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DECEMBER 1, 2020

A new survey of Black Friday shoppers from PYMNTS showed the Seattle retailing giant dominated its rivals in the traditional post-Thanksgiving holiday season kickoff. When PYMNTS last measured Amazon’s take of the total eCommerce business it found that it touched just north of 50 percent for Q1 2020 in eCommerce market share (51.2

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APRIL 9, 2019

Have millennials started starving a segment of commerce in a socially positive way? Added to the list of things millennials are killing — along with homeownership, the institution of marriage and diamond jewelry — is apparently alcohol. Folks in the millennial generation have maybe a better sense of balance. Data from U.S.

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MAY 26, 2020

The data on millennials’ lifetime earnings potential were already fairly grim long before the word “coronavirus” became part of everyone’s daily conversations – and before the U.S. A 2016 paper led by Stanford University Economist Raj Chetty found that millennials were in deeper economic trouble than a quick look at the U.S.

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MARCH 13, 2017

As retailers across categories fawn over shares of millennial spending power, new insight from market research and analytics firm Slice Intelligence indicates that, in terms of apparel market sales, one online retailer appears to have already won the battle. percent of online apparel sales go to millennials.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

New evidence of that — part of the broader trend of the existential changes in the world of brick-and-mortar retail, changes that are gaining more focus this month — comes from reports that stationery chain Papyrus is closing up shop. The chain had since expanded to some 260 or so retail locations. Millennials to the Rescue.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Online marketplaces for everything from retail goods to travel services to hospitality need to ensure a quick and easy way for both buyers and sellers to transact with each other— or risk losing both sides to a waiting host of competitors. In other markets, the rise of marketplaces is giving old organizations new perspective.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

eCommerce’s rise has only made designing retail showrooms more complex, however. Merchants need to bridge this gap as digital connectivity pushes the retail world’s boundaries. Companies need all the tools they can get to keep consumers engaged in the competitive retail environment. Data Insights and Personalization.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Forget millennials – well, at least for a moment. So-called Generation Z is also driving much of the innovation when it comes to retail. To reach consumers on the hunt for offerings that are “clean and natural,” the retail chain rolled out its Everspring household brand. Take Target, for instance. Fast Fashion.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Analysts say they are now employing methods, such as subscribing to retailers’ emails, so they can monitor sales, doorbuster deals and promotions. They’re counting the proportion or number of millennials and Generation Z shoppers at a store, and counting the number of Instagram-popular fashion brands in a store. Analysts say U.S.

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PYMNTS

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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MARCH 30, 2020

Consumers shopping in droves via eCommerce channels is hardly a piece of breaking news — for the better part of a decade, that has been obvious to anyone watching the retail space. They are, Fiserv Senior Vice President of Retail Solutions John Nicola told Karen Webster in a recent conversation — and in great numbers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2019

“It was meant to be a criticism of the art market, and I think it’s going to double the value of the work.”. Because the millennial art buyers are arriving – and what they buy, how they buy it and how they relate to it is very different than prior generations. It’s a very fast-moving market.”. million, including fees.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Experiential marketing is one of the most commonly discussed and executed strategies in the 2020 connected commerce world. Anthropologie , for its part, is renowned for its creativity and innovation in experiential marketing, while Macy’s is focusing on experiential stores as part of its comeback plan for the year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We have deep dives into unattended retail, rapid settlements and cybersecurity, as well as news on Mastercard receiving the go-ahead from China’s central bank to set up a bank clearing business. Mastercard Gets Nod To Join China’s $27T Payments Market. a share with a market cap of $14.6 As of Friday (Feb. Sound familiar?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2016

A lot of millennials are still living at home with their parents, but as more and more of them begin moving out in the coming years, they could have a significant impact on both the housing and rental markets. So what will fuel this significant growth in new millennial households?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Those promise to stand as two main traits of the 2018 holiday shopping season , and retailers that gain an edge and increase revenue during the all-important fourth quarter will likely have exploited such tactics during this period, at least according to new data that strives to paint a detailed picture of U.S. percent, reaching $124.1

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JUNE 29, 2018

That bet could complicate, in a positive way, some of the general ideas out there about the preferences of millennial consumers. The integration of such tools is designed with those millennials in mind, part of the company’s effort to gain more revenue from a new generation of drivers. Not So Much About Tech As Marketing.

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MAY 26, 2017

Millennials are never, ever going to buy homes. Why millennials are never going to buy homes is more of a jump ball. According to the National Federation of Retailers, 81 percent of millennials report at least aspiring to homeowners as hip, even if they aren’t there yet.

