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APRIL 19, 2018

The storied department store is a bit more than a brand at this point. Some have noted that Macy’s is a middle-market brand pitching to a middle class that no longer exists — or doesn’t exist in enough force to support its expansive business model. A lot has been written in recent years about everything that has gone wrong at Macy’s.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While beauty conglomerates like L’Oréal are making acquisitions to become more tech-enabled, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) are pursuing the high margins in beauty through partnerships, consumer insights, e-commerce, and more. Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Looking ahead.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Particularly among younger consumers, the millennial and Gen Z “digital natives,” who, by the numbers, show a much greater affection for the physical store than their boomer parents and Gen X older siblings do. What Every Brand Needs For An Omnichannel Experience. So why aren’t digital natives shopping digitally?

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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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.”. For See You Tomorrow, Yerdle will power all backend operations including cleaning and repairing of product, inventory processing and fulfillment, pricing and authentication.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? or Idea Killers? Much to my chagrin.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Vodafone is the third-largest mobile operator in the U.K. Apple Needs To Diversify. Retailers like Kohl’s, Walmart and CVS are rolling out their own mobile-payment services and competing with Apple Pay, but it’s not because of overwhelming user adoption of mobile payments. But Apple needs to be quick. But In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Discogs operates as an online, crowdsourced avenue through which individuals can list their popular and rare audio recordings for sale. Forbes reports that Discogs owes its success to the vinyl resurgence and, though some millennials may not want to admit it, to big corporate retailers as well. Current Climate.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The lucrative “ bridge millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high-earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent reporting ownership of a voice-activated device and 55 percent of those owners using them to make a purchase.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. Rewards can help lure customers to a brand and keep them there. I think merchants and issuers alike see the value of rewards in creating a storyline for customers, enhancing the relationship with the brand and driving stronger loyalty,” he added.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

It’s not impossible to compete, but Amazon’s most notable and intractable competitors are super-sized themselves: Walmart, Google, Target, Apple, etc. For some retailers and brands, the risks outweigh the rewards: Sears, Best Buy, Nike and Chico’s are all big names that have added their shops to the Amazon digital marketplace.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

In 2015, the tech media was gaga over Snap and its ability to corral the so-called most valuable eyeballs in media: the millennial. Media companies, in the meantime, shoveled tens of millions into Snap in the hopes of selling to a generation whose brand loyalty is about as fleeting as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s affection for each of her nine husbands.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Sustainable commerce is having a moment — well, two or three of them given how millennials and even younger consumers champion the trend — and that applies to food waste and commerce involving meat and plants. Bruised fruits could become apple chips,” he said. One potential example of that?

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Some familiar names such as Amazon, Facebook and Apple helped propel that index, showing that enthusiasm for all things digital is unbowed. Going forward, Sears will sell its Kenmore-branded appliances on Amazon.com, announcing that its line of smart appliances will be integrated with the eCommerce giant’s website.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Of Merchant Link’s own client base, Carcillo said half are brand-name businesses, while the other half are smaller businesses, storefronts or franchisees. There’s a demographic push at work here, too, said Carcillo, which he defined as “millennial consumer groups.”. He said the firm is seeing across-the-board adoption of EMV.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Alphabet’s stock took a drubbing, and remains down after they reported a decline in the prices it charged advertisers, coupled with the increase in the cost of paying partners to distribute its search engine – some $9 billion to Apple alone , it’s been reported. Apple … and the iPhone Customer.

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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. Amazon Takes Its Bite Out of the Big Apple.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Video game manufacturers operated a different model of sorts: Create great games to get consumers to buy the hardware, then keep cranking out great games that would keep consumers on board and upgrading those devices. But for the last three decades or so, the business model did not change very much. Striking a New Strategic Path.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Then, at the product level, brands and presentation can be strong enough to create what Powell termed “a pull effect … If you think about the way traffic patterns work … if the consumer doesn’t think about [what’s on offer], then you’re kind of out of luck,” she said. What’s ahead?

