To The Future Of Packaged Goods

CB Insights

In this analysis, we’ll explore the immediate and long-term challenges facing the CPG industry, as well as the business strategies that CPG brands are using to adapt. Pinnacle Foods, which owns Vlasic pickles and other brands, has been targeted by activist investor Jana Partners. Short-term challenges. Medium-term challenges.

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

CB Insights

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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Why The Next Big Connected Commerce Play Is Television

PYMNTS

That might not be a crazy assumption: Reports from Nielsen reveal that television viewership by that demographic has declined more than 40 percent since 2010 and is off 11 percent year over year for the older half of millennials aged 25 to 34. Popeil started buying remnant ads that would run at odd hours at $7.50 a minute in the early 1960s.

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AI Will Put 10 Million Jobs At High Risk — More Than Were Eliminated By The Great Recession

CB Insights

However, Foxconn has fallen short of its 2011 forecast of installing 1 million robots in its factories in 3 years. Early-stage food-preparation startups using robotics and AI are proliferating, and operating in both B2B and B2C models. Robot-run warehouses are already in operation. in funding. warehouse workers.