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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

PYMNTS

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

PYMNTS

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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Mobile Payments: Samsung To Tackle Africa And Google The App Landscape

PYMNTS

Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. The study found that both millennials and non-millennials want to use mobile to manage finances, and cash is becoming less important to both groups.

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

CB Insights

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

PYMNTS

At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. ” What a breach of etiquette to call out the retail security industry — however necessary it is. “People are everywhere,” Jacobson said.

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Doing Omni-Channel First, Or Doing It Right?

Banking 2020

For example, a new report from consulting firm Boston Retail Partners states 85% of retailers say that ‘unified commerce’ is a top priority for the year ahead, and many merchants are well on their way. The regular drumbeat of stories about data breaches at brand-name retail chains probably doesn’t help.).

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In Favor Of Delivery: The Growing Omnichannel Store-To-Door Ecosystem

PYMNTS

This demand for timeliness and simplicity is evidenced by the demographics with which third-party delivery services are being most enthusiastically embraced: millennials, parents with children under 18, and city dwellers. We need to be an extension of our partners’ service and brand.”.

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