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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The retail ecosystem has been turned upside down over the past six months as changes big and small rippled through the segment worldwide in response to the pandemic. 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,” Molnar said.

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AUGUST 25, 2019

Kohl’s is teaming up with the social media giant to uncover emerging brands that millennial shoppers consider cool. Kohl’s is following a retail movement to offer curated collections so shoppers can explore new trends. In another attempt to reach millennials, Kohl’s partnered with Popsugar to launch a clothing line last September.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Consumers — especially millennials and Generation Z — are looking for new commerce experiences during the 2019 holiday season. However, they are also hesitant to pay for those new experiences with credit cards or other traditional financing options. Around The Buy Now, Pay Later Worl d.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

All that’s left now, more or less, is the rush of returns that will all but overwhelm some retailers. To get a better sense of what’s coming (and to have some holiday fun), PYMNTS recently caught up with Akash Garg, CTO of Afterpay — a company that offers flexible payment terms, and essentially serves a digital layaway provider.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

End-to-end gift card platform Qwikcilver has launched its Woohoo virtual gift card store on the Google Pay Spot Platform to enable users in India to buy and send virtual gift cards in real time, the United News of India reported on Monday (Dec. The more upscale the restaurant, the greater the decline.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Afterpay has announced its in-store buy now, pay later (BNPL) service is being offered by major retailers at locations across the country. Shoppers can use Afterpay to buy items in select retail stores using their Afterpay card, a virtual, contactless card stored in their digital wallet,” the firm said in a Tuesday (Oct.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

For retailers, nothing really ever comes easy — and things aren’t getting any easier, at least when it involves gaining and retaining customers. Indeed, as the recently completed National Retail Federation (NRF) retail show in New York City demonstrated, commerce keeps moving to what Webster called in the webinar a “customer-centric approach.”

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MARCH 23, 2018

In an effort to attract millennials to its platform, Square is offering a pilot program that gives its Square Cash Card customers a dollar off their coffee purchases. The effort could change millennials’ payment behaviors, MarketWatch reported.

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APRIL 5, 2019

Against this backdrop, we find, then, that millennials do not embrace credit cards as readily as other groups of users. Bankrate has estimated that roughly 33 percent of millennials have cards. In one example, the apparel company Cotton On last year began offering installments via Afterpay.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Outback Steakhouse has rolled out a new “curbside concierge” option for holiday gift card shopping, according to a Monday (Nov. Customers call ahead or go to their nearby restaurant and drive into a set gift card drive-up parking spot with the service. Customers who purchase $50 in gift cards up to Dec. 30) announcement.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

president of Klarna , a Swedish banking conglomerate that is trying, along with Afterpay and other buy now, pay later companies, to change the way fashion is sold. and has attracted more than 3,000 retailers to its partnerships. Sykes believes the attraction of online companies and uber-retailers it simple at one level.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Tim Moran, senior vice president of product and marketing at Worldnet , told PYMNTS that the age of automated retail is dawning — but there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Moran said the overall trend toward automation is being driven by the consumer, and in particular, by millennial consumers.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Shortly after rolling out this summer in Canada, Drop, the mobile app that gives users rewards and access to loyalty programs, has more than 70,000 millennials as customers. Using a credit card earns the customers double points. “We think millennials — some call them lazy — but they want seamless experiences.”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

credit cards, but averages can be a bit misleading. For example, that figure includes a full 30 percent of Americans who don’t carry or use a credit card at all. The average credit card-wielding American carries about four different cards (3.7 Among millennials, that number drops below 30 percent. to be exact).

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MARCH 1, 2018

The March Disbursements Tracker looks at the latest solutions that companies are offering in an effort to help these workers get paid for their labor. Once payments are disbursed, cards can be used to make online and in-store purchases, withdraw funds from an ATM, transfer funds or pay bills. Around the Disbursements World.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

The two brothers ended up co-founding Scribe , an eCommerce website that sells paper greeting cards. The company lets consumers connect offline — through greeting cards that help them celebrate events with handwritten messages. The platform would then suggest that a user choose a card for her through the site.

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JULY 23, 2020

Payments company Afterpay , which works in the buy now, pay later ( BNPL ) space, is rolling out a new feature called Pulse to help reward those who make payments on time, a press release says. Pulse purports to give new benefits to the younger customers like millennials and Gen-Z, who the release calls “the most valuable.”

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JULY 3, 2019

million from investors including Partech, Axeleo Capital, Lafayette Plug and Play and others to further develop its loyalty program integrated into credit or debit cards. Founded in 2018, Joko’s loyalty program already works with dozens of major retailers including McDonald’s, Uber, Starbucks, Zara and more.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

Although the installment concept is hardly new, Afterpay’s platform and growing catalog of retailers has brought fame and fortune to the company and its founders. A big part of Afterpay’s growth stems from the fact that its super-simple service is appealing to both customers and retailers alike. Preference For Debit.

