PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

But what might be a bit unexpected is that this time around, Google and its Google Home Assistant are along for the ride. For the 2018 version, Google – in partnership with Disney and Random House – is rolling out an interactive storytelling feature in its Google Home technology.

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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. NEW DATA: Consumers Like Cashier-less Retail But Retailers Aren’t Hitting The Mark. Trackers and Reports. million consumers or 6.9

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Retail Cards Millennials Fraud 141

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. Hurdles For Larger Merchants.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

With the busy holiday season upon us, we are proud to offer a truly multi-channel payment solution that has proven to bring new customers and increased sales to our retail partners,” Afterpay Global Chief Revenue Officer Melissa Davis said in the announcement.

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Millennials Retail United States National 200

PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2017

Who’s smarter: Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home? In a study by New York-based digital agency 360i, researchers used proprietary new Voice Search Monitor (VSM) software to ask Alexa and Google the same set of 3,000 questions and found that Google Home was six times more likely to answer correctly. In Other News….

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Google Study Survey New York 115

PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

Millennials and Generation Z consumers get all of the attention when it comes to their changing digital habits amid the pandemic. Google the words “millennials shopping shift,” and page after page of listicles, think pieces and how-to articles appear. percent of bridge millennials and 53 percent of millennials.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Plans are afoot at Google to make the consumer experience better – and while that happens, millennials are increasingly turning to debit , which could have wide implications. 2,225: Average annual retail spending of consumers between the ages of 30 and 40.

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Millennials Payments Google Retail 104

PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. The study found that both millennials and non-millennials want to use mobile to manage finances, and cash is becoming less important to both groups.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

That trend was particularly pronounced among older “bridge millennials,” who on average owned six separate connected devices, not counting their phones. According to PYMNTS’ latest consumer data on the subject, 47 percent of millennials have shifted their routines online, while 45.1 percent of bridge millennials have done so.

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Technology Millennials Retail Report 205

PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Google Maps is getting more personal, and Nintendo is taking advantage of consumer nostalgia. Bridge Millennials And The Threat To Physical Retail. We called them Bridge Millennials. At 30 to 40 years of age, they are younger than Gen X-ers but older than most millennials. Finally, we look at Uber spending habits.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this case, it provided a really great opportunity to work closely with their whole team, and to learn about the impact of influence-based businesses on retail.”. The company had come a long way from its launch in 2014, when it had about 10 retailers signed on to offer Afterpay as a payment option during checkout.

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US Millennials Retail Payments 157

PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. There are so many levers to engage consumers” in rewards, said Wind, and whether it is tied specifically to a card or merchant, additional leverage can come through email marketing campaigns or percentage-off programs at retailers. credit cards, 1.3

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Retail UX Cards Branding 137

PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

Retailers are bolstering their supply chains in China as they seek to enhance their service and offer customers fresh products. The post also pointed out that the retailer invested over RMB 700 million – which is approximately $100 million – to create the South China Fresh Food Distribution Center. Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

Google also started an Order Online shortcut with results for people using Google Assistant on mobile phones, which also allows users to place orders using Google Pay. Also, 44 percent of millennials ordered from third-party services compared to 20 percent of all diners.

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Company Millennials Google Maine 130

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight and travel recommendations offering. The travel industry also is the site of recent retail-oriented innovation. Contextual Commerce.

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Google New York social media Retail 144

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

s largest convenience food retailers, Co-op has more than 2,600 stores and fuel sites across the country. Co-op customers in 30 food stores in England, Scotland and Wales will be able to scan products on their own device as they shop next month (August), with payment deducted from their Apple Pay or Google Pay accounts.

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Retail Millennials Mobile Operations 139

Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2018

On the surface, a financial services marketing strategy is not completely different than a marketing strategy for any other industry. The crucial difference, though, is the higher and more demanding standard that financial services have from their customers.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

And there’s no better way to target Millennial entrepreneurs than with the technology they crave to help them in their business pursuits. More than any other generation, Millennials experience life, work and business through technology and they expect seamless interactions regardless of location.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Accessing Amazon’s Alexa (13 percent) and Google Assistant (12 percent) through the dashboard were far less popular. But in-dash Google Assistant had a good deal of future interest: 31.9 Mobile Ordering Appeals to Millennials. percent said they would engage in commuter commerce if this option was available. percent vs. 45.8

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Millennials Google Mobile Report 184

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Additionally, certain voice assistants — Siri, Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa — have demonstrated that they could influence future purchasing activities to different degrees. The 2018 Digital Drive Report also looked at the in-vehicle purchasing habits of Bridge Millennials, a highly influential consumer bellwether.

