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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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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

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Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. The timing seemed perfect. As well, with the Great Recession having recently ended, U.S.

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

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Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. The timing seemed perfect. As well, with the Great Recession having recently ended, U.S.

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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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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

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For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. I’ll leave the political and public policy discourse to others.

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Big Retail Problems, Small Format Solution?

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Target, on the other hand, has enjoyed some success with its flexible format, urbanite- and millennial-friendly CityTarget locations that first launched in 2012 and have since expanded to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, San Diego and Philadelphia. Successful brick-and-mortar retail strategy = Greek yogurt?

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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According to Andrea Boetti, vice president of global business development at Fortumo, although Asia has the highest growth in online content consumption, digital merchants often have difficulty collecting payments because many consumers do not have a credit card. Carrier billing allows uses to make online payments. But In the U.S.,

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