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How Do Customers — And Retailers — React To Tax Returns?

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For all the johnny-come-latelies who spend the hours before midnight on April 17 scrambling to submit their tax forms, there are millions more Americans who are sitting pretty with their tax refunds already in hand. It’s a peculiar part of tax season. While a National Retail Federation survey found that 65.5

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Zillow: Getting Millennials Into The Real Estate Game

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Millennials are never, ever going to buy homes. Why millennials are never going to buy homes is more of a jump ball. According to the National Federation of Retailers, 81 percent of millennials report at least aspiring to homeowners as hip, even if they aren’t there yet.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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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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Not Down For The Count, Cash Still Counts For Plenty

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Brazil and Mexico — the total amount in cash payments for the region was $3 trillion in 2015, with weighted average cash use at 14 percent of GDP, with an estimated increase, annually, of 4 percent through 2020 in absolute dollars but a decline in percentage of GDP by 1.2 Turning to the Americas — defined as the U.S.,

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Soda Wars Summer

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This marketing promotion seeks to recreate the success of the brand’s 2014–2015 U.S. Not one to lose out on that sweet, Lee Greenwood-based revenue from millennials without a fight, the Pepsi to Coca-Cola’s Coke — AKA Pepsi — is launching its own interactive campaign this summer called “PepsiMojis.”.

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The Dawn Of A Cashless Global Economy?

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There are issues of transaction security, criminal elements, tax evasion, free flow of capital, access to goods and services and the ability to fully participate in the global economy. That would be millennials, ages 18–29, with 64 percent saying they prefer to use cards even for transactions under $5.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. Department stores used to dominate retail , and shopping was always done in a physical store. The internet was something in the early 2000s that most retailers dismissed as never amounting to much, so they ignored it.

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