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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. Toys R Us ’ famous “Toys R Us Kids” jingle succeeded in doing that, and then some. Not a grain of salt — a whole container.

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JULY 15, 2020

CEO of Afterpay , recently told Karen Webster that consumers — particularly millennials and Generation Z — were already showing distinct preferences for digital commerce and paying with debit cards rather than credit cards. Nick Molnar , co-founder and U.S. How have luxury retailers found a way to shift alongside this trend?

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MAY 1, 2020

We had one of the best weeks ever in our business over the past week, something that’s left us pleasantly surprised, [but] cautiously optimistic,” DiNunzio told Webster. Tradesy already has SMB boutique sellers who use the company’s site as a distribution channel.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. billion in domestic sales — To expand its delivery reach, Taco Bell — along with KFC — has recently tapped Grubhub to provide delivery and online ordering. Taco Bell’s $9.8

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Mintel surveyed 1,700 shoppers online last year and discovered a fifth of consumers agreed that “experience gifts” were better than tangible products. The Mintel survey indicated the lion’s share of respondents who identified themselves as millennials or Generation Z preferred experiences over gifts.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The youngest of the bridge millennials – those 30- to 40-year-olds who today represent the first generation of connected consumers with spending power – will be having their mid-life crises at the age of 50. After all, for many of us, 1999 seems like it was just yesterday. The year is 2039. By then, it might be.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The reCommerce luxury marketplace The RealReal announced a unique partnership this week, linking up with Gucci through the end of the year to launch an online shop featuring used Gucci items and promote a sustainable, circular economy for luxury fashion. higher than average compared to all brands sold on the site.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Mintel surveyed 1,700 shoppers online last year and discovered a fifth of consumers agreed that “experience gifts” were better than tangible products. The Mintel survey indicated the lion’s share of respondents who identified themselves as millennials or Generation Z preferred experiences over gifts.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

With the busy holiday season upon us, we are proud to offer a truly multi-channel payment solution that has proven to bring new customers and increased sales to our retail partners,” Afterpay Global Chief Revenue Officer Melissa Davis said in the announcement. “Our CEO Nick Molnar said in a past PYMNTS panel.

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MAY 29, 2017

Millennials heavily favor legalization at 77 percent — no big shock there — but their baby boomer parents favor it even more heavily, at 81 percent. We came up with the idea of an online marketplace for cannabis because we were really looking at how people shop for everything.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Collaborating with Afterpay gives our customers the power of choice when shopping across our family of brands,” John Strain , chief digital and technology officer at Gap, said in a statement on Wednesday (Nov. Participating Gap brands include Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta. . “By We are proud to partner with Gap Inc.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The brick-and-mortar experience of Toys“R”Us most millennials remember from childhood — with its massive supply and aisles upon aisles of toys — is looking likely to become a relic of a bygone era in retail. Toys“R”Us, though, would like to use it to “return to the chain’s more experiential roots,” according to Brandon.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

This newfound cost consciousness is reshaping the retail industry in everything from spurring the rise of fast fashion at the expense of mall “anchor stores,” to the increasing popularity of off-brands or store brands in the supermarket, to the shift in the apparel business, to off-price retail outlets over full-priced department stores.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

This year will not only go down in history as “the year of the pandemic,” but for consumer packaged goods brands, it will also be known as “the year of direct to consumer.”. 1 reason cited involves loyalty to well-known brands. This suggests that D2C does well in areas where consumers have strong brand preferences.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

He added that the new prepaid Visa card “opens up many opportunities for us to reach out and meet the needs of consumers, particularly the youth and millennials.”. “Over the last year, since our initial announcement, a lot of time and effort has gone into developing and perfecting this product.”.

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MARCH 23, 2018

The founder of Toys R Us passed away yesterday (March 22) at the ripe old age of 94, barely a week after news broke that the toy chain would be closing its doors for good. Millennials across America singing “I’m a Toys R Us kid” in as solemn a fashion as possible this week are a testament to that. Toys R Us Is Born.

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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. That is, if the current trend toward dollar shopping holds — both in-store and online. billion total. billion total.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Kohl’s Corporation CEO Michelle Gass said in a fourth-quarter earnings conference call with analysts that investments in technologies such as its mobile app, and buy online, pick up in store (BOPUS), among other initiatives, are “resonating” with the company’s shoppers while bolstering traffic and sales. Rewards and Millennials.

