PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

The storied department store is a bit more than a brand at this point. Some have noted that Macy’s is a middle-market brand pitching to a middle class that no longer exists — or doesn’t exist in enough force to support its expansive business model. A lot has been written in recent years about everything that has gone wrong at Macy’s.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The lucrative “ bridge millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high-earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent reporting ownership of a voice-activated device and 55 percent of those owners using them to make a purchase. Google Goes Big.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

The QSR chain is also providing diners with an immersive way to experience its brand via The Bell: A Taco Bell Hotel and Resort in Palm Springs, California in the summer for a limited time. The portion of millennial parents who would rather not eat at all than wait in long QSR lines is 48 percent. is 63,000.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

Moving deeper into the quarter, inventory became a mounting problem due to a combination of factors, including a miss on key women’s sportswear private brands, a slow sell-through of warm-weather apparel and accelerated decline in the international tourism business. He noted that the second quarter got off to a slow start.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2018

Millennials love to share. They are proportionally comfortable using gig economy services that provide these things, with about a third of millennials working some sort of gig position themselves. The two-sided marketplace operates in 200 locations across the U.S. Match.com is one of the only brands of its era that still exists.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If there was any stigma left about used clothing it may have been erased last week as Nordstrom put its high-end brand on what it calls “re-commerce.”. For See You Tomorrow, Yerdle will power all backend operations including cleaning and repairing of product, inventory processing and fulfillment, pricing and authentication.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

billion fine onto Google, claiming that their product carousel ads created an unfair advantage to small guy retailers who didn’t have the money to advertise. They seemed to be living in the last decade, when people really did just use Google or Bing to look for products. Take Google. The regulators in Europe piled a $2.7

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Kitchen United CEO Jim Collins told Karen Webster that, as the owner-operator of Montrose Town Kitchen & Grill in California, he had a front-row seat to this a few years ago when the Postmates delivery people first started showing up at his door. The biggest lesson is that restaurants need to rethink what they are in a fundamental way.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Discogs operates as an online, crowdsourced avenue through which individuals can list their popular and rare audio recordings for sale. Forbes reports that Discogs owes its success to the vinyl resurgence and, though some millennials may not want to admit it, to big corporate retailers as well. Current Climate.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Online luxury marketplace 1stdibs stands as an example of that kind of content, along with providing — as do some other companies — a demonstration of the appeal of both digital and physical forms of content to tie consumers to a brand or ecosystem. In a discussion with PYMNTS on Wednesday (Feb. billion catalogs were sent to U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. Rewards can help lure customers to a brand and keep them there. I think merchants and issuers alike see the value of rewards in creating a storyline for customers, enhancing the relationship with the brand and driving stronger loyalty,” he added.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

It’s not impossible to compete, but Amazon’s most notable and intractable competitors are super-sized themselves: Walmart, Google, Target, Apple, etc. For some retailers and brands, the risks outweigh the rewards: Sears, Best Buy, Nike and Chico’s are all big names that have added their shops to the Amazon digital marketplace.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Google … and Ad-Supported Search . The category that Google innovated 20 years ago – ad-supported search – now appears to be one of its scariest things. Consumers don’t Google for takeout anymore – they go straight to Grubhub. Apple … and the iPhone Customer.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

The facility, which has been in operation since March, serves more than 100 Walmart locations in Guangxi and Guangdong. JD has over 2,400 locations that offer brands such as Nike, Puma and Adidas. Even so, shares in the retailer have skyrocketed 77 percent this year as the firm rides the millennial preference for athleisure items.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

That includes the two mobile giants who started this massive wave rolling to shore: Google with Android and Apple with its iOS-based mobile devices. All you millennials out there, ask your parents what they used to do as teenagers on Saturday afternoons. A LITTLE WALK DOWN SHOPPING’S MEMORY LANE. Should they focus on apps? With its 1.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Of Merchant Link’s own client base, Carcillo said half are brand-name businesses, while the other half are smaller businesses, storefronts or franchisees. There’s a demographic push at work here, too, said Carcillo, which he defined as “millennial consumer groups.”. He said the firm is seeing across-the-board adoption of EMV.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Video game manufacturers operated a different model of sorts: Create great games to get consumers to buy the hardware, then keep cranking out great games that would keep consumers on board and upgrading those devices. But for the last three decades or so, the business model did not change very much. Striking a New Strategic Path.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. Most also know that to do that, they have to pay attention to doing right by those stakeholders.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Robinhood offers an easy-to-use app to trade stocks commission-free, making the company popular with millennials. In addition to operating some 1,500 U.S. The underlying healthcare system is broken and data systems are a bit disparate,” Brett Lotito, Oscar’s vice president of insurance operations, told PYMNTS earlier this year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Vodafone is the third-largest mobile operator in the U.K. Operator East Japan Railway Company alone served 17.4 Digital Currency – Millennials Just Aren’t That Into You. In a Toronto university campus-like town called Liberty Village, an experiment is underway among millennials to explore a cashless community.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2018

