PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Convenience is key in the retail sector, especially in eCommerce, where merchants with frustrating or complicated online shopping processes can easily lose customers. Avoiding such an exodus means retailers must be flexible when developing the tools consumers use to make purchases. How Millennials Are Driving BNPL Growth.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Traditional banks aren’t mobile-first, and they’re definitely not customer-first. This might be a ploy to retain T-Mobile customers, but it’s also intended to appeal to consumers without any real affinity for a more traditional financial services provider, including the highly coveted millennial, as well as the unbanked and underbanked.

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Millennials Mobile Study Branding 145

PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2018

There have been a number of great commercial jingles in the history of commercials — tunes so catchy that they stick, almost forever, and remind us of brand names simply by nature of being so catchy. These days, though, we call them Bridge Millennials. ” The Changing Buying Habits Of Millennial Parents.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

If brick-and-mortar merchants can claim anything sacred from the total encroachment of online retail on its turf, it’s the highest echelon of uber-luxurious commerce. The first pieces of evidence come from recent earnings reports from two of the biggest tentpoles in the dollar retail category: Dollar General and Dollar Tree.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s a world that has sprung up around the spending power and tastes of millennials and Gen Zers, and it’s getting hard to keep track of all the available options. According to one Mastercard study , about one-third of millennials and Gen Zers would let a bot plan their next trip in an automated fashion using data from their travel history.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Holiday spending has changed over the past decade as digital payments began to filter into the retail world. Keeping up during this high-volume season can be difficult for retailers when shoppers have unique payment expectations. Retail is all about conversion. Such connections could include buy now pay later (BNPL) solutions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The pop-up shops will be in retail locations of the pharmacy chain in 44 states starting this Friday, and through the conclusion of December, Retail Dive reported. Last October, reports surfaced that Walgreens was partnering with Birchbox to attract millennials and increase its focus on beauty products.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The retailer combines the in-store and app experience to enhance the customer buying process. A regional bank poll of millennials found that not one could name a community institution in their area.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

-based eCommerce giant to which the company is most often compared — is its luxury brands, like Givenchy and Proenza Schouler. Zalando has had much success in the upper and even middle-tiers of fashion: Fast-fashion brands like Zara and H&M were long holdouts. Necessity, however, has long been the mother of invention.

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Branding Retail Millennials Strategy 145

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. 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. Staples Will Sell You A Desk — Or Let You Share One.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Loyalty rewards for shoppers are not new to the Gap , or its associated brands, Banana Republic, Athleta and Old Navy. For those who carry either the branded Gap card, or the Gap Mastercard (or anyone who has ever been part of a retail rewards program), the offerings are fairly familiar. We have a successful Gap, Inc.

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Fort Worth Branding Cards Retail 107

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

We finally have a definitive answer to the mysterious, canary-yellow marketing campaign Snapchat launched earlier this year. But there was no clear branding on any of them unless you were in on the reference. It’s not just millennials and post-millennials using a free service any longer. The Snapbots are coming!

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Millennials Video Retail Regional 143

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Millennials are also more likely to go the do-it-yourself (DIY) route than consumers from other age groups. Almost three quarters — or 73 percent — of millennials are doing DIY home improvement. Products in the box come from brands such as Milwaukee, Ryobi and Gorilla Glue as well as Varathane, Watco, Everbilt and 3M.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

The firm’s solution to the cupcake problem was hybridized desserts — saffron mousse rice pudding, kunafa cheesecake, and the company’s signature dessert, the cupookie (which, despite its appearance is definitely, “ not a cupcake ” even though it is definitely the shape of a cupcake and involves icing and cake.

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Online Marketing Millennials Branding 148

PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Millennials, we’ve often been told, are a generation of renters, as opposed to buyers. But the end result is that millennials aren’t just more likely to rent their homes later into life than their Generation X or baby boomer counterparts. trillion in student debt of which they are demographically speaking the largest bearers.

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Millennials social media Retail Marketing 116

PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

Toys R Us vs. The Retail Death Spiral . Winner: The Retail Death Spiral. Just in time for the Ides of March, the 50-year-old brand announced it was shutting or selling all of its stores in the U.S., Just in time for the Ides of March, the 50-year-old brand announced it was shutting or selling all of its stores in the U.S.,

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Payments Millennials US Fraud 108

PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Ripples were promptly sent flying into all corners of the retail universe with the launch of Amazon Home Services in March 2015, and now that both mom-and-pop hardware shops, as well as national brick-and-mortar chains have had more than a calendar year to react to the changes, a definite trend has emerged.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

Fashion is largely fueling the rise in footwear sales, as many consumers, especially millennials, “prefer matching their footwear with their daily outfits,” according to the TechNavio report. billion for advertising their brand.”. For instance, during 2014, Adidas entered a 10-year sponsorship agreement with Manchester United for $1.13

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

Millennials just aren’t wearing jeans any longer. You might notice the trend in the streets, as more and more millennials are switching up the look of traditional denim jeans for stylish (and far more comfortable) sweatpants or yoga pants from Lululemon, Nike or Under Armour. strength.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

The company sells hand-poured lollipops in various shapes and flavors — like rose cardamom, chili mango and mojito — and often goes by its Lick It Lollipops candy brand name. Kim typically sells at street and craft fairs, churches, schools, retail settings and ticketed events.

