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Shifting The Used Car Market Into Overdrive

PYMNTS

Via online and mobile it has introduced artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology in pricing cars as well as qualifying for financing. 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.

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Frugal Consumers Buying More Off-Brand, Off-Price Products

PYMNTS

Heck, even dollar stores have been making a comeback of late, fueled in large part by those cost-conscious millennials. More than half of them are 45 or above, according to the study, while millennials only make up 16 percent of this demographic. So, what’s going on here? Have consumers just suddenly become very cheap?

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Warby Of X: MiaDonna Delivers Lab-Grown Diamonds

PYMNTS

But purchasing high-value diamonds online — whether they be traditional or lab-grown — is still a process that comes with risk and uncertainty. Andrew Puddifoot, GM of MiaDonna, shared with PYMNTS how the eCommerce bridal jewelry business is bringing value to the engagement ring shopping journey both online and in its physical showroom.

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How Urban Outfitters Was A Q1 Sleeper Success Story

PYMNTS

Urban Outfitters determined, by looking at the spend data on older millennial females, that there was possibly a largely under-pursued market for people who were less interested in being forever 21, and a lot more interested in just being fashionably 30. The Quiet eCommerce Mover.

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Millennials Not Alone in Fleeing Big Banks

NCR

The 24-year-old consults with companies worldwide on how to reach the millennial audience. So last year, the New York resident left the big bank, setting up an account with Simple, an FDIC-insured direct bank based in Portland, Oregon, where he can do all of his banking online – without any monthly fees. “I

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Fintech Fundings: 36 Companies Raise $480 Million Week Ending March 18

Fintech Labs Insights

Alt-lender targeting millennials . HQ: Portland, Oregon. Tags: Compliance, online banking, session recording, transcribing, archives. Total raised: $7.85 HQ: Los Angeles, California. Source: Crunchbase. Latest round: $5.6 million Series A. Total raised: $305.6 million (unknown mix of Debt/Equity). HQ: California.

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