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Why All The Cool (Affluent) Kids Are Shopping At the Dollar Store

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Millennials like Marin, particularly those entering into the expensive child rearing years, are increasingly likely to look for discounts on day-to-day goods so that spending on bigger-ticket items (think: houses and cars) is a more realistic possibility. And the dollar stores are noticing.

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Why Target Is Letting Kids Design Their Clothes

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Whitney Houston sang a song about it, and “ The Simpsons ” has spent the better part of 30 years parodying the sentiment. Cat & Jack is replacing Circo (Target’s current in-house brand) and Cherokee (a longtime license partner), and neither brand was failing. And of course, a big risk. Quite the opposite.

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‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Breaks Through

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Millennials and Gen Yers are notoriously distrustful of credit. millennials have a credit card – which is to say a single credit card – and why one-third of all Americans today have never even applied for one. cities (LA, Chicago, Brooklyn, Houston, Philadelphia) seeing the greatest action. The concept has legs.