PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2016

A new study by The NPD Group found that anything related to health and wellness ­­— like wearable technology , basketball gear, sweats and active bottoms (AKA exercise pants), running products, outdoor sports and toys, running gear, portable beverageware — were among the fastest-growing retail categories between Dec. 2014 and Dec.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

It was a record-breaking first quarter for retailers in the U.S. According to a report issued by Moody’s earlier this week, the retail sector managed to notch a record number of defaults during Q1 2013, with nine retailers defaulting on their debt. As a result of the series of retail fails, the default rate of high-risk U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Today, the “membership has its privileges” mantra is at the core of the latest face-off between the two retail behemoths vying for an increasing portion of consumer spend: Walmart and Amazon. consumer seems happy to test the waters — and none more so than the coveted bridge millennials. But these results also suggest that the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

More than 170 restaurant brands brought in $200 million — or more — in U.S. Yet Mark Kalinowski of Kalinowski Equity Research said that some brands are growing particularly fast, CNBC reported. Between 1999 and 2014, the fast-casual dining space grew by 550 percent and is projected to reach a revenue of $66.9 sales during 2017.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Driving sales this year has been good weather, which has kept foot traffic up (a challenge in 2014), though parents are increasingly looking only for value, especially millennial parents. All in, back-to-school sales rose 2 percent in July, compared with 1 percent growth in 2015 and 2014 and a 0.2

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

A number of major retail studies have shown that millennial consumers value the sustainability of brands and products when making purchases. In short, HowGood literally answers the question, “How good is blank [insert product, brand, or store location here]?” in two rounds, including a seed round back in 2014.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

” Retailers have come to recognize the incredible marketing opportunity presented by the multi-weekend music festival in Southern California. Todd Smith, president and CMO at Sonic, told MarketWatch that this campaign comes from the company’s long experience with the millennial demographic. Is it though?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

Prices of the international food retail group’s stock closed out on Friday at €20.50, up 0.94 A number of major retail studies have shown that millennial consumers value the sustainability, health value and organic nature of brands and products when making purchases. At the time of writing, WFM was down 2.38

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

When Amazon, the largest retailer by market cap, says that it had its best day ever , it’s hard not to call that a sizzle – and then some. We understand that sometimes brands do things in an effort to get a little boost so that people notice. Pokémon GO: Pet Rock or Opportunity To Rock Retail? Amazon Sellers . As prove by.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

But the brand could only guarantee that it would fill orders through the site until June. “We The news comes about four years after Weddington Way closed on another $9 million in funding, in August of 2014. Crew decided to close its wedding-dress business, Gap Inc. The investment round brought the company’s total funding to $11.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

And Phillips, on the eve of founding his dessert delivery on-demand business SugarMoo in 2014, had two problems to solve. Dubai’s status as a highly international city with travelers from all over the world with differing palates, he noted, plays to the brand’s strength. In a day, an average of 100 orders come in.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Ten years later, the company continues to disrupt the diamond mining and traditional jewelry retail space with its lab-grown diamonds — offering customers a diamond alternative they can truly feel good about buying. For diamond mining companies and many traditional jewelry retailers, this technology comes as a major threat.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. This year in the US, JP Morgan launched mobile banking app Finn and Goldman Sachs’ retail banking arm Marcus crossed 1.5M Incumbents Play Catch-Up.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

Fashion is largely fueling the rise in footwear sales, as many consumers, especially millennials, “prefer matching their footwear with their daily outfits,” according to the TechNavio report. For instance, during 2014, Adidas entered a 10-year sponsorship agreement with Manchester United for $1.13 billion for advertising their brand.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

At a recent gathering in Las Vegas, Wenig said during a presentation that he would seek to grab 100 million new shoppers, among them the much-coveted demographic known as millennials, consumers that the newswire said might have “only a passing familiarity with eBay.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

It has been a particularly grim retail season for the mall staples that defined landscape of the late ’90s and early 2000s. Karen Webster described this scenario in 2014 as The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral. “So Same-store sales in retail locations were up on average 1 percent from the same time in 2015.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Pundits prophesy a cashless society — and indeed, vast swaths of consumers are migrating to digital and mobile channels for many of their banking needs, as shown by a decline in the number of brick-and-mortar retail bank branches. Millennials are taking a mobile-first approach to banking, driving that transformation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

