PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Shoppers left approximately $34 billion worth of abandoned goods in their online carts in 2018 — the equivalent of 7 percent of all digital commerce conducted that year. Cost is a major concern for consumers, especially for millennials and members of Gen Z, who tend to view spending differently than older generations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The term “thinking outside of the box” originates from advice that puzzle management consultants famously gave to clients in the 1970s and 1980s to encourage creative thinking. Throw out everything you’ve ever learned about what makes a consumer loyal to a brand.” – Loyalties New One Percenters. AKA thinking outside of the box.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Bridge millennials own slightly more devices than the average consumer in our study: six devices compared to the roughly five that most consumers own. This group of 60 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

29) that it has inked a long-term partnership with Fanatics, the sports fan brand that makes team and player merchandise and operates NFLShop.com, NBAStore.com and MLBShop.com. In a blog post , Eric O’Toole, general manager of sports and fitness for Walmart U.S. Walmart announced Tuesday (Jan. Beginning Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Last month, the financial institution (FI) announced it was expanding the Sapphire credit card brand into new areas of personal finance, including checking accounts. According to a company report, the Sapphire Reserve card is popular among millennials because of the generous rewards points, which cater to their desire to travel.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

It has around $12 billion in assets under management. billion in 2018, up from under $1 billion in 2013. The company teamed up with Coinbase for a zero-fee branded cryptocurrency trading platform, and there are plans for a credit card by the end of the year. It also handles management services and mortgage refinances.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

A recent report from the CBRE Group found 56 of the largest 100 warehouse leases in the first half of 2018 were with eCommerce firms and third-party logistics providers. The supply chain arms race is as competitive as it’s ever been,” said Adam Mullen, CBRE’s senior managing director of industrial and logistics.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This means that the share of consumers making purchases who do so via voice assistant is up 42 percent since 2018 and up 10 percent since 2019.”. percent of Generation Z consumers have bought new food and beverage brands during the pandemic … while 47.7 percent bought new retail product brands.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

With over 200 million monthly views and millions of subscribers globally, izo , the parent of media company DanceOn , is a digital network devoted to original dance-centric video and music content for millennials and gen-z audiences. Complex Business.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The goal is not to wholly replace credit but to find methods that connect with credit- or debt-shy consumers during the holidays, noted Nick Kaplan, president of fashion brand Fashion To Figure. Kaplan expects consumers to leverage BNPL for holiday purchases, as it will allow them to free up their cash flows and better manage spending.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

consumer seems happy to test the waters — and none more so than the coveted bridge millennials. According to PYMNTS survey data, nearly three times as many bridge millennials are Amazon Prime members as Walmart+ members. But three in 10 bridge millennials already report having both, just a month in. Those are the 47 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

Founded in 2018, Joko’s loyalty program already works with dozens of major retailers including McDonald’s, Uber, Starbucks, Zara and more. Our users are looking for a reward — and loyalty experience that is simple, customized and gamified, and that is what we have managed to create with Joko,” added Nicolas Salat-Baroux, co-founder of Joko.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

As a pure-play digital bank, Chime offers as its primary product an entirely mobile/digital banking application that gives customers access to a network-branded debit card and a savings account. The brand has been popular with young professionals. Toward that end, Chime acquired consumer credit startup Pinch late in 2018.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

Following the quarterly check-in with parent firm L Brands , which also owns Bath & Body Works and the youth-oriented PINK lingerie brand, the reviews have not been kind. L Brands slashed its earnings estimates by 8 percent. For fiscal 2018, L Brands now expects earnings per share to fall within a range of $2.70

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

PYMNTS recently caught up with Paige Cohen, manager at Instagram to learn more about Instagram’s updates to their shopping features. As reported by PYMNTS earlier , the company has announced Explore, a shopping channel that lets users shop from the brands they follow as well as find new brands. Window Shopping.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If there was any stigma left about used clothing it may have been erased last week as Nordstrom put its high-end brand on what it calls “re-commerce.”. The company says 56 million women bought secondhand items in 2018, up from 44 million a year earlier. We like the handle. Nordstrom is taking a multichannel approach.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

QVC President and CEO Mike George said when the deal was announced,“By creating the leader in discovery-based shopping, we will enhance the customer experience, accelerate innovation, leverage our resources and talents to further strengthen our brands, and redeploy savings for innovation and growth. Signs of Traction.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As we enter 2018, we are working diligently to improve execution with a focus on conversion, gross margin and inventory management,” CEO Robert Niblock said in a statement. housing market and the increasing transition of the millennial generation into home ownership mode. percent, again ahead of the 3.1 percent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

Or, at least, that’s the pessimist’s view — a more optimistic estimate puts the odds somewhere around 1 in 128 billion, which is a much more manageable statistical impossibility. It even managed to garner a $3.1 Just in time for the Ides of March, the 50-year-old brand announced it was shutting or selling all of its stores in the U.S.,

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

Every few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials are killing home ownership. Millennials aren’t shunning luxury goods; they’re just renting them instead of buying. Millennials are in debt.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Deirdre Ives, CEO and managing director at Wirecard North America, noted that when it comes to innovation, issuers face challenges in meeting the needs and expectations of a diverse populace of users spanning borders and cultures. That’s especially true among younger users such as millennials.

