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Millennials in Motion

NCR

More worrisome are the kids who can’t remember a time before social media. Turns out that was just a preview: Another Facebook executive, EMEA operations chief Nicola Mendelsohn, recently predicted that within five years Facebook “will be definitely mobile, [and] it will be probably all video.”. Has it really been that long?

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Omnichannel No Longer An Option For Retail

PYMNTS

Particularly among younger consumers, the millennial and Gen Z “digital natives,” who, by the numbers, show a much greater affection for the physical store than their boomer parents and Gen X older siblings do. What Every Brand Needs For An Omnichannel Experience. So why aren’t digital natives shopping digitally?

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Building A Subscription Box For Tools And Construction Supplies

PYMNTS

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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Rent The Runway, West Elm And The Oversharing Economy

PYMNTS

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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Can Sneaker Sales Save The Lagging Apparel Industry?

PYMNTS

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. Celebrity-endorsed fashion, sponsoring sports teams and attracting consumers through social media are some marketing initiatives adopted by vendors.

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Madness and Social Media, Baby

Social Assurance

It’s that time of year where brand new Peer to Peer payment systems are used for unsanctioned gambling in office pools and Americans lose millions of hours of productivity with employees checking basketball scores… and I love it. And smooching Ashley Judd , woah, too far, way too far, definitely not ok.

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Winning the Customer

Banking 2020

No one understands this trend better than those pesky millennials. These digital-heavy, mobile-savvy youngsters feel free to eschew brand loyalty and shop around for options on a whim, and the constant emergence of new technologies supports fickle habits. At the same time, credit unions chalked up 3% growth in new millennial customers.