That fundamental difference in what counts as a best-case scenario has caused millennials to turn away from revolving credit products, Afterpay Co-founder and CEO Anthony Eisen told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. That means the platform refers a substantial amount of business to the retailers with which it works.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

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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Independent Banker

AUGUST 9, 2016

Statistics are especially compelling for those trying to attract and maintain the millennial segment. As a group, millennials switch from their primary bank at a pace nearly double the average of other age groups, and they point to high fees and poor loyalty programs as the top reasons why they are dissatisfied with their banks (3).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

It can be both a blessing and a burden being America’s oldest (active) automobile brand. So for Buick, a brand that has produced nameplates like Roadmaster, Skylark and LeSabre, the blessing of a long life – while contemporaries like Mercury and Pontiac have long since hit the highway to heaven – is also the burden of popular perception.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Amazon’s advertising space currently sells space for brand logos, photos and descriptions of products, which are basically the equivalent of static billboards. New York-based eCommerce research firm Marketplace Pulse found shoppers aren’t any more inclined to buy the Amazon brands , even when the company highlights them in search results.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Amazon’s next big move could be in beauty retail. Retail partnerships to add value for SMB clients. Retail partnerships to add value for SMB clients. Messenger taps brands for beauty bots.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

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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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2016

If you’re a retailer or a brand, it seems as though eCommerce and the rise of smartphones and mobile shopping have made your customers more cost-savvy and price-aware than ever before. Well, the rise of eCommerce and mobile shopping doesn’t have to mean doom and gloom for luxury brands or retailers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

The company first introduced mobile ordering capabilities in 2016 through its own branded app, an offering that was originally part of an effort to increase what the company refers to as “off-premise sales” — or, as average people are more likely to call it, “take-out.”. Appetite for App-based Dining.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

Millennial and Gen Z stereotypes often revolve around being tied to smartphones or computer screens, but these consumers love the outdoors just as much as their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. That also means retailers are missing out on selling the high-margin specialized equipment that drives much of their annual sales.

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NCR

JUNE 14, 2016

As expected the younger generation, millennials, are less concerned about move compared to those older. There are more than 70,000 ATMs installed in the UK – an all-time high (Retail Banking Research 2015). Million (Retail Banking Research 2015). The majority think the 1p coin, 2p coin then £50 note will go at some point.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. One assessment of recently flat mobile banking adoption comes from a Federal Reserve report, titled “Consumers and Mobile Financial Services 2014,” published in March.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Hey brand, want a better way to engage with your customer? And Messenger and Marcus’ big bet is that its chatbots will provide a mechanism for brands to strike up those conversations with their community faster, cheaper and as well – if not better – than a live person can do now. In 2014, Facebook began to do something about it.

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Tech and Finance

JULY 13, 2016

Retail Banking Customer Satisfaction Study from J.D. Jim Marous, co-publisher of The Financial Brand, said the J.D. The big banks ranked better across multiple segments, including the coveted millennials, emerging affluents, and minorities. The 2016 U.S.

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Regional Mobile Millennials Study 28

PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

There were problems in the $7 billion industry — markups could go as high as 100 percent because the playing field was dominated by a handful of highly consolidated manufacturers and retailers. On its first day (April 22, 2014), Casper learned this conventional wisdom was not right. And no one liked the shopping process.

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New York City Millennials United States Retail 156

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

This marketing promotion seeks to recreate the success of the brand’s 2014–2015 U.S. The app will also allow users to record a 15-second “digital lip-sync video” that can be shared on social media using the hashtag #ShareaCoke, the brand told Ad Age.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Around the middle of the twentieth century, there was what The Atlantic called a “Cambrian explosion” of brands. Tide, Crest, Band-Aid, Lipton, and other branded packaged goods — and the conglomerates that manufactured them — reigned. Store brands from retailers were seen as down-budget choices. Why the shift?

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