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What’s Under The Millennial Christmas Tree This Year?

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However, after almost 50 years, it began to fade in the 1980s, disrupted by the emergence of store-branded credit cards. Yet, instead of offering the option to pay now and buy later, the credit cards reversed the order of operation and allowed customers to buy now and pay later over time. That’s not all.

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Target Pilots Buy Now Pay Later With Sezzle

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Sezzle , the installments payments platform, will be working on buy now, pay later (BNPL) services with Target , a press release says, which will test how the popular payment trend works with the retail giant's operations.

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The Rise Of Card-on-File Commerce

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Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Part of that includes reminding consumers to use their contactless cards when they check out in their stores (if they have one) or their mobile wallets (if they choose). Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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OAK + FORT: Flexible-Payment Plans Boost Luxury Purchases

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Merchants are optimizing their eCommerce operations, but this is posing challenges for some, including luxury merchants. Luxury retailers are also targeting millennial and Generation Z consumers to expand their customer bases, with one report showing that millennials accounted for 35 percent of high-end retail purchases, for example.

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The Year In Data: Measuring 2020’s Payments Innovation

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This study showed that the home had become the consumer’s commerce command center as they changed their daily routines to do more of their work and more of their once-physical errands from home. Key Data Points: 60 percent of small restaurant operators have had their revenues decline since the pandemic began. 31 percent bank via app.

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Not Down For The Count, Cash Still Counts For Plenty

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The Cardtronics executives noted that the studies are not all that surprising, and where once the findings reflected increasing cash adoption across, say, Europe, recent research has borne out the same trends in Europe and the Americas. Cards are perhaps proving a sticking point in the move toward electronic payments.

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GM, Shell And P97 Launch In-Dash Fuel Payments

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The pumps are often grimy, card readers might not work, the air might be frigid or hot, and there may be an odor associated with rubber, petroleum or refuse. Buying fuel is not a desirable purchase,” said Rod Tos, manager of customer payments and card services for energy provider Chevron. Millennial Promise. Other Activity.

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