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Baby Boomers Vs. Millennials: Eerily Similar?

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While most millennials were brought up in the age of the computer, baby boomers can remember a time when they weren’t surrounded by technology. It’s a peculiar dichotomy to compare millennials to their parents’ generation, the baby boomers. percent, millennials (who are in part to blame for this) aren’t the main contributing factor.

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Why Pride Vendors Are Forgoing Cash For mPOS

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Skirting Cash Shortages at Boston Pride. Boston’s pride celebration is one of the season’s biggest events for Mandy Roberge, the owner and artist behind Wicked Good Henna. The 2018 Boston Pride parade reportedly saw more than 750,000 spectators and over 55,000 marchers.

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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. Since The Times’ definitive article on the high costs of summer in 2012, the cost of summer has gone up quite a lot.

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

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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. Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. “People are everywhere,” Jacobson said.

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Matchmaking Millennials To The Experiences They Desire

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While millennials aspire to seek out meaningful experiences, they don’t necessarily have the spending power that enables them to do so. While on the other side of the coin, there are millennials who like to go out in groups, with budgets that may be more restricted but with time to go out more frequently.

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?

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Just as many boomers have made the digital shift as millennials, and as many of those living in big cities and towns have made the shift as those living in less populated areas. I suppose it all depends on whether the definition of “popular” also means most-used. The Digital-First Consumer. The whole process took less than 15 minutes.

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Pandemic Might Launch Flight To Suburbs, And That’s Bad For Urban Businesses

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Mike Kelly, head of real estate Americas at JPMorgan Asset Management, said that while the companies want to lure “millennials [who] are looking to transition away from apartment living, the move toward more spread-out living is also expected to accelerate in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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