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Deep Dive: Keeping Up With Bridge Millennials’ Retail Impact

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Bridge millennials’ rise is changing the retail ecosystem ahead of the 2019 holiday season, but their impacts will continue to be felt in the year ahead. Bridge millennials are consumers aged 30 to 40 whose shopping and financial preferences straddle Gen X and millennial demographics.

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Retail Feels The Wide Impact Of Bridge Millennials

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Among the forces working to influence and change retail — and do so into the 2019 holiday shopping season, as well as the 2020s — is the rise of bridge millennials. Having had the time to establish their careers, they enjoy higher spending power than younger millennials, who are just now dipping their toes into the professional world.

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The Retail Complexities Of Wooing Bridge Millennials

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The stated goal, according to new CEO Jim Brett, is for the brand to build back its audience, particularly among millennial shoppers. Teaming up with another retailer is not wholly new ground – some J.Crew and Madewell items are already on sale, and a partnership with Hudson Bay has already been announced. You can’t be one price.

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Melding Digital With Physical Rescues In-Store Retailing

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From where things stand in Q4 2020 it’s not hard to imagine physical retail going extinct. Noting the ways COVID has permanently changed retailing, CNBC recently reported , “As more and more stores go dark at the mall, some major retail executives are looking to grow outside of it — a tactic they hadn’t touted so publicly before.

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Why Retailers Should Stop Focusing On Millennials

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It seems that retailers and marketers don’t. With marketers clamoring to attract the fleeting attention of millennial and Gen Z shoppers, the older demographic (roughly between the ages of 53 and 71) is often overlooked. Nor should they assume that millennial-focused ads will trigger boomers’ desire for perennial youth.

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What Hath Bridge Millennials Wrought To Commerce And Payments?

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The new year will bring a new round of one of the hottest games in the payments-and-commerce world: What makes millennials tick? Census, millennials are 25 to 34 years old. The reason for that is because data shows a significant difference in payments and commerce between this segment and the Census view of millennials.

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Serving The Millennial Consumer With Convenient Offerings

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Reynolds Group Holdings is actively working to court the millennial market , which has a particularly strong focus on convenience. For this reason, the firm has focused keenly on recipe integration in recent years — and, as it turns out, millennials are excellent recipe followers. All this, Today in Data.