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How Millennials Are Propelling Halloween To New Retail Heights

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Retailers are set to clean up this Halloween, as 2017 is looking to be a record-setter for consumer spending during the holiday. 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 billion, up 8.3 billion, up 8.3

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Super Saturday’s Secret Strength

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While Black Friday gets all of the press, Super Saturday has been creeping up in recent years to become the holiday season’s secret second pole of retail action. Black Friday has become an increasingly artificial phenomenon, driven more by retailer promotion than by its date on the calendar,” said Schrieber. So Why The Switch?

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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. communities. Government Efforts.

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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.” In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending.

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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? Best Free Market Research a Retail Banker Will Ever Get. Maybe nobody can get that many retailers to agree on anything. The take-away?

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