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

That includes the two mobile giants who started this massive wave rolling to shore: Google with Android and Apple with its iOS-based mobile devices. All you millennials out there, ask your parents what they used to do as teenagers on Saturday afternoons. A LITTLE WALK DOWN SHOPPING’S MEMORY LANE. Should they focus on apps? With its 1.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

It’s not as if a person making the request for a tissue, pain reliever or bandage was specifically asking for a Kleenex, Bayer Aspirin or Band-Aid brand item. But, over many decades, these three brand names achieved such dominance in their categories that they became the most natural way for people to refer to all products in that category.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s Katie Kuehner-Hebert.

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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 6, 2020

One of the general topics at hand was what it might take to get more restaurants — including quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and fast-casual operations — to get in the game and update their technology, payment and guest engagement efforts for 2020. The stakes are too high to stay behind the pack for too long. Innovation Sparks. “You

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Diana Chin (HR & Operations). Demoing first with apple watch. Is this the first time we have seen an apple watch as apart of a demo today? Branded version is available. ^KT. Fiserv is meeting that need for FIs and millennials. Industry leader Fiserv is tackling the issue account opening for Millennials.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The workplace a millennial will most confuse with Silicon Valley – Live Oak Bank in North Carolina. The 2019 Industry Oh Sh*t Moment Award – Goes to Apple and Goldman Sachs for the Apple Card launch. The Branding Name-Thud Award – Goes to BB&T + Suntrust becoming Truist. Might be time to. Well done, sir!

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

Music is sold by the song — for those who still buy digital music — but more likely those songs are streamed, one song at a time, from services like Spotify and Apple Music. Today, many people, if they read the Grey Lady at all, open Apple News or Flipboard and get a selection of articles, including some free ones from the New York Times.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Smart, too, because instead of trying to be the bank, Google is leveraging the brand name, banking infrastructure and reputation for trust and stability of two banks, one of which is among the world’s largest global financial institutions, to acquire new users for that product and for Google Pay. Google’s Android operating system in the U.S.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. Even as the regulation pendulum swings back toward more limited oversight, how investment banks operate is fundamentally changing. Table of contents. The disruption of the IPO.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

For now, though, the focus is getting this accelerator effort off the ground — Walmart will hold the majority stake in that operation — and getting more consumers to sign up for Walmart MoneyCard accounts. Brand familiarity is important, as it can spark a vital sense of app security and reliability. Retail FinTech Trends. Indeed, 28.9

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

Housing mini Sephora stores within the department store chain’s larger footprint has allowed the retailer to both attract a younger (read: millennial), more product-savvy beauty consumer, while introducing its core customers to new products and brands. The strategy is also a win for the business, operationally speaking.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

True, the growth may be tepid, but during a deflationary environment, the firm has been grabbing the benefits of lower merchant fees post its switch from Amex to Citigroup via co-branded cards. And millennials are signing up for membership, too. All the better to showcase Google’s clean and now well-seasoned mobile operating system.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

Getting on board with this new technology is key for banks and financial institutions as they look for ways to attract millennial consumers. This year, the Digital Banking Tracker looked at millennials’ financial habits and why younger users favor digital banking solutions over traditional banking models. UNATTENDED RETAIL TRACKER.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2016

Dahl’s guess was that with some clever branding, cute packaging and a clever enough pitch, the Pet Rock would soon be a national sensation. From almost out of nowhere, the Niantic’s AR adaptation of an early ’90s cartoon has become a favorite among now adult millennials. The App Store Record(s).

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CB Insights

JULY 30, 2017

Already, over two dozen major corporates including Google, Apple and Mercedes Benz are hard at work building their own self-driving vehicles. Audi VP of brand strategy and digital business Sven Schuwirth has predicted that 20 years from now , many of these motel customers will instead choose to sleep in their driverless cars.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

I’d say there’s about as much of a correlation between our bad weather and the birth of those cute little twins as there is between Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon’s fortunes getting bigger and middle class wages getting smaller. Galloway’s narrative asserts that “the four” — Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google — should be broken up.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

In March 2019, US government officials relaxed privacy restrictions under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to allow Apple, Google, and Microsoft to facilitate virtual doctors’ visits through their existing chat and video apps, including FaceTime and Skype. Big tech companies quickly jumped on the opportunity.

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