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Outside The Box (And Inside The Storage Container) Solutions To Sky-High Rent

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Older adults tend to own, while younger adults skew much more heavily toward renting – particularly millennials, for whom homeownership is lower than other generations at the same point in their lives. 2,420 in Boston and $2,300 in Seattle for a no-frills one-bedroom, probably a walk-up. What is Nuns and Nones?

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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communities. That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities.

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Club Monaco, Pop-Ups And Powering Enhanced Retail Experiences

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Since shortly before Christmas 2017, the brand has been pushing health, home and beauty- themed pop-up shops in its flagship store on New York City’s Fifth Avenue. The pop-up program is also designed around building a sense of community, or at least a communal conversation, about their offerings. Pop-up stores.

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Can ‘Elective’ Fees Work For Retail Banks?

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The last such store closed earlier this year in Boston. New York City and the Bay Area combined,” he said. The customers tend to be on the young side — that is, below the age of 35 — which speaks to the focus on sustainability among millennial and younger consumers. “We Only 6 percent are from L.A.,

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The Stats of Summer

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Spring is about renewal, the holiday season is about family and friends, and later winter (in Boston, anyway) is filled with the gnawing anxiety that it might never ever get above 40 degrees Fahrenheit again. This year, 89 percent of millennials are planning to take a vacation. The New York Times is right.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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In London too, Apple Pay works on the Underground, buses and trains, and the company is keen to serve Boston, New York and other cities with tap-and-pay mobile services. Digital Currency – Millennials Just Aren’t That Into You. Operator East Japan Railway Company alone served 17.4

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Chatbots And The Future Of Facebook Messenger

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As Messenger chief David Marcus told The New York Times , “We’re conversational creatures …That’s the way our brain functions.”. I never did get the answer to what I thought was a simple question on Saturday afternoon: “What’s the weather going to be on Monday, April 18, for the Boston Marathon?”

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