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

JANUARY 31, 2018

Reviews are just one tool in Amazon’s arsenal — and the playbook of other eCommerce retailers — to reduce customer doubts and encourage consumers to complete the checkout process. But not all retailers offer these features. User reviews can make or break products that appear on eCommerce retail websites like Amazon.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

It was a genius marketing campaign but also oddly prescient, because, to retailers, the back-to-school shopping season really is like the second coming of the Christmas shopping season, or about as close as they can get to it, as it remains the second-largest retail season of the entire calendar year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2016

The startup drew jealous ire from competitor Facebook/Instagram , success from millennials and confused befuddlement from baby boomers this year, along with a $1.81 This year wasn’t the worst for Apple … but it wasn’t particularly great either. billion funding round back in May. It seems to be working for it. Oh, chatbots.

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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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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. Amazon’s next big move could be in beauty retail. Private-label products.

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Google Apple Industry Branding 72

PYMNTS

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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Payments Google Apple Innovation 196

Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

Like millions of others, I enjoy having a cup of coffee at various retail coffee establishments. Enhancements start with mobile app-based personalization such as social currency, rewards programs, and probably most importantly, streamlined service that lets you get your beverage faster than ever before.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

In the age of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and online banking, the old assumptions are shattered. A whopping 63 percent of millennials (ages 18 to 29) don’t have a credit card, according to a survey commissioned by Bankrate and compiled by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Offer millennials the human touch.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

That, he said, isn’t about 100 different apps stretching across 100 different retailers, but instead, there should be strong integration across platforms, such as the Apple Pay wallet, where digital cards pop up automatically on a user’s home screen when they are walking into a merchant.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2016

” And while different apps have enjoyed varying levels of review praise, consumer love and time in the spotlight of buzz generation, fast food apps in general don’t have the sort of chart topping power that say social media, messaging or ride-sharing apps tend to. How did it do it?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2017

Just as marketers started to get the hang of this newfangled “millennial” crowd, the next generation comes along to shake things up with different values, preferences and spending patterns. Some call them Generation Z, some call them post-millennials. The latter this isn’t an option for retailers and brands, however.

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Millennials social media Survey Video 104

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 15, 2016

Available only via mobile app, imaginBank is a new initiative by Spanish bank, Caixabank targeting millennials. And one in every three Spanish millennials is a customer of their bank. The mobile app for imaginBank is available as a free download from Google Play (Android) or from the Apple App Store (iOS). CaixaBank serves 2.9

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Millennials Mobile social media ATM 12

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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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Demoing first with apple watch. Is this the first time we have seen an apple watch as apart of a demo today? Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. Svyatoslav Ostrovsky (Head of Retail Digital Business). Retail for a piece. Virtual reality?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

The Ad Age story notes that it will also be supported by TV advertising, social media efforts and a summer-long “experiential” tour. The app will also allow users to record a 15-second “digital lip-sync video” that can be shared on social media using the hashtag #ShareaCoke, the brand told Ad Age.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One of the most recent examples of that movement comes from Walmart , the venerable retail chain locked in mortal combat with Amazon, and Green Dot, the 20-year-old payment services provider that has managed to not only survive in a cutthroat industry, but innovate and thrive. Retail FinTech Trends. Omnichannel Power.

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 20, 2016

Millennials, in particular, are embracing mobile payments with open arms: 44% of Millennials would rather use their mobile phones than cash to pay for smaller ticket items. 50% of Millennials want mobile payments because they want faster transactions. 85% say they are open trying new banking and payment technologies.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In the age of Twitter, Apple Pay and Lending Club, it’s important to remember the shareholder performance delivered by Gleason and team when compared to the behemoths. No one has been more successful at using social media to generate awareness and a positive image for their bank than Jill (@JillCastilla, @CitizensEdmond).

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Community Bank Apple Community Technology 60

PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

Millennials. million millennials, as reported by Pew Research Center , obtaining, maintaining and retaining consumers from this particular consumer segment is the golden ticket for retailers. As such, a key demographic of the millennial population on which retailers may want to zero in: the Hispanic group.

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Millennials Taxes United States Retail 113

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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Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. For example, Google announced its acquisition of Fitbit in November 2019 as part of its broader initiative to establish a presence in the healthcare technology space on par with Apple and the Apple Watch product. Remote learning technology.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Bankrate found 83% of millennials don’t think they’ll ever retire: they simply “don’t think they’ll have the money” to do so.). In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Silver Fusion Retail Outlet: Where Snowbirds Shop”. Integrated with major retailer API’s like Amazon, eBay, Best Buy and several other aspirational brands. Most PFM solutions come from a bank-oriented side; this seems to be taking the model from both the retailer and the banking side. What do people aspire to purchase?”

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Mobile Cards Fraud Data 40

PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2016

Apple sorta fizzled, but the markets don’t seem to have noticed. Retail had a good week, both in concept with contextual commerce and Macy’s getting high-tech with a little help from IBM. Not having such a good week, other than Apple, were FinTech IPOs. Millennials. Millennials are clearly a sizzle.

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