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San Diego Boston Cards New York 137

PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

Our focus has always been building a brand that consumers will trust,” LaBella said. “As As a new brand, you can’t advertise that; you can’t market trust. Posts focused on financial service topics relevant to the country’s unbanked, underbanked and millennial consumers, on how to budget and how to start putting funds away into savings.

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Community Cards Marketing Branding 116

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2

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Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

That’s why digital capabilities have revolutionized every industry from retail and healthcare to banking—if the same services can be had from half a world away, and for a lower cost, why not avail of them? No one understands this trend better than those pesky millennials. And don’t tune out the digital benefits just yet.

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Millennials Survey social media Online 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2017

We can safely say that pants have lived up to their minimum commitment as a garment — they do a great job of covering one’s lower half, for example — but even that definition is up in the air as pop icon Kim Kardashian proudly demonstrates here. So what does it mean for pants to be doing their best work?

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Meeting Maine Examples Millennials 126

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

“Throw out everything you’ve ever learned about what makes a consumer loyal to a brand.” – Loyalties New One Percenters. It’s not driven by the trend setting millennials and Generation Z shoppers or by the affluent — it seems to be age, generation and income-independent and geography-independent.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2018

And that mindset — according to what Michelle Spellerberg, Alliant Vice President of Marketing & Digital Channels, told PYMNTS — is the mindset mistake that is keeping consumers bound to the brand, despite the fact that the concept is, in Alliant’s opinion, “on its way out.”. “I This is a learned experience from when we were all kids.

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Mobile Digital Banking Millennials Online 101

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

The company first introduced mobile ordering capabilities in 2016 through its own branded app, an offering that was originally part of an effort to increase what the company refers to as “off-premise sales” — or, as average people are more likely to call it, “take-out.”. Appetite for App-based Dining.

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Mobile Branding Technology Online 101

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2017

There’s not one definitive, dependable website where everything is covered. Geared toward millennials, the app’s goal is “to fuel the ‘experience economy’ and a new breed of aspirant adventurers and travelers who no longer define themselves solely by the brands they buy, but instead by the experiences they keep.”.

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Branding Comparison Report Washington 123

CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this analysis, we’ll explore the immediate and long-term challenges facing the CPG industry, as well as the business strategies that CPG brands are using to adapt. Pinnacle Foods, which owns Vlasic pickles and other brands, has been targeted by activist investor Jana Partners. Retailers move downstream.

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NCR

APRIL 11, 2016

Sure, the easy access to every kind of data and capability with a click or two perfectly encapsulates the priorities of modern life, but we could argue that this disappearing act contributes to the loss of brand loyalty now causing our industry so much distress. Convenience is definitely one of those, but only one.

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Video Tools Mobile Millennials 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Visual search has held promise for online retailers for some time, especially since offering more visual content can engage tech-savvy millennial and Gen Z consumers. That’s some of the more advanced image recognition AI that we’ll definitely bring to mobile in the future. AI for Personalization.

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Customer Experience Millennials Retail social media 109

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Could the secret to winning the grocery wars lie not in groceries, but in adjacent brands and services? According to Supermarket News, Hy-Vee ranked 24 th among North American grocery retail providers in 2016. “We She said the new concept would include a health food store, groceries, pharmacy, clinic and fitness studio.

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Iowa Retail Exercises Branding 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2016

Luxury Daily reports that the high-end retailer debuted its millennial-targeting pop-up — or Pod — at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, from March 17–19, and plans to continue featuring it at similar events. ” “Our core customer is definitely going to these festivals,” continued Lopez.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

They want to engender loyalty to the brand for aspirational customers to get their trial and, hopefully, drive adoption in the form of ownership,” Burkhart said. Millennials and recent college graduates often don’t even have a credit card, Burkhart said, so the thought of purchasing a car fills them with trepidation. Why Subscription?

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Millennials Industry Resources Branding 104

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

To PNC , who at BAI Retail Delivery pointed to hiring a behavioral psychologist to review its origination process. Department Whose Brand Isn’t Improving Award. Diebold seizes the merger moment with fledgling Wincor Nixdorf to change its already well-known brand. Financial Brand Forum. Millennials. Diebold Nixdorf.

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Community Bank Apple Community Technology 60

CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

An explosion of new consumer finance brands is transforming how people save, spend, and manage their money. Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Robinhood’s clutter-free user interface design is flypaper for millennial audiences. trillion in annual spending.

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