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Payments Innovation Examples FDIC 189

PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Grubhub made news a couple weeks ago when it simultaneously delivered a very strong Q2 2018 earnings report and announced the acquisition of LevelUp. In February of 2018, Yum! Brands franchisees who are now being asked to get on board the Grubhub delivery platform. It’s where I grabbed this image, in fact.

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Online Branding Mobile Millennials 125

PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2018

While the firm is small today, as of February 2018 it snapped up $10.8 Chen said the goal in developing the platform was to offer an easy to plug into management system that allows all types of suppliers, big or small, to easily communicate with customers and manage orders without any IT investment.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Robinhood offers an easy-to-use app to trade stocks commission-free, making the company popular with millennials. Online games platform Roblox recently pushed its planned initial public offering from 2020 to 2021 after Airbnb and DoorDash’s big first-day pops convinced management that an overheated IPO would mostly benefit speculators.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

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. Download the free report to find out how fintech is shaping the future of wealth management and investing. get the REPORT on next generation investors.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

CPG corporates like PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, and Campbell, for example, have invested in and acquired a number of brands focused on healthy snacking , while personal care incumbents like P&G and Unilever have backed natural and organic beauty brands. Meet Maya, our hypothetical wellness-focused millennial consumer.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

But the data indicates that for an increasing number of users, debt is not being managed correctly. Despite the decline in confidence, consumers’ expectations remain at historically strong levels, suggesting economic growth will continue well into 2018,” she said. percent in 2018 — up from the 4.32 Rising Consumer Debt.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials.

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Cards Course Study New York 169

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Two major news items have came out of the world of wellness this month: Hershey announced a $420M acquisition of Pirate Brands, the maker of Pirate’s Booty. Hershey will operate Pirate Brands under Amplify Snack Brands, the healthy snacking business it acquired in Dec’17 for $1.6B. The guilt reduction economy.

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Branding Maine Tools Strategy 41

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

In an ecosystem in which success is defined by scale and time to market, it’s no longer good enough to have a great product, a well-known brand or a compelling technology. It’s why I wrote at the start of 2018 that the year’s power brokers will be those who can use their scale, reach and momentum to drive innovation forward.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2018

Driven by Lore, Walmart acquired e-commerce platform Shoebuy in January 2017, followed by outdoor apparel retailer Moosejaw in February, womenswear site Modcloth in March, direct-to-consumer premium menswear brand Bonobos in June, and last-mile delivery startup Parcel in September. Increase in-store efficiency. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recent searches, saved places and flights you’re tracking are added automatically to your trips when you’re signed into your Google account,” wrote Richard Holden, VP of product management and travel at Google, in a blog post. travelers feel that brands should tailor their information based on personal preferences or past behaviors.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recent searches, saved places and flights you’re tracking are added automatically to your trips when you’re signed into your Google account,” wrote Richard Holden, VP of product management and travel at Google, in a blog post. travelers feel that brands should tailor their information based on personal preferences or past behaviors.”.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Messenger taps brands for beauty bots. Instagram powers digital beauty brands. Google’s search data helps brands understand beauty shopper preferences. YouTube powers beauty influencers.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2018

See the investment trends, top deals, and active investors in Q2 2018. These companies come from diverse fintech backgrounds — P2P money transfers, wealth management, lending — but all are rushing to create checking account alternatives within their pre-existing products. Source: Bloomberg , June 2018. How the products work.

Cards 71

Cards Fintech UX Strategy 71

PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

According to a report issued by Moody’s earlier this week, the retail sector managed to notch a record number of defaults during Q1 2013, with nine retailers defaulting on their debt. Retail’s outlook, on the other hand – particularly for large, legacy brands like Sears – is predicted to have a bit more darkness left before its dawn.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Asia is highly competitive, with tech giants like Ant Financial and Tencent’s WeChat actively dominating mobile payments and expanding their reach in financial services across lending, wealth management, and insurance. This includes targeting the underbanked/unbanked, millennials, students, kids, freelancers, and early adopters of blockchain.

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