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Rebirth Of Malls: Anchor Stores To Become Destinations For Experiences

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With room for new establishments, malls operators are redesigning their spaces to make room for consumer experience spaces like restaurants and gyms. They are building mini-golf courses, rock-climbing gyms and other experience-focused facilities. The Millennials. Millennials, in particular, love to buy clothes online.

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Digital Kiosks Upgrade To Voice Commerce

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The interface needs no trigger word and operates without personally identifying the user’s voice or face. The solution is adaptable to all web-based apps used at kiosks and plans in the future to accommodate iOS and Android operating systems. “We The pandemic has of course accelerated concerns over touchscreens.

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

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CUs are no longer confined to operating primarily as regional players, moving beyond the confines of original charters that had limited them to, say, specific communities or employers. The Millennial Challenge. There’s a younger generation in the U.S. There’s a younger generation in the U.S.

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How The MENA Gig Economy Provides Global Lessons

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H owever, nothing is easy in life (your parents were right) and that nugget of wisdom served as a central theme of a recent PYMNTS discussion with Rakan Alhassan, operations and marketplace director at UReed. Among the main challenges? The reliance on cash in many of the markets served by UReed, Alhassan said. Payment Lessons. “

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Why (Win Or Lose) Apple Card May Already Be Changing Payments

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Tick down the list of offerings spanning decades (the Mac, the iPhone, the iPod, iTunes, the iOS operating system/ecosystem), and one can find that the ways we communicate, listen, stream and, indeed, interact with technology have all shifted. Wrap even modest rewards in a digital wrapper and, perhaps, demand will follow.

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Rideshare Fare Aggregation Apps Highlight Local Rideshares, Surge Pricing

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In all, it operates in 400 cities in North America and reveals all the choices a consumer has for a ride — giving exposure to smaller rideshares, as well as Uber and Lyft. And, of course, they may or may not have surge pricing. The entire millennial generation is really contemplating modern travel in the urban area,” Olinger said. “The

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Venmo And Zelle’s P2P Battle Royale

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The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle , the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer loyalty and market supremacy — a fight that pits PayPal , the owner of Venmo, against the banks that operate Zelle. The numbers tell a story of ongoing growth and more consumer acceptance. million U.S.

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