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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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Why The Pandemic Could Boost Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL)

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For example, Afterpay, which operates in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, recently reported that it served 4.4 They’re also among the most heavily affected by high student-loan and credit-card debt. users are millennials or from Generation Z. million U.S.

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BJ’s On The Block, Amex’s Millennial Problem And Another Big Breach

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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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Chicos: Flexible Payment Options Help Consumers Click Buy, Not Goodbye

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Shoppers in the United States have long turned to credit cards to let them get the products now while delaying payments until they have a chance to save up. Consumers who do not qualify for credit cards or become reluctant to use those tools may see BNPL plans as a convenient alternative method for deferring payments.

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Not Down For The Count, Cash Still Counts For Plenty

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In the latest webinar series, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster jumped into the findings of the Global Cash Index, gaining a sense of the story behind the numbers in the United States and the Americas in general. Cards are perhaps proving a sticking point in the move toward electronic payments. Keep a lid on the casket talk.

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The Year In Data: Measuring 2020’s Payments Innovation

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This study assessed how restaurants’ customer engagement strategies have evolved since the pandemic's onset, and helped identify the key digital innovations that can help restaurants deliver improved user experiences and boost their average unit volumes (AUVs). Buy Now Pay Later: Millennials And The Shifting Dynamics Of Online Credit.

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 PSCU Looks At The (Strong) State Of The CU As 2020 Beckons

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Three months away from the end of 2019 and the dawn of the 2020s, the state of the credit union is stable, due to a healthy foundation that is already in place, according to Charles E. The Millennial Challenge. Now the relationship has moved beyond writing checks to credit and debit cards. Chuck) Fagan, CEO of PSCU.