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Baby Boomers Vs. Millennials: Eerily Similar?

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While most millennials were brought up in the age of the computer, baby boomers can remember a time when they weren’t surrounded by technology. It’s a peculiar dichotomy to compare millennials to their parents’ generation, the baby boomers. percent, millennials (who are in part to blame for this) aren’t the main contributing factor.

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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. Think blazers.

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Nordstrom Tempts Millennials With Snapchat Presence

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In an interview with Fortune , Nordstrom Director of Social Media Bryan Galipeau explained how the company’s latest pivot toward Snapchat promotional content has seen a boost in traffic for the retailer. “We wanted to be really engaging and enable them to participate in our brand.

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Banking for the Digital Generation: Attracting & Retaining Millennials

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Coming of age during the last recession and being subjected to the barrage of headlines about financial executives misbehaving, many Millennials are distrustful of established financial brands and institutions. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials.

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Marketers Focus On Mobile Shopping For The Holidays

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Mobile coupons are still popular, especially among millennials. For millennials, that number is 90 percent. EMarketer also found that nearly two-thirds of millennial internet users searched social networks for coupons in the third quarter of 2015.

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How You Handle Fraud Will Make Millennials Drop or Love You

FICO

Millennials, now the largest demographic group in America, are possibly the most misunderstood, elusive market ever, a notion underscored by The Wall Street Journal ’s article about the existence of $20,000-per-hour “Millennial consultants.” Millennials reward positive fraud outcomes. In Millennial parlance, that’s “harsh.”.

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Snapchat’s Surprise Surge

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This comes according to a recent YouGov report which determined that the women of generation Y love all types of social media, including Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest, but that they are using Snapchat far more than their male counterparts these days. So what happened?