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Retail Bedfellows Roundup: Staples Shares Space, Affirm Finances Life Experiences

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Sure, one could sit back in an armchair and chalk it all up to irascible millennials, but Staples is taking the proactive approach and making sure it can provide the right office supplies, however — and wherever — its consumers want them. “People are everywhere,” Jacobson said. “People are living in all different places.

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12 Industries Experts Say Millennials Are Killing — And Why They’re Wrong

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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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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

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Consumers today can use Alexa to order food, book an Uber and do their banking – and they do. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials. Our own studies show that more than 14 percent of all consumers over the age of 18 living in the U.S.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

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Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Little known fact: Leach writes in his book that Georgia O’Keefe made a tidy sum in 1927 by painting posters that graced department store walls and windows.