PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

It can be argued that some of the toughest buyers to keep in mind when planning out retail strategies are teenagers. While one day a teen may be into shopping strictly online, another day may see an offline preferred experience or a mixture of both, and retailers must be at the ready to transform engagement efforts at any given time.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Eleven James offers two main options for its services: The company can choose a watch for the consumer, or the consumer can make the choice. The Market and Millennials. Eleven James may also appeal to millennials, who don’t have that ownership mentality. Millennials currently make up about a third of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Revlon will be stamping its name on 10 million Amazon shipping boxes, said Internet Retailer , to make an impression on eCommerce shoppers (especially the coveted millennial cosmetics market) as part of a campaign called the Love Project. As PYMNTS reported in December , the beauty industry has become ruled by millennials.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

Verishop is targeting mainly younger, affluent and millennial shoppers. It has website tabs for picks from fashion and social media influencers as well as sustainably sourced products. The company continued, “They want to grow their businesses online to reach millennial shoppers, but few platforms align with their values.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2016

In fact, recent data from Mintel indicates that millennial dads could be the future of retail. Millennial dads view shopping with their kids as a way to bond and teach them valuable lessons,” the report said. Millennial dads view shopping with their kids as a way to bond and teach them valuable lessons,” the report said.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight and travel recommendations offering. The travel industry also is the site of recent retail-oriented innovation. Habibi asked. Travel Trends.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” The company owns 458 stores in the U.S., Another one seems ready to bite the dust. Larger Trends.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. They are increasingly seeing the upper-end of their prime demographic, a group PYMNTS titled bridge millennials.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Pundits identify bellwether states to predict election outcomes.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Indeed, as previously reported by PYMNTS , the beauty industry has become ruled by millennials, women between the ages of 18 and 34 being the main buyers, according to a survey by TABS Analytics. According to a release, the platform will continue to focus on its mission “to uplift, empower and validate women across the globe.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

Contextual commerce is an emerging force in online retail, and a topic recently discussed in-depth during a PYMNTS webinar featuring Karen Webster and Azita Habibi, business development lead at Braintree. First, here’s a quick definition of contextual commerce. It’s a process that revolves around “discovery,” according to Habibi.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Even people without a mind for business remember that motto as one of the guiding principles of retail and other forms of commerce — absorbed, perhaps, in a high school class or via any number of articles, TV shows, commercials or bits of pop culture that have riffed on that theme. Location , location, location. Mobile Bridges.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

Reviews are just one tool in Amazon’s arsenal — and the playbook of other eCommerce retailers — to reduce customer doubts and encourage consumers to complete the checkout process. But not all retailers offer these features. User reviews can make or break products that appear on eCommerce retail websites like Amazon.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2018

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. But online retail sales are hardly the only digital boost that digital technology gives to the sale of live Christmas trees, according to Hundley. Christmas Tree Landscape.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Each of the company’s bars uses its upcycled SuperGrain+ flour as the main ingredient. Beyond its website, the company’s products are in brick-and-mortar retailers such as Whole Foods and Gelson’s Market, among others. For promotion, the company is very active on social media and also has events. The Market.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

When Amazon, the largest retailer by market cap, says that it had its best day ever , it’s hard not to call that a sizzle – and then some. Pokémon GO: Pet Rock or Opportunity To Rock Retail? The Summer’s Best Retail Opportunity? . We found one gigundo sizzle and three moderately sized fizzles. Amazon Sellers .

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AUGUST 26, 2019

The brand’s popularity has not come from marketing – Herbivore spends very little on that – and instead has come from the word of mouth generated by their sizable and enthusiastic social media following. But Herbivore went from a hobby soap business to having nearly half a million enthusiasts following them on social media.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

As the prominent global video-commerce retailer, and North America’s third-largest mobile and eCommerce retailer, the combined company will be well-positioned to help shape the next generation of retailing.”. Phone orders from home-viewers are no longer the company’s main driver of revenue.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Three-quarters of the shoppers on the site are women buying for themselves, and about three-quarters of those women are millennials who passed the brand name around social media early in the firm’s evolution. Getting them onto the digital portal has been, if not easy, at least organic.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

Marketplaces such as Glamping Hub see that glamping is popular with two segments in particular: baby boomers and millennials. Another segment, millennials, are looking for unique destinations that can lend themselves to Instagram and other social media channels. The Great Outdoors.

