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Samsung Electronics Opens Massive Store In India

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Samsung Electronics , the South Korean consumer electronics company, is expanding in India, opening on Tuesday (Sept. According to a report in Reuters , citing Samsung Electronics, the 33,000-square-foot store is located in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru. So we are very much focusing on millennials who cannot afford the flagship.

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Five Innovative Ways Consumers Shop In The Digital Age

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Find out how retailers are enabling purchases in stores as well as through apps, smart speakers and smart watches with new and innovative payment methods: A little more than eight in 10 — or 81 percent — of consumers travel to a store to make a purchase. And if a customer uses Samsung Pay to buy those offers.

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This Week’s Reads: Millennials, Mobile Payments, Innovation

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Millennials likely to embrace nontraditional services: According to a recent survey conducted for FICO, millennials (aged 18-34) are more likely to use nontraditional services like Apple Pay or Google Wallet, proving that banking alternatives have the potential to grow rapidly if properly designed and executed.

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Look To Gen Z For More Retail Trend-Setting

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Forget millennials – well, at least for a moment. So-called Generation Z is also driving much of the innovation when it comes to retail. The items are sold in small quantities to catch the interest of Generation Z and millennial consumers who aren’t interested in buying in bulk. Take Target, for instance. Gen Z Trends.

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TRENDING: Putting Car-Shopping, Payments In The Mobile Fast Lane

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It’s time to shift gears when it comes to a commonly held perception about millennials and vehicle ownership. After years of believing millennials were disavowing the practice, recent studies indicate the millennial generation is kicking the tires on the concept of owning or leasing their own set of wheels after all.

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The Big Voice Showdown In Vegas

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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.

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Why Credit Unions Can’t Take Member Trust For Granted

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That’s reflected in data (this is Data Drivers, after all) from the Credit Union Innovation Index , a joint effort between PSCU and PYMNTS. PYMNTS and PSCU found that 59 percent of credit union members said they want innovation, though it wouldn’t necessarily sway them to choose one CU over another. Avoiding Complacency. His Advice.