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CVS Expands Membership Program Nationwide To Lure Millennials

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After successful test runs in Boston, Philadelphia and Tampa, the CVS membership program CarePass will expand nationally with free delivery for an annual fee, CNBC reported on Monday (Aug. The pilot program indicated that 20 percent of users were millennials and that CarePass members spent 15-20 percent more at CVS.

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Kohl’s Redoubles Omnichannel Efforts Amid Rise In Digital Sales

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Rewards and Millennials. And, to help reach millennials, the company has rolled out a “millennial initiative” to bring consumers in this demographic to its stores. With that aim in mind, the company plans to experiment with an “outfit bar concept” in 50 brick-and-mortar locations in Philadelphia and Chicago.

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Looking Toward Unattended Retail’s ‘Bright Future’ At The Kiosk

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Millennials prefer to use cards for smaller transactions, namely those under $5. He noted that Philadelphia and San Francisco have banned cashless stores. The convenience factor, he said, looms large in data tied to a Visa survey that found in the U.S.,

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Upscale UK Retailers Look To Land In US Market

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Florida, Chicago and Philadelphia are set. There was also a rise in activism, largely driven by millennials and Gen Z who are demanding their voices be heard. George Weston, the chief executive of Primark owner Associated British Foods (ABF), said four of those new stores will be in the U.S. with several more in site negotiation.

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Meeting The Average Target Shopper

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Just because it plays in Peoria doesn’t necessarily mean the people of Philadelphia will be all that excited. It was, and is, a good stand-in for the Midwest perhaps but is not overly helpful in determining what would play in the more diverse environments in the coastal cities, like New York, L.A. and San Francisco.

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Why Digital Lenders Are Tightening Their Lending Criteria

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Some of the trouble, Bill Kassul — a principal at Ranger Capital Group in Dallas — told Bloomberg in an interview, is that the marketplace consumer lenders are all essentially trawling in the same waters, looking for millennial borrowers who are comfortable with borrowing online and have been traditionally underserved.

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Why Wyndham Is Getting Into Grocery With Peapod And Instacart

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Philadelphia, Penn.; 84 percent of millennials noted hat the ability to easily prepare a meal in heir room would make them feel at home while traveling; data from Nielsen also indicates that Americans prefer eating home-cooking at least 4 nights a week. The pilot is currently underway in locations in and around Chicago, Ill.;

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