PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2017

It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

So-called fast fashion has been a big player in retail for years, but that part of the commerce-and-apparel world is facing some serious challenges. The bankruptcy filing was a dim commentary on a trend that largely appealed to young women, and which has sat high in the world of retail for a good decade or more.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Fashion retailer Forever 21 revealed that it has suffered a data breach at some of its stores. According to news from Fortune , customer payment card information was compromised at certain point of sale devices in stores when the encryption on those devices was not operating.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

“Improving engagement” has become just another platitude in retailers’ back pockets as they figure out which channel of the increasingly fragmented online world they should focus on, but Nordstrom may have struck gold with a new Snapchat-centered production.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

Retailers lose out on an estimated $236 billion worth of sales annually because they create difficult or frustrating shopping and checkout experiences. Consumers aren’t digital novices anymore, and they keep expecting more from eCommerce operators. That’s why it is important for retailers to meet consumers on their own terms.

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NCR

JUNE 29, 2016

Coming of age during the last recession and being subjected to the barrage of headlines about financial executives misbehaving, many Millennials are distrustful of established financial brands and institutions. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. 21), the latest commerce operator to be on the verge of extinction in this age of digital and mobile. though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. “As Another one seems ready to bite the dust.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Americans, especially millennials, are hungry for restaurant innovation. Unattended retail technology, or order-at-the-table systems, has become an increasingly popular form of modern technology at restaurants. A new kind of tableside service.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Over a year of research, development and beta testing, Shopkick Grocery was found to increase consumer basket sizes to $59 in grocery, drugstore and retail spend per trip versus the $32 national average. Retail brands and partners for Shopkick include Best Buy, Clorox, Nestle and Starbucks, among others.

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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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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2017

Before a certain social media giant started participating in the chatbot scene, consumers were required to download various apps on their devices for access. After the social media site’s Messenger announcement last April, we’ve seen more businesses clamoring to move into the chatbot game.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with its new Messenger product for kids — this and more of the latest news from the Frightful Five, just in case you missed it. Microsoft.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Thanks to a large unbanked population and growing importance of the millennial customer, the digital-first bank business model is spreading not just in developed economies but also emerging markets like those in Asia.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Today, the brand is very different than the soap-making operation that was formerly run out of its founders’ kitchen. 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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

30 kickoff in Atlanta will include access to experts from Visa and entrepreneurs operating both nationally and globally. These entrepreneurs would like to sharpen their social media skills to broaden reach and grow their firms. An inaugural Jan. For example, Simon said, the Jan. India and Mexico.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

It has been a particularly grim retail season for the mall staples that defined landscape of the late ’90s and early 2000s. Karen Webster described this scenario in 2014 as The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral. “So Same-store sales in retail locations were up on average 1 percent from the same time in 2015.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

According to a recent study by Citibank , 31 percent of consumers use their mobile banking app more than any other — placing mobile banking behind only social media and weather for most frequented mobile destinations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Richard Noguera , chief information security officer at Yapstone , discussed the findings of the playbook titled “ Meeting the Millennial Need For AI-Powered Visual Shopping.”. In most retail verticals, Noguera said, the approach can be somewhat scientific, based clearly on past purchasing behavior.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2018

million in a Series B funding round to expand its operations. That round was led by Japanese travel operator H.I.S. — a pairing that might seem a bit odd, as H.I.S is a 38-year-old travel operator that employs close to 17,000 people with offices in over 150 cities in 80 countries worldwide. They reported about $5.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. Millennials and Gen Z are driving the growth of the secondhand market and eCommerce, generally. Social Media. Online Resale.

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Insights on Business

APRIL 28, 2017

Recently, new digital technologies – driven by cloud, mobile, social media and analytics – have significantly lowered entry barriers and put customers much more at the center of the banking relationship. Key to designing great products is thinking like a retailer.

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ForwardBanker

AUGUST 19, 2016

Many financial institutions don’t want to admit it, but the truth is simple – financial institutions are retailers. If you are not operating that way, you are missing key opportunities to engage with consumers and provide them solutions based on their needs. Think about it.

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ForwardBanker

AUGUST 19, 2016

Many financial institutions don’t want to admit it, but the truth is simple – financial institutions are retailers. If you are not operating that way, you are missing key opportunities to engage with consumers and provide them solutions based on their needs. Think about it.

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PYMNTS

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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Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

That’s why digital capabilities have revolutionized every industry from retail and healthcare to banking—if the same services can be had from half a world away, and for a lower cost, why not avail of them? No one understands this trend better than those pesky millennials. Some online-only startup, with operations based overseas?

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

A whopping 63 percent of millennials (ages 18 to 29) don’t have a credit card, according to a survey commissioned by Bankrate and compiled by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The same Economist article pointed out that one in 10 millennials have hung up in frustration when dealing with call centers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Text messaging, social media, Pinterest and memes have all been offered up as avatars of destruction — and the general consensus seems to be that the death of conversation is a direct result of the digital age and probably has something to do with millennials. When consumers are finished with the cars they return them to Fair.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2018

Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. Download this research briefing to see how corporates and startups are shaping the future of retail with tech. E-Commerce .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Census Bureau still wants us to believe that 90 percent of retail sales still happen in the physical store. Meanwhile, operating system upgrades give consumers the benefits of new features on older handsets – for free. And it is the business of retail now. For PayPal – any digital wallet, really – that’s scary.

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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. Gyms are also being leveraged as retail partners.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Diana Chin (HR & Operations). Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. If you have a large retail investor base, and no resources to interact with them, then perhaps there some value? ^SR. Svyatoslav Ostrovsky (Head of Retail Digital Business).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Despite the rather sobering results — and a dearth of retailers specializing in Billabong’s vertical — Fiske believes the firm is actually demonstrating signs of turning a corner this quarter, and that it has many “opportunities for sustained earnings growth” ahead of it. “We RVCA goodwill value was cut from $78.1 million to zero.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Speaking the the problem of food waste at restaurant and retailers so I’m assuming there is a new tech that would enable merchants to better know their unsold food (which could be used for food banks). Silver 6 operates as Software as a Service (SaaS), so that means no IT and no infrastructure required. ^SR. This is great.

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