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The Old Guard Vs. The New Wave In Retail

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Lampert’s statements may have been intended to downplay the consistently poor performance of the Sears brands, but instead it helped to shine a spotlight on the struggles that “old school” retailers are facing in an industry increasingly dominated by “new school” brands. Consumers don’t want to commit to a lipstick?

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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

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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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Wealth, Superannuation and the new aspirational consumer zeitgeist

Jessica Ellerm

At best, each employee would then check said bank account once a year, at tax time. While statements like the one above might get Australians a little hot under the collar, maybe even enough to get them to consider switching, the plethora of vanilla superannuation brands and confusing offerings sees them make a fast retreat.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

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. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis

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While they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever. It’s one thing for the millennial offspring of the billionaire hedge-fund scions to fall short of making a billion because they only manage to pull down $760 million a year. It’s a fact. population.

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The ‘Uber Of Nothing’ Is Coming

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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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Soda Wars Summer

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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. Another Ad Age article outlines the perennial bridesmaid soda brand’s campaign as reaching 100 global markets this year, including the U.S,