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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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Pokemon The Surprise Retail Sizzle Of The Summer?

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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. Pokémon GO: Pet Rock or Opportunity To Rock Retail? The Summer’s Best Retail Opportunity? . We found one gigundo sizzle and three moderately sized fizzles. Amazon Sellers .

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For Visa, She’s Next Is What’s Next

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The announcement comes as, since 2014, more than 163 million women have launched businesses across the globe, at a rate that outpaces that of businesses launched by men. These entrepreneurs would like to sharpen their social media skills to broaden reach and grow their firms. To that end, Visa said on Tuesday (Jan.

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How Urban Outfitters Was A Q1 Sleeper Success Story

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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.