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APRIL 24, 2017

The long-suffering team at American Express has a new headache to handle — losing the love of those millennial customers. and yes, this looks like card data breach. For a time, it seemed as though the brand might be going public, but plans have apparently changed in light of the changing state of brick-and-mortar retail in the U.S.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

The reason private label works so well in stores, Bread CEO and Co-founder Josh Abramowitz told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, is because they are so well-integrated with the physical retail environments for which they were created. This isn’t the case for retailers born in the online world, Abramowitz contends.

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JUNE 22, 2020

Like contactless payments, “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) companies are having a right time, right idea moment thanks to COVID-19, as consumers look to stretch every dollar — buying time, as it were — until livings and revenues are adequately restored across a reeling economy. Retail Response Requested.

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JUNE 7, 2019

That, in turn, reportedly provides another opportunity for the emerging and growing legal cannabis retail sector. Legal cannabis retail has yet to find its firm footing — too many ongoing payment challenges to say that — but beer companies are taking notice of the possibilities, at least according to a report Thursday (June 6) from NBC News.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Millennials are a force to be reckoned with, as they are made up of approximately 90 million individuals with significant spending power: By 2030, their aggregate annual income is projected to be more than $4 trillion. Attracting Millennials. Approximately 75 percent of Gravy’s users are millennials. Second Chances.

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APRIL 30, 2019

According to Will Byrne, CEO of Worldnet Payments , the kiosks and smart shelves that are gaining traction across any number of commerce and retail settings may even shift the employment picture a bit. The Changing Retail Footprint. As unattended retail notches an increasing footprint, said Byrne, other use cases will also emerge.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

We have a deep dive into Colorado’s digital driver’s license effort and news on Alphabet’s new CEO, as well as data on millennial Black Friday spending. Millennials Were Black Friday’s Big Spenders in 2019. Millennials were the big Black Friday spenders , shelling out an average of $509.50 Top News . operations.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Retailers are certainly in the swing of things. The company said shoppers will be able to find deals on its website, like $25 off a Bounce Pro 7-foot My First Trampoline and $100 off a VIZIO 55-inch Class M-Series Quantum 4K Ultra HDR Smart TV. The holiday shopping season is upon us, and the trends for the season are emerging.

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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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MARCH 4, 2020

That’s one of the conclusions drawn from a new report on customer loyalty from Merkle, and it holds some clues for retailers looking to improve the recency and frequency of customer visits and purchases. “To What keeps a consumer loyal isn’t a loyalty program or even a store-branded card offering goodies or rewards.

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APRIL 16, 2019

Mastercard has moved into point-of-sale financing with the acquisition of Vyze, a FinTech firm the payment card network calls an “an end-to-end platform that facilitates financing options for merchants’ customers at checkout.”. trillion opportunity, the company said, citing a figure from Accenture. Vyze already works with several U.S.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

They may spend hours browsing retailers’ online or mobile websites, only to abandon the items placed in their carts — the digital equivalent to window shopping. Cost is a major concern for consumers, especially for millennials and members of Gen Z, who tend to view spending differently than older generations.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Retailers often need additional coverage during peak holiday shopping periods, hospitals may need substitutes for nurses on paternity leave and construction companies might need to increase staff for sizable projects. Employees’ Payroll Card Opinions. The number of activated payroll cards in the U.S. rose from 3.1

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

But before we shut the door on 2019, it bears taking a moment to note how much the world of retail has changed in the last year, a fitting capstone on a decade that has seen retail as the American consumer commonly knew it taken to the ground and rebuilt nearly from the foundations. Lesson 1: Think Big . “We

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JUNE 16, 2016

A lot of fuss is made over millennials and their proclivities toward things being easy. So, when it comes to something like digital banking , it’s not so much about finding what’s easy as it is about finding what service best meets millennials’ needs. Millennials to big banks: No thanks ….

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

More than one out of four millennials carry less than $5 cash with them. And according to another study, nearly 20 percent of millennials have not used cash in two months. With a fifth of millennials already rarely using cash, it is clear that this is happening relatively rapidly,” said Kalle Marsal, CMO of Mitek.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Capital One Halts BNPL Transactions On Its Credit Cards. Capital One Financial Corp is putting a stop to buy now, pay later (BNPL) transactions on its credit cards, calling the dealings “ risky ,” for both consumers and banks. Report: Millennials, Buy Now Pay Later And The Shifting Dynamics Of Online Credit.

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APRIL 3, 2020

Just 33 percent of millennials carry credit cards, for example, but this demographic and Generation Z combine to make up the largest BNPL market user base. These services are beneficial to businesses as well, with payment solutions provider PayPal finding that average receipt sizes rose 15 percent for the retailers that offered them.

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