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Data Millennials Report Google 173

PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

The company, which prides itself on determining which loan recipients are worthwhile, sees this money fueling its future growth and helping to license the technology to banks, credit unions and retailers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

Data: $800 billion+: Market cap of Google parent Alphabet. percent: Share of millennials who use mobile apps most frequently for planning in-store purchases. And the conventional wisdom on alternative lending comes in for a gut check as more merchants learn how to reverse the course on subscription churn.

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Payments Millennials Google Lending 130

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

With the app, Affirm users can shop at almost any retailer by creating a onetime-use virtual card instead of being limited to shops that have Affirm integrated at checkout. . The app also gives users the ability to pay at any brick-and-mortar store that accepts Apple Pay or Google Pay. .

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Payments Millennials Retail Cards 139

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Once upon a time, it was predicted that the rise of smartphones would spell the end of traditional retail, but that hasn’t really happened. And roughly one-third use their devices to “showroom” — one of retailers’ biggest fears a few years ago — to compare prices at competitors. How are consumers using mobile devices in-store?

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Mobile Study Retail Millennials 177

PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Though they’ve overcome serious technical hurdles, work well, and are now in the hands of billions of smartphone-owning consumers, mobile wallets including those from Big Tech players Apple and Google are starving for share as Q1 2020 usage slipped below an unimpressive 2019. Et tu , Millennials? Noting that Apple Pay enabled $4.5

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Mobile Apple Cards Millennials 140

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While beauty conglomerates like L’Oréal are making acquisitions to become more tech-enabled, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) are pursuing the high margins in beauty through partnerships, consumer insights, e-commerce, and more. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Source: Think with Google.

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Google Apple Industry Branding 72

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Pundits identify bellwether states to predict election outcomes.

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Millennials Study Course Trends 222

Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The retailer combines the in-store and app experience to enhance the customer buying process. A regional bank poll of millennials found that not one could name a community institution in their area. This requires additional spending.

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ABA Community Banking

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Survey indicates comfort with many nonbanks for financial services—and a twist Retail Banking Customers.

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Millennials Google Survey Retail 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

You will observe grocery, as a retail category, is very fragmented. billion fine onto Google, claiming that their product carousel ads created an unfair advantage to small guy retailers who didn’t have the money to advertise. I’ll point out that those retailers did, apparently, have the money to hire lawyers. Take Google.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

On the one hand, they’re using a relatively low-cost, unattended distribution method combined with even lower-cost word-of-mouth marketing, and the other hand, it’s one that’s associated with short-term, exclusive retail. It’s not just millennials and post-millennials using a free service any longer.

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Millennials Video Retail Regional 143

PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

When Amazon, the largest retailer by market cap, says that it had its best day ever , it’s hard not to call that a sizzle – and then some. Pokémon GO: Pet Rock or Opportunity To Rock Retail? There was even a promotional video that show combatants around the world fighting for the title of Google’s Pokemaster.

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Retail FDIC Bitcoin Lending 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The lucrative “ bridge millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high-earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent reporting ownership of a voice-activated device and 55 percent of those owners using them to make a purchase. Amazon’s Extensive Offerings.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

The online retail giant is set to release the Echo Show to the world on June 28 of this year. The Echo Show retails for $229.99 percent of market share by year’s end, followed not so closely behind by Google Home, with 23.8 percent increase in usage from 2016 — driven primarily by millennial consumer adoption.

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Google Millennials Samsung Video 108

PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

In the new year, it seems very fashionable for retailers to re-think global growth. General Mills is investing in kale to sprout growth , Mattel tapped a Google executive for its new CEO and handbag companies like Fendi are leaning on a pompom add-on to spur sales.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

From automakers to retailers and online platforms, companies around the world are tapping into connected commerce technology in automobiles and mobile devices. The portion of millennial parents who would rather not eat at all than wait in long QSR lines is 48 percent.

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Google Mobile Technology Retail 110

CB Insights

AUGUST 20, 2018

One retailer who isn’t millennial-obsessed. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft patent analysis. Today, we’re talking about senior care, the Ponzi scheme of ambition, Amazon patents, and more, including: It’s time for Uber to exit autonomous vehicles. WeWork China: Will it dominate, or retreat like Uber?

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