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APRIL 30, 2019

The rise of smart vending machines, driven by data and contactless payments, has the power to upend the way we shop, building loyalty and speeding adoption of contactless payments along the way. The Changing Retail Footprint. This has become an irreversible trend,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

While personalization can bring in customers, it turns out many retailers don’t venture into that personalization realm at all. However, 64 percent say they do use marketing technology to support the retailers’ personalization efforts. At the same time, personalization is a touchy subject.

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MAY 1, 2020

Like many retailers, Tradesy opened 2020 with great expectations and big plans. Significant growth in terms of their active user base and revenue were on the agenda — to be supported by a major investment in marketing to get the word out about the Tradesy peer-to-peer (P2P) market model and its advantages for both buyers and sellers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this case, it’s the gap between interest and intent, the chasm that lies between consumer awareness of unattended retail and actually taking the plunge in buying at the kiosk and vending machine. At a high level, according to PYMNTS data , unattended retail is reaching only one-tenth of its potential.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2016

But just when the last iPods started giving way to entirely online streaming services, millennial audiophiles suddenly fell back in love with vinyl records — a music format they never even knew growing up. How curious, it seems, that a similar thing is happening between millennial shoppers and mobile and physical coupons.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Retailers should take initiative in communicating with shoppers — especially younger ones — by email rather than social media channels, a new report by Bluecore found. And, said half of those surveyed, smart devices are the conduits for reading those emails.

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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. In its effort to do so, Gravy doesn’t seek to make money selling the actual goods — it seeks to market the actual stage.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

While “reselling” or “secondary market” are more likely to keep ownership of this burgeoning market, the reselling market is reinventing itself for 2020. Nordstrom joins other department stores in the resell market. More data on the market comes from sneaker and streetwear reseller StockX. It says some 57.5

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JUNE 21, 2018

The old model of opening a retail store with merchandise as a main focus of the space may not appeal to today’s consumers – millennials in particular. Cities such as Plano hold promise for retail, for example, as they are fast-growing locations with many employers. This generation values experiences, not just tangible goods.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Recent data shows that while millennial and Generation Z consumer groups certainly consider themselves to be digital shoppers — nearly 86 percent of millennials consider that to be the case, according to one recent report — large percentages of them still head to physical stores on a regular basis to shop.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Resale retail is a rapidly exploding business — particularly if one happens to be in the business of reselling clothes. According to thredUP’s most recent resale retail report, annually resale retail clocks in as a $40 billion industry, 49 percent of which ($18 billion) alone is apparel sales.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to a new LexisNexis study , overall retail fraud attempts doubled year-over-year and tripled since 2017. The rise of mobile commerce and selling of digital goods has added to retailers’ fraud problems. In fact, North America’s top 1000 online retailers have sold $143 billion worth of goods to customers outside the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

Target is not the first retailer to go to market with a mobile payments app. Millennials — Target’s main user base — are also mobile payments’ most likely users. According to eMarketer data, about a third of millennial smartphone users will use mobile payments this year.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For the connected consumer , connected commerce will be 100 percent digital , especially as the bridge millennials wield spending power across the next several decades. Data: 56: Number of real-time payments systems slated to be live or underway by 2020. trillion: The value of the leveraged loan market, as estimated by the FSB. .

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

The latest to report, Wine.com – which bills itself as the nation’s leading online wine retailer – earned $165 million in revenue and saw 25 percent growth for fiscal 2020, ending March 31. Revenue from millennials and younger age groups topped $50 million, an increase of 77 percent. out of 10 on “likelihood to recommend.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As spotlighted in the Digital Banking Tracker , the global digital banking market is slated to grow by 16 percent, compounded annually. As many as 72 percent of bridge millennials say mobile apps are important for accessing bank accounts. In terms of technology, APIs help facilitate access to that data.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Data: $10 billion: Current value of the global digital identity market. 24 percent: Share of millennials who are credit union members. The challenge for the digital economy is to find ways to fill those gaps as efficiently as they expose their existence. 46 percent: Share of B2B payments made by check. percent: Share of U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Plagued for the last several years by complaints about clunky styling, the latest RBC Capital Markets survey indicates that Banana Republic’s data would best be represented by the sound of 505 young women vomiting. We think repairing Banana Republic will be a longer battle,” wrote RBC Capital Markets Analyst Brian Tunick.

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