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How Millennials Are Propelling Halloween To New Retail Heights

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That growth appears to be driven by millennials, with responses to a recent Citibank poll indicating survey participants between the ages of 18 and 36 expect to spend 2.5 Increased millennial spending comes despite the fact that the demographic is the one that most needs to save money, CitiBank noted in the article. billion, up 8.3

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities.

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Super Saturday’s Secret Strength

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Chicago; Miami and Los Angeles. Other than regional, the big shifts this year are generational. Baby boomers continue to be early shoppers; millennials, on the other hand, shop later in the season and later in the day. Good news for merchants — those millennials are spending more. Overall basket size was up 12.7

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Coachella By The Numbers Looks More Like Cashella

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However, there are only about 16,000 hotel rooms in the region and 125,000 concertgoers who need a place to sleep. Private aviation companies JetSuiteX and JetSmarter are offering pop-up flights from Los Angeles to the festival. Why book a regular old flight or road trip when you could be flying on a semi-private jet?

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The Week In Payments: China, China, Challenger Banks And Bitcoin

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If they can get it under control quickly, it will even then have an impact on GDP and the hundreds of brands that are in the Wuhan region. market with limited trialing of its services in Los Angeles: to date, it reports 3.7 “It depends a little on how this plays out. If it goes on, it could have significant economic impacts.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” Brick-and-mortar businesses have been hammered over the past decade — with the exception of one bright spot.

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THE 16TH ANNUAL GONZOBANKER AWARDS

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Mergerama Region of the Year – The Midwest: Huntington-First Merit, Chemical-Talmer, Old National-Anchor … the list goes on. Or the need to take market share in a slowest growth region? see https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-01/this-is-how-a-banker-in-brooklyn-makes-money-on-millennials ). Is it in the water?

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