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Weddings, The Millennial Way? There’s A Marketplace For That

PYMNTS

Courtesy of the relationship and romance experts at PYMNTS, here is one of the few obvious statements that still manages to convey deep and eternal wisdom: Weddings are not for the fainthearted. All this new revenue is going from the cities where most millennials live to the countryside,” he said. An Idea is Born.

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Why Visa Is Starting A Conversation About Millennial Females and Money

PYMNTS

In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, women weren’t even legally allowed to own high-heel shoes for fear they would ensnare unwitting men into marriage on false pretenses. Millennial women are evolving into very [a] different relationship with money,” said Reilly. Though the progress has been slow, it has also been steady.

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8 Connected-Economy Firms Expected To Light Up The IPO Market In 2021

PYMNTS

Robinhood offers an easy-to-use app to trade stocks commission-free, making the company popular with millennials. Online games platform Roblox recently pushed its planned initial public offering from 2020 to 2021 after Airbnb and DoorDash’s big first-day pops convinced management that an overheated IPO would mostly benefit speculators.

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The Wonder Of Wegmans

PYMNTS

When its first Massachusetts store opened last year, 2,000 people lined up to get inside. Inside each Wegmans is the equivalent of 8 to 10 other supermarkets,” noted Burt Flickinger, who is the managing director of consumer industry consulting firm Strategic Resource Group Flickinger. Wegmans was prescient,” on grocery analyst noted.

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Retail Bedfellows Roundup: Staples Shares Space, Affirm Finances Life Experiences

PYMNTS

Sure, one could sit back in an armchair and chalk it all up to irascible millennials, but Staples is taking the proactive approach and making sure it can provide the right office supplies, however — and wherever — its consumers want them. “People are everywhere,” Jacobson said. “People are living in all different places.

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This Week In Insurance Tech: Policygenius Raises $100M, Lemonade Enters Pet Insurance, Nationwide Expands Digital Footprint

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Boost Insurance , a New York-based B2B digital insurance platform, raised a $14M Series A led by Coatue Management, and Conversion Capital. Coalition , a San Francisco-based digital cyber insurance managing general agent (MGA), acquired BinaryEdge , a Switzerland-based cybersecurity company, for an undisclosed amount. . PARTNERSHIPS.

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Chapter 11 Watch: Hockey Chain Put On Ice, California Livin’ Goes Bust In Hong Kong

PYMNTS

Brick-and-mortar retail will forever remember the day that Nintendo released Pokémon GO , a mobile game that has caused millions of millennials to suddenly discover outside again. “Total Hockey is asking for the court to approve a sale process that would culminate in an auction the last week of July.”