Earlier this week, Pinduoduo, a Tencent-backed Chinese firm founded by a former Google engineer and sometimes dubbed the “Groupon of China,” launched its initial public offering and saw its stock price surge 36 percent on the first day of trading. Everyone (Everywhere) Loves a Bargain. All in, the firm raised $1.6

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Consider that: Half of Indonesia’s population is under the age of 30, with the number of millennials (aged 17-35) in Indonesia currently at 79.5M. Indonesia features the largest ($27B in 2018) and fastest-growing (49% CAGR 2015-2018) internet economy in Southeast Asia, according to a study by Google and Temasek.

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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. Short-term challenges. Medium-term challenges.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Google confirmed that it will partner with Citi and Stanford Federal Credit Union to launch a checking account linked to Google Pay sometime next year. Cache, reportedly the project’s code name, is described by Google as a “smart” DDA. Google’s Everyday App Opportunity. It was the gasp heard ‘round the world last week.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

One of the general topics at hand was what it might take to get more restaurants — including quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and fast-casual operations — to get in the game and update their technology, payment and guest engagement efforts for 2020. The stakes are too high to stay behind the pack for too long. Innovation Sparks. “You

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Diana Chin (HR & Operations). Branded version is available. ^KT. Fiserv is meeting that need for FIs and millennials. Industry leader Fiserv is tackling the issue account opening for Millennials. I suspect it could be very popular with Millennials as they get serious about savings and investing. That’s new.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

mobile, remote capture); it partners with the likes of Google, Schwab and TrueCar; and its talent is active every day with 150+ agile team members creating new capabilities and the highest Net Promoter Score in banking. The workplace a millennial will most confuse with Silicon Valley – Live Oak Bank in North Carolina. Might be time to.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. Even as the regulation pendulum swings back toward more limited oversight, how investment banks operate is fundamentally changing. Table of contents. The disruption of the IPO.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

Store-based installment plans have existed for decades, but now point-of-sale credit innovators offer consumers the chance to finance the purchase of individual products in-store and online, via white label or branded solutions. Is the fit with my usual size in this brand of jeans the same in the same size with another brand?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Could it be that next year’s mobile mania will be powered by … Google? True, the growth may be tepid, but during a deflationary environment, the firm has been grabbing the benefits of lower merchant fees post its switch from Amex to Citigroup via co-branded cards. And millennials are signing up for membership, too.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

For now, though, the focus is getting this accelerator effort off the ground — Walmart will hold the majority stake in that operation — and getting more consumers to sign up for Walmart MoneyCard accounts. Brand familiarity is important, as it can spark a vital sense of app security and reliability. Retail FinTech Trends. Indeed, 28.9

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

Getting on board with this new technology is key for banks and financial institutions as they look for ways to attract millennial consumers. This year, the Digital Banking Tracker looked at millennials’ financial habits and why younger users favor digital banking solutions over traditional banking models. UNATTENDED RETAIL TRACKER.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

It’s a reality that’s coming to pass sooner than most brands may like, and predictably so, there’s a millennial behind the rise of chatbots as tools programmed to make consumers lives easier (instead of just more shoppable). Was there an emergency that precluded safe parking?),

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2016

Dahl’s guess was that with some clever branding, cute packaging and a clever enough pitch, the Pet Rock would soon be a national sensation. From almost out of nowhere, the Niantic’s AR adaptation of an early ’90s cartoon has become a favorite among now adult millennials. And, of course, Niantic isn’t all the way there yet.

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CB Insights

JULY 30, 2017

Already, over two dozen major corporates including Google, Apple and Mercedes Benz are hard at work building their own self-driving vehicles. Audi VP of brand strategy and digital business Sven Schuwirth has predicted that 20 years from now , many of these motel customers will instead choose to sleep in their driverless cars.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 25, 2016

If you’re an online bank or are simply looking for younger, more millennial-type customers, Twitter and Instagram are strong platforms to use. For instance, she calls Facebook “the pub” for its accessibility to connect with clients, stay top of mind for promotional events and share stories to humanize a bank’s brand. Expand your reach.

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