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Millennials Are Buying More Gift Cards Than Ever — For Themselves

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Maybe millennials really are a self-centered bunch? New data suggests that they are buying more gift cards than ever before but then turning around and spending those cards on themselves. adults in June of this year to examine the shift in gift card consumers to prepaid and rechargeable cards issued directly from retailers.

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Here’s How Millennials Are Shopping This Holiday Season

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The saying that it’s better to give than receive might not be totally lost on millennials , because most millennials are planning on spending significantly more this holiday season than last year. So, what are millennials going to spend their money on this holiday season?

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Thoughts from American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015

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This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The retailer combines the in-store and app experience to enhance the customer buying process. A regional bank poll of millennials found that not one could name a community institution in their area.

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Boomers Vs. Millennials: Holiday Shopping … In September?

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It’s still technically summer for a few more days, but we already know how shoppers — Baby Boomers and millennials — are going to shop this holiday season. Retail sales in November and December are forecast to grow by just 1.3 Retail sales in November and December are forecast to grow by just 1.3 So, what are millennials buying?

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BJ’s On The Block, Amex’s Millennial Problem And Another Big Breach

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The long-suffering team at American Express has a new headache to handle — losing the love of those millennial customers. and yes, this looks like card data breach. For a time, it seemed as though the brand might be going public, but plans have apparently changed in light of the changing state of brick-and-mortar retail in the U.S.

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Lost Wallets: Mobile Wallets Stuck In Low Gear, Lagging Cards And Cash

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consumers who had shopped in a physical retail location during the previous week. percent in 2015 and 89.8 billion in sales in 2015 — a number that had grown to almost $47 billion by 2019 — the report states that “… sales projections are expected to climb modestly to $52.7 Et tu , Millennials? up from 39.3 percent to 80.2

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The Rise Of Card-on-File Commerce

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Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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