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Today In Payments: Inspire Brands To Buy Dunkin' For $11.3B; US Personal Income Increase Beats Forecasts

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In today’s top news, Inspire Brands is buying Dunkin’ for $11.3 That Its Brands Can Run on Dunkin’. After speculations last week, private equity-backed Inspire Brands will buy Dunkin' and bring it private for $11.3 After speculations last week, private equity-backed Inspire Brands will buy Dunkin' and bring it private for $11.3

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OAK + FORT: Flexible-Payment Plans Boost Luxury Purchases

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These retailers are accustomed to engaging with their customers in brick-and-mortar stores and building long-lasting relationships that lead to brand loyalty. Merchants are facing a host of obstacles as well as opportunities in the rapidly changing retail market, and this is especially true for the luxury sector. About The Tracker .

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For Macy’s and Men’s Wearhouse, No Millennial Tux and Tails Tailwind

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It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms. Now that seems to be true even in fashion.

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Afterpay Teams With Simon Before Holiday Shopping Season

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Shoppers in the United States will have the capacity to easily and safely pay for their purchases in the stores of participating retailers in four installment payments without having to pay upfront charges or interest or get a traditional loan. There are real opportunities for those brands that deeply understand their consumer.”.

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How C-Stores Market To Digitally Savvy Gas App Users

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percent of consumers, this customer base may represent a marketing opportunity for C-stores. According to Thorntons, the ability to provide consumers with a loyalty-focused mobile solution has “changed the game for our marketing efforts.”. While apps are used for gas station payments by only 4.5 Almost half – or 49.4

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Free Trading App Robinhood Sets Sights On Britain

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Robinhood , the investment app that upended its market by elimination of commissions on stock trades is bringing its brand of disruption to the United Kingdom. It chiefly attracts millennials interested in trading stocks and cryptocurrency. As they grow and that comes to an end, they will just become another brokerage.”.

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Afterpay Announces Nationwide Adoption By Major Retailers

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Afterpay first began offering the in-store service in 2016 in Australia and New Zealand, the company said, and it recently was piloted in the United States. Molnar said: “We see millennial and Gen Z customers absolutely shopping, and the brands that deeply understand them are growing at faster rates than they have ever grown before.

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