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MAY 26, 2017

The lack of payment innovation could increasingly become an issue as more millennials become parents and consider activities for their families. According to a recent study , over 16 million millennial women (born between 1981 and 1997) have children, and that number is expected to grow.

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JULY 28, 2018

And while bargain retailers charge vanishingly small amounts for their goods, all of those little sales add up to some pretty amazingly large figures for bargain-hunting consumers. “We Part of it is a savvy social media-based distribution model through WeChat. We can’t remember [the] last time we left without spending $100!”

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

The startup drew jealous ire from competitor Facebook/Instagram , success from millennials and confused befuddlement from baby boomers this year, along with a $1.81 Amazon plans to add another 600 million to its retail family by breaking into Southeast Asia, starting with Singapore in the first quarter of 2017. Resolution: Study up. .

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Census Bureau still wants us to believe that 90 percent of retail sales still happen in the physical store. Alexa and Amazon have the majority share of that market and the wind at its back, as it strives to make Alexa that helpful, indispensable assistant across many financial, retail and payments experiences.

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MAY 1, 2020

Millennial and Gen Z stereotypes often revolve around being tied to smartphones or computer screens, but these consumers love the outdoors just as much as their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. That also means retailers are missing out on selling the high-margin specialized equipment that drives much of their annual sales.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The wellness trends is affecting everything from the way gyms operate to how retailers design clothing to how smart cities are designed. Notably, millennials are more lifestyle-focused, placing a greater value on health and wellness over material goods than ever before. Meet Maya, our hypothetical wellness-focused millennial consumer.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

And if that sounds a bit rich for your blood, the coming tidal wave of Baby Yoda merch heading toward our retail shores will likely be a crowd pleaser. People really do buy very different things and merchants are approaching the holiday in a more tactical way than ever before because consumers are — especially millennials,” Molnar said.

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

One of the most recent examples of that movement comes from Walmart , the venerable retail chain locked in mortal combat with Amazon, and Green Dot, the 20-year-old payment services provider that has managed to not only survive in a cutthroat industry, but innovate and thrive. Retail FinTech Trends. Omnichannel Power.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

A good education on this online retail trend — an education backed by original data — comes from Azita Habibi, business development lead at Braintree , a payments services firm owned by PayPal. Simply put, said Frieden, the car now “becomes an extension of the consumer’s home” across retail, fuel and convenience stores.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Four main strategies in the market today are helping players adjust to changing conditions across the CPG ecosystem. Retailers move downstream. Traditionally, companies like Kellogg’s and Covergirl don’t operate their own stores — they sell through Walmart, CVS, and other retailers. Brands move upstream.

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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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JUNE 4, 2018

Millennials loved it even more: Only 57 percent reported watching primetime TV live that year, opting instead to watch prerecorded and/or streaming video or to play video games. This innovation ushered in a sea change for consumers, content producers and content distributors. Observers : the 41.8 That’s not surprising.

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JULY 20, 2017

Consumers, especially millennials, are looking for products that promise not only to make them look better in the moment, but to improve the health of their skin or the quality of their hair over the long term. Social media-focused cosmetics brand spun out of a digital media group. Main Post Partners. Cosmethics.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

Millennials. million millennials, as reported by Pew Research Center , obtaining, maintaining and retaining consumers from this particular consumer segment is the golden ticket for retailers. As such, a key demographic of the millennial population on which retailers may want to zero in: the Hispanic group.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Bankrate found 83% of millennials don’t think they’ll ever retire: they simply “don’t think they’ll have the money” to do so.). In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending. in impressions.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. SOCIAL DISTANCING FORCES mental healthcare PROVIDERS and users TO embrace REMOTE SERVICES. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce ranks. But it only accounted for about 6% of the wider grocery retail market.

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MARCH 19, 2018

His premise knits together a series of storylines that regular readers of PYMNTS are quite familiar with: That the Amazon Effect on retail , despite the company’s 4 percent share of it, is real and that it uses its diversified sources of revenue, like Amazon Web Services, to subsidize its retail business at the expense of traditional retail.

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