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Last Roar Of The Paper Tiger?

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Statistical swarms of millennials and Gen Zers report never having used a paper check. It got so bad that New York City became the first municipality in the nation to pass a law making it easier for freelancers to sue for payment. Their perception of banking, aside from ATMs, is entirely app-based – and mobile.

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eCommerce Site Jet To Offer Blue Apron’s Knick Knacks

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We are proud to introduce Knick Knacks as our latest culinary innovation, which gives consumers the ‘secret sauce’ – from our test kitchen to their home – to create a delicious meal, while allowing for the flexibility to customize certain ingredients based on their personal preferences.”. “We

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Banks Bring Coffee Shops To New Branches

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With the bank branch of the future, large institutions such as Capital One and Fifth Third are aiming to create spaces that appeal to millennials around Chicago that provide technical support, financial advice and — in some instances — cappuccino. Pepper debuted at HSBC’s flagship branch in New York City.

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Splitty Makes It Easier To Grab A Piece Of The Travel Industry

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Travel industry services are catering to the thousands of millennial and Gen Z travelers who are booking big trips by augmenting their platforms with online and mobile support. Competition among airlines, hotels and travel agencies is fiercer, but all these platforms are approaching travel innovation in similar ways.

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Making Shopping About The Shoppers (Again)

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One would expect that a event called the Retail Innovation Conference (RIC) would be a veritable brainstorm of big ideas as to how to improve the woeful retail space in the U.S.: Doesn’t it follow, then, that by working very hard to put innovative technologies in place in their operations, retailers are , in fact, focusing on the shopper?

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Physical Retail Looks For New Life This Holiday Season

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Both of those demographics surprisingly beat out millennials, at 53 percent, and Gen Z, at 46 percent. For instance, the new Nordstrom New York City store offers several different food and beverage locations, as well as the ability for shoppers to order food and have it delivered to them while they shop.

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Can ‘Elective’ Fees Work For Retail Banks?

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But that’s not stopping efforts at innovation and disruption in this space. Aspiration Bank is one of those innovators hoping to gain socially-conscious consumers via a pay-what-you-like fee structure — while also managing to please investors at the same time. New York City and the Bay Area combined,” he said.

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