PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

Driven by younger customers, such as millennials and teens, casual luxury is bolstering sales of luxury apparel, handbags and footwear. The change in behavior is due, in part, to social media sites such as Instagram. In Asia, China is projected to have growth of 20 to 22 percent in 2018.

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FICO

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This year, in the spirit of efficiency, I’m combining both predictions and resolutions by forecasting that in 2018, my wallet is going to go on a diet; it will definitely become slimmer as physical (plastic) credit cards are replaced with payment apps on my smart phone. My Predictions for 2018. Will we do so this year?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. They are increasingly seeing the upper-end of their prime demographic, a group PYMNTS titled bridge millennials. population.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. 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. Pundits identify bellwether states to predict election outcomes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Text messaging, social media, Pinterest and memes have all been offered up as avatars of destruction — and the general consensus seems to be that the death of conversation is a direct result of the digital age and probably has something to do with millennials. Kirk Bresniker, chief architect of Hewlett Packard Labs for HPE.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

One of the takeaways from the Platform Economy Playbook is that amidst tech innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) to help personalize clothing selection and speed up delivery and social media-powered commerce, customer service has become a differentiator. Ann Taylor and New York and Company were early participants.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Over a year of research, development and beta testing, Shopkick Grocery was found to increase consumer basket sizes to $59 in grocery, drugstore and retail spend per trip versus the $32 national average. Retail brands and partners for Shopkick include Best Buy, Clorox, Nestle and Starbucks, among others. supermarket like Kroger.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Even people without a mind for business remember that motto as one of the guiding principles of retail and other forms of commerce — absorbed, perhaps, in a high school class or via any number of articles, TV shows, commercials or bits of pop culture that have riffed on that theme. Location , location, location. Instagram Role.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Going into the 2018 holiday shopping season, there were worries about a shortage of live Christmas trees — as is the case with all agriculture, farmers who grow trees are under often relentless pressure to sell their land for development — but that does not seem to have materialized. Christmas Tree Landscape. consumers bought some 27.4

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

As the prominent global video-commerce retailer, and North America’s third-largest mobile and eCommerce retailer, the combined company will be well-positioned to help shape the next generation of retailing.”. If you go to other online retailers, it’s a transaction. When you come to QVC, it’s a social experience.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. According to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. Social Media. Online Resale.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2018

And while bargain retailers charge vanishingly small amounts for their goods, all of those little sales add up to some pretty amazingly large figures for bargain-hunting consumers. “We Part of it is a savvy social media-based distribution model through WeChat. We can’t remember [the] last time we left without spending $100!”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2018

While the firm is small today, as of February 2018 it snapped up $10.8 We leverage on social media trends to attract travelers to choose the unconventional packages and influence others to do the same.”. million in a Series B funding round to expand its operations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Facebook reported on their website that their teams have made progress: They removed 837 million pieces of spam in Q1 2018 before anyone reported it, disabled 583 million fake accounts “within minutes” of going online and removed 24 million inappropriate pictures related to violence and nudity. million such pieces. eBay … and eBay.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

21, the last Saturday shopping day before Christmas 2019, has been confirmed as the single biggest retail sales day in U.S. According to retail research firm Customer Growth Partners, consumers on Super Saturday spent a total of $34.4 More customers are shopping online, as well, as retailers offer improved web platforms. (58

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The wellness trends is affecting everything from the way gyms operate to how retailers design clothing to how smart cities are designed. Notably, millennials are more lifestyle-focused, placing a greater value on health and wellness over material goods than ever before. Meet Maya, our hypothetical wellness-focused millennial consumer.

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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. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. WALMART’S GOALS.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Until 1939 that is, when the last Thursday in November fell on the 30th and retailers flooded President Franklin Delano Roosevlents office and begged him to consider moving the date. There was the small matter of a raging depression — and retailers argued that the shortened shopping season could do them in. The Sky Is Falling .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

A good education on this online retail trend — an education backed by original data — comes from Azita Habibi, business development lead at Braintree , a payments services firm owned by PayPal. Simply put, said Frieden, the car now “becomes an extension of the consumer’s home” across retail, fuel and convenience stores.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Amazon’s next big move could be in beauty retail. Retail partnerships to add value for SMB clients. Google UK hosted its inaugural “Connected Beauty” event in October 2018, bringing speakers from YouTube, Sephora, indie beauty brands, and more to discuss trends across consumer beauty product discovery.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Daniel Loeb, manager of activist hedge fund Third Point LLC, led an investment of roughly $3B into Nestle in 2017 and launched an attack on the company’s leadership in mid-2018. Retailers move downstream. These e-commerce retailers are also well positioned to spot gaps in the market. Investing in vertical integration.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. How are food leaders adapting in 2018? Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” the Future of food report. Photo credit: Tasting Table.

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

GET the 54-page retail TRENDS report. Download the free report to learn about the biggest emerging trends in retail and strategies to watch for 2019. Fueled by social media, consumers want to get a hold of the latest trends as quickly as possible, and retailers must rapidly increase production to meet demand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

The retail giant bought Bonobos and ModCloth in 2017 and plus-size brand Eloquii in 2018 in a bid to compete with Amazon. Jet was supposed to reach urban dwellers and millennials, but it failed to drive traffic. billion in China over the next 10 years to upgrade logistics, per the retailer’s social media account.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. For example, in 2018, 18% of American doctors reported treating a patient via telemedicine. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce ranks. But it only accounted for about 6% of the wider grocery retail market.

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