PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2016

There was a point not too long ago when online-only merchants were happy to thumb their noses at the stodgy paradigm of brick-and-mortar retail, but nowadays, even the chicest brands on either side of the divide know they can’t afford to miss out on any selling opportunity.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

But at roughly the same time that Markle was modeling their wares at a royal gathering, Club Monaco was doing something designed to perhaps push an even greater “pop” for their retail presence than the enthusiasm of a princess (or, technically, duchess). Pop-up stores.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

For grocery workers, who are deemed in the “essential” retail category, relief has been slow in coming. Gig workers, according to the data, are majority millennials and bridge millennials, though that is shifting as the gig economy becomes more popular among demographic sets and Generation Z consumers are increasingly coming of age.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

But direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail is undergoing some significant changes, which could help strengthen DTC activities for years to come. Personalization is among the trends gaining fuel in the DTC world, reflecting larger changes in the retail world. One recent example comes from Los Angeles-based Pepper.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

With traditional brick-and-mortar retail facing big problems , some chains are addressing them with small solutions. Is this a viable answer to the beating that Sears’ bottom line (and that of many other one-time stalwarts of brick-and-mortar retail) have been taking in recent years? Specifically, with small(er) stores.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

With brick-and-mortar retailers closing hundreds of stores, the future of the mall has looked bleak. And according to a report in The Wall Street Journal , immersive destinations that give consumers an experience they can’t get anywhere else could be just the thing to save the retail spaces. was crawling out of the last recession.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

If the seller is still interested Shift personnel will pick up the car from one of its hubs (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and Portland) and pay the seller via ACH transfer. The company has also digitized the repair schedule, launching digital maintenance appointments for its Los Angeles and San Francisco hubs.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

After experimenting with pop-up shops, mattress retailer Casper has decided to open a permanent store. At the time, the company said the shops were open in cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago through spring 2018. The company’s first brick-and-mortar location will be in New York City, The Washington Post reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The New York City startup ships foam mattresses, folded up in a box, directly to customers’ doors, making it popular among urban, millennial and college demographics. These shops will be open in cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago through spring 2018. in October.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to “The State of Consumer Spending: Gen Z Shoppers Demand Sustainable Retail” from FirstInsight , 62 percent of Generation Z survey participants prefer to buy from sustainable brands, on par with millennials. More than 27 percent of orders had retail multiples less than 1x, which means they sold for under retail.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers in the U.S. AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2016

With California’s recent move marking the boldest effort to date to address the wage gap affecting hourly workers, it — and the inherent pressure it puts on other states to make similar strides of their own, regardless of movement (or lack thereof) at the federal level — puts the retail industry in particular in the national spotlight.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Here are some of the other big winners and losers of the retail game at the moment. Wells Fargo settled the investigation, which was sparked by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Los Angeles prosecutor, last week by agreeing to pay a fine of $185 million.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Car-shopping app Fair was launched in Los Angeles in September by Scott Painter, Fair founder and former CEO of TrueCar, with plans to expand to more markets in 2018. The millennial factor. Fair’s phone-first approach to vehicle shopping was designed for millennials, he explained. percent compared to the 12.09

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

It’s no secret: Millennials are saddled with student loan debt, and they’re facing more expensive rent. The company does have a membership base desirable to brands — hard-to-reach millennials. While Joymode is currently in Los Angeles, the company hopes to expand to other locations in the future.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

7), the transit-as-a-service operator is offering car and truck owners looking to offload their vehicles a deal: Sell those vehicles via online retail service Carvana and get in return $250 worth of Lyft credits, plus three months of free membership in Lyft’s new Lyft Pink membership subscription program.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

With millennials working multiple gigs, very few have enough time left to make a proper meal — if they aren’t eating out at a local restaurant. Blue Apron opened up an experiential pop-up retail location in New York City, which featured cooking classes and celebrity chefs. The pop-up opened after Memorial Day and closed in late June.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

As a result T-shirts are sold just about everywhere, at just about every type of apparel retailer and at a stunningly wide array of price points. The tees and hoodies are all manufactured in Los Angeles. And pretty much everyone wears them regardless of demographic profile. A shopper can pay $3.42

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The brand has been well-known among Generation Z and millennial consumers for several years – particularly those into the clubbing and music festival scene. These are the types of things one can expect to find on the Dolls Kill online shopping portal – as well as off the rack in their San Francisco and Los Angeles physical locations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The platform, however, also has some city listings, like a cottage in the vicinity of London’s Kensington Palace and a Los Angeles French country-style mansion. Activities marketplace Fixers , for instance, sees millennials as their target market, as they tend to prefer experiences over things.

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Payments Los Angeles Innovation Millennials 125

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Coinsource, America’s largest bitcoin ATM provider, just announced proudly that the company now has 55 ATM kiosks, after adding six new ones in California — four in Los Angeles and two in San Francisco. Research says millennials love gift cards , so that may be a way to create a budding bitcoin trend.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2018

SkyHi’s bread and butter is leisure travelers, particularly millennials between the ages of 23 and 27. He has also considered offering tickets for longer distances — say, Los Angeles to New York — and wants to encourage “a world where people do have more travel in their life and it’s super easy.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Cohen owns a national distribution network and deals with some of the nation’s biggest retailers. His aim is to change the way that the thousands of cases of retail goods are stored, handled and hauled. But it’s not just the retailers trying to cut costs who are embracing technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

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? Pop-up flights are special services scheduled around popular events that can be difficult to get to by traditional airline.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

Every few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials are killing home ownership. Millennials aren’t shunning luxury goods; they’re just renting them instead of buying. Millennials are in debt.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

market with limited trialing of its services in Los Angeles: to date, it reports 3.7 This is not the same as eCommerce putting pressure on traditional retail because banking is a very different animal obviously.”. The funds, according to reports , will go toward fueling expansion into new markets, notably the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

” Among millennials, 60 percent are in favor of more auto-drive and park-assist features in their cars. Hackers gain entry to a retailer’s systems to steal credit card numbers, or they slip past a health care insurer’s firewalls to peek at Social Security IDs and other personal information.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

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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CB Insights

AUGUST 9, 2017

From Marriott opening its first modular hotel, to tech giants like Alphabet investing in modular housing, to Japanese retailer Muji launching prefab micro-homes, offsite construction methods are gaining traction. The company recently announced plans to grow their portfolio across new sectors such as retail and healthcare. EMAGISPACE.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

To PNC , who at BAI Retail Delivery pointed to hiring a behavioral psychologist to review its origination process. Millennials. Mom’s Donuts , in a strip mall right next to Junior’s Liquors off the freeway east of Los Angeles. Jill’s use of Twitter is a model for any bank CEO looking to engage on social media.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

A millennial Los Angeles Magazine writer did an extensive deep dive on the subject last spring, and determined that supermarkets are a lot like singles bars and clubs – you can meet someone at any of them, but meeting the right person requires picking the right venue. And the cheese section, my God!”.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Best Free Market Research a Retail Banker Will Ever Get. see https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-01/this-is-how-a-banker-in-brooklyn-makes-money-on-millennials ). A Shout Out for a Gutsy Call – Scott Reckard, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, who first wrote about Wells Fargo’s branch pressure tactics in 2013.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Best Free Market Research a Retail Banker Will Ever Get. A Shout Out for a Gutsy Call – Scott Reckard, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, who first wrote about Wells Fargo’s branch pressure tactics in 2013. Maybe nobody can get that many retailers to agree on anything. The take-away?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. It’s an experience that retailers are embracing and investing heavily in. Consider this.

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