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

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And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. Take PayPal, for example. The Digital-First Consumer.

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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. That subtle checkout conversion mission is still ongoing, but now, Affirm is branching out beyond the regular confines of in-store and online retail. eBay’s Virtual Future.

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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.