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Baby Boomers Vs. Millennials: Eerily Similar?

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While most millennials were brought up in the age of the computer, baby boomers can remember a time when they weren’t surrounded by technology. It’s a peculiar dichotomy to compare millennials to their parents’ generation, the baby boomers. percent, millennials (who are in part to blame for this) aren’t the main contributing factor.

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What’s Under The Millennial Christmas Tree This Year?

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“Sneakers, of course, are always popular,” and that popularity looks likely to hold well after the 2019 holiday shopping season — thanks to the preferences of younger shoppers, including millennials and Generation Z. Sneakers used to be functional, but now, they are part of who you are,” he added. That’s not all.

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Amid Changing Lifestyles, Homebuying To Continue Torrid Pace?

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Behind the data lie a slew of lifestyle changes and demographic shifts, which may have positive ripple effects for the SMBs that line Main Street, and bode well for consumer spending trends overall. To that end, and in terms of the data announced by the National Association of Realtors, existing home sales grew by 9.4 million units.

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Apple Pay, X-Border Invoices, Quick Accept Top This Week’s News

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Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral. Main Streets will have to change to receive the social proof and vibe that made them so successful. The rollout of Apple Pay has long been viewed as Apple’s attempt at supplanting shoppers’ utilization of tangible cards for in-store purchases as their main payment method.

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Live Christmas Tree Industry Uses Digital To Beat Back Artificial Rivals

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To learn more about why, PYMNTS this past week caught up with Doug Hundley, a spokesperson for the National Christmas Tree Association. The online retailer sold smaller versions of the trees last year, but online orders of Christmas trees made up only a small portion of overall sales of the trees. An longstanding adage — cliché?

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Amazon Pay’s Gauthier: No One Can Predict Retail’s Future, So Innovate Around What Won’t Change

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But nowadays, “every decision that we make — ‘Should I go to the grocery store or should I order my groceries online and then pick them up from the curb? Should I leverage the online capabilities?’ — taxes that budget,” Gauthier said. Should I buy this car?’” Should I send my kids to school or not?

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Has the phone replaced the branch for millennials?

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For example, 59 percent of millennials have made a peer-to-peer (P2P) digital payment via a mobile device, compared with just 34 per cent of adults across all age groups. Meanwhile, 35 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds said they would rather make P2P payments using biometric technology, whereas the national average was just 30 per cent.