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JUNE 2, 2020

The past several months have been largely defined in the retail world by merchants and brands making quick digital pivots to stay afloat in an environment that’s gone from “digital sometimes” to “digital mostly.”. When selling online became the only game in town, retailers across the board got very seriously digital overnight. “It

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Sykes believes the attraction of online companies and uber-retailers it simple at one level. What brand doesn’t want to sit next to Beyonce or Kim at a fashion show? “I It’s also typically fairly fast moving, but for Klarna it gets us close to great brands. We want those great brands to adopt Klarna.”.

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MARCH 18, 2019

When cleancult Co-Founder Ryan Lupberger looked at other brands of cleaning products, he noted that the same problems always appeared to arise even with better-for-the-world offerings. They used really heavy plastic packaging,” Lupberger told PYMNTS in an interview, adding he also didn’t understand their ingredient lists.

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JUNE 25, 2020

On an even smaller scale MaskClub, a subscription-based buy one, donate one online mask retailer announced last week that it was expanding its mask offerings with a new line of kid-sized masks. MaskClub is owned by Trevco, a licensing company with over 800 licensed brands. People of all ages, elderly down to younger millennial.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. Unlike her competitor for the title of Generations X’s Martha Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Teigen has built a brand around being accessibly aspirational.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Revlon will be stamping its name on 10 million Amazon shipping boxes, said Internet Retailer , to make an impression on eCommerce shoppers (especially the coveted millennial cosmetics market) as part of a campaign called the Love Project. As PYMNTS reported in December , the beauty industry has become ruled by millennials.

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JULY 17, 2015

Articles via TheStreet, Miami Today News, The Financial Brand. World emoji day: How emoji passwords will obliterate PINs and make bank accounts safer: While a recent report found that 64% of millennials regularly community using only emoji , that doesn’t mean everyone is ready to communicate with their banks using emoji.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Bridge millennials own slightly more devices than the average consumer in our study: six devices compared to the roughly five that most consumers own. This group of 60 million U.S.

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APRIL 1, 2016

There was a point not too long ago when online-only merchants were happy to thumb their noses at the stodgy paradigm of brick-and-mortar retail, but nowadays, even the chicest brands on either side of the divide know they can’t afford to miss out on any selling opportunity.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A lifestyle brand for millennial buyers with an eye for design – but perhaps not the pocketbook for designer prices – the watch and accessories startup MVMT started on its path in 2013. After doing some research on suppliers, the duo found quite a staggering gap between wholesale and retail prices in watch brands.

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JUNE 9, 2016

Millennials, now the largest demographic group in America, are possibly the most misunderstood, elusive market ever, a notion underscored by The Wall Street Journal ’s article about the existence of $20,000-per-hour “Millennial consultants.” Millennials reward positive fraud outcomes. In Millennial parlance, that’s “harsh.”.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Miami-based NYMBUS announced the licensing of NCR’s D3 Digital Banking platform (D3) to give financial institutions the opportunity to quickly offer customers new brands, the FinTech announced in a press release on Monday (Oct. NYMBUS, a provider of cloud-based core technology for financial institutions, was founded by Scott Killoh in 2015.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

“This investment will allow us to continue to make our mark within the back-to-college industry, and through our strong partnership with American Eagle, Dormify will have the opportunity to connect with even more students across the country.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Of those surveyed, only 32 percent of customers in North America reported ordering food using a mobile device in the three months prior. This doesn’t mean that North American customers aren’t pining for mobile ordering options — especially the millennial market. About 80 percent of restaurant owners in the U.S.

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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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MARCH 6, 2020

Price reductions from consumers’ favorite brands would solve their issues, but retailers cannot drop prices as low as some might like. The latter launched a BNPL option from provider Afterpay in 2019, enabling installment payments online and through its mobile app. Millennials and members of Gen Z are already on board with BNPL.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

When J.Crew notched 1 percent same-store sales growth last month, it was a cause for celebration – particularly for a brand that has been somewhat stalled for the last several years. Once ascendant among young working professionals, the brand has boosted its efforts to keep up with the times. The numbers don’t lie.

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JUNE 24, 2019

Those services include visual searches, hyper-personalization and seamless omnichannel functionality — all to weave together online and brick-and-mortar to enhance the consumer experience. By using AI technology, the sportswear brand was able to offer suggestions to online shoppers.

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