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The Buyers: Millennials Love-Hate Chain Restaurants

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According to contradicting views, millennials are both hooked on chain restaurants while simultaneously killing their existence. Buffalo Wild Wings CEO Sally Smith says she believes casual dining has seen a decline in sales because of millennials. percent of people actively search social sites for food ideas. billion by 2020.

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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.

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Best New Financial Apps 2016, The List

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Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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MOD Pizza Tops Top 5 Fastest-Growing Restaurants

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Between 1999 and 2014, the fast-casual dining space grew by 550 percent and is projected to reach a revenue of $66.9 With millennials carrying much more student debt than prior generations, this could be a contributing factor in how much money and time they’re willing to spend on food. billion by 2020.

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

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” 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.

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Millennial’s Matter to Bank Marketing

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Believe it or not, this is a slice of the market that in some cases has never opened the doors of a bricks-and-mortar branch bank or learned how to write a check. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal states that the average Class of 2014 graduate with student-loan debt has to pay back some $33,000. Get out of the office.

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Taco Bell Embraces Fast Food’s New Decadent Reality

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It’s taking its Premium McWraps, the signature “healthy” item designed to keep foodie millennials from abandoning it, and 86ing it from the menu.