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Who needs millennials?

Chris Skinner

I have had many, many conversations about reaching the millennial customer. We need to be attractive to millennials? Millennials think differently, how do we reach them? Millennials are rejecting banks, is that right? The challenge today is to think like a Millennial. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Target Pilots Buy Now Pay Later With Sezzle

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Sezzle , the installments payments platform, will be working on buy now, pay later (BNPL) services with Target , a press release says, which will test how the popular payment trend works with the retail giant's operations. Bork is responsible for Sezzle’s large-scale acquisition efforts.

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Alphabet’s New CEO, Millennial Black Friday Spending And Digital Drivers’ Licenses Top This Week’s News

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We have a deep dive into Colorado’s digital driver’s license effort and news on Alphabet’s new CEO, as well as data on millennial Black Friday spending. Millennials Were Black Friday’s Big Spenders in 2019. Millennials were the big Black Friday spenders , shelling out an average of $509.50 Top News . operations.

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For Macy’s and Men’s Wearhouse, No Millennial Tux and Tails Tailwind

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It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms. Now that seems to be true even in fashion.

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Ex-Snap CSO Rivals Amazon With eCommerce Startup Verishop

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Imran Khan, who spent three years at Snap as chief strategy officer, has created a new retail company, Verishop , which aims to “bring joy back to online shopping, and do it at scale with the ease of online purchasing and fast delivery we’ve all come to expect.” Finders Keepers and N:Philanthropy. ”

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The Hybrid Workplace is One Huge Work-In-Process for Banks

Gonzobanker

As bank executives navigate rising rates, margin compression and recession risk in 2023, a striking reality has seeped into leadership meetings: the hybrid workplace is here to stay, and there’s a ton of strategic ramifications to this new aspect of the business.

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Walmart Jumps On Digital Bedding Bandwagon With Allswell

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Following in the footsteps of Target, West Elm and Pottery Barn, big-box retailer Walmart will be releasing its own line of home goods, mattresses and bedding. An emphasis on “the company’s expanding base of customers,” according to Retail Dive , suggests Walmart may be playing to an audience outside of its usual shopper base.

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