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Are Millennials Really Killing Canned Tuna, Too?

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The millennial path of destruction allegedly continues, with those young consumers now taking blame for the decline in the popularity of canned tuna — a product that joins a casualty list that already includes diamonds and restaurants such as Applebee’s. Before we get to that, let’s review the newest charges leveled against millennials.

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For Macy’s and Men’s Wearhouse, No Millennial Tux and Tails Tailwind

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It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms. Now that seems to be true even in fashion.

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Cotopaxi And Selling Outdoor Gear For The Greater Good

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But Smith was committed, and believed that among outdoor enthusiasts — particularly millennials like himself — a digitally-native brand with a story to tell and a unique way of pursuing its core mission would have an awful lot of appeal. “My Its first offerings for consumers were backpacks. The llama was bought off of Craigslist.

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SugarMoo And Delivering Dessert On Demand In Dubai

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And Phillips, on the eve of founding his dessert delivery on-demand business SugarMoo in 2014, had two problems to solve. But bigger than the cupcake-replacement innovation, perhaps, was the realization five years ago that the dessert on demand market in Dubai was basically non-existent — but not unwanted.

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Walmart+ And Amazon Prime Face Off As Consumers Decide Who Gets Their Business

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consumer seems happy to test the waters — and none more so than the coveted bridge millennials. According to PYMNTS survey data, nearly three times as many bridge millennials are Amazon Prime members as Walmart+ members. But three in 10 bridge millennials already report having both, just a month in. Those are the 47 million U.S.

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Coachella’s Contextual Commerce: The Good, The Bad And The Flower Crown Ugly

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But setting up shop on the edge of the festival and hawking blatantly branded products is a little too gauche for Coachella attendees who want to preserve the festival’s sanctity (whether it ever existed or not), which leads more than a few companies to turn to social media and the tricks of contextual commerce. Is it though?

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Physical Retail Isn’t Dead – The Physical Store Model Is

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Aided and abetted by mobile devices, apps and payments and logistics innovations have substantially improved the consumer’s digital shopping experiences. Amazon started with zero customers, zero brand awareness and a very ugly website with a clunky user experience, by today’s standards. I guess every sad story needs a bad guy.

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