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Shifting The Used Car Market Into Overdrive

PYMNTS

He is the cliché of a profession that has a lot of suede sheen on it, but at least one company is in the market to bring used car sales into the digital future. “We It’s hard to imagine that there’s so much technology and innovation happening up and down the mobility spectrum except for in this market — and it’s a $1.4

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Enticing Millennials With Experiences Using ?Neighborhood Goods?

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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. In general, he said, many brands find the Dallas-Fort Worth area to be among their top cities, and markets such as Plano are less costly to open in than those larger cities.

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Sephora’s High-Tech, Social Justice Case For Cosmetics

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The French cosmetics chain announced Saturday (March 5) that it had officially opened the Sephora Innovation Lab, a research space located in San Francisco where the retailer will test its own and sponsored partners’ innovations for in-store and online retail.

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Retail Pulse: IKEA To Open ‘Planning Studio’ In NYC; Pizza Hut Will Acquire QuikOrder

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Younger shoppers, however, are still seeking out places like IKEA even in the age of online shopping: A Home Furnishing News survey found that brick-and-mortar stores provided 63 percent of indoor furniture purchased by millennials. As it stands, Amazon Go stores in Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco use the cashierless technology.

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Transformation Time Bomb?

Independent Banker

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. When it comes to finance, millennials are a generation known to be conservative in spending and distrustful of financial institutions. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement.

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How Secondhand Marketplace thredUP Is Using AI To Personalize Shopping

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One-third of Gen Z members and more than one-quarter of millennials will make secondhand purchases in 2019 due to environmental concerns and cheaper prices, for example. The online thrifting market combines both of these factors, making it especially popular among both demographic groups.

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Why Technology Is Actually Helping Cash Thrive

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market, they are still far from replacing cash. And according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, “… cash remains a unique, resilient and heavily used consumer payment instrument.”. percent and 15.5 percent of the gross domestic product. percent in 2015. Paid in cash, pay in cash.