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Deep Dive: Travel, Hospitality Get A Millennial Makeover

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Millennials have long been sought-after travel and hospitality customers, partly because they are perfectly placed to seek such experiences. This unique status creates both opportunities and challenges for firms in the space, as millennials search for the experiences they crave. Furthermore, millennials are set to spend $1.4

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What Hath Bridge Millennials Wrought To Commerce And Payments?

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The new year will bring a new round of one of the hottest games in the payments-and-commerce world: What makes millennials tick? Census, millennials are 25 to 34 years old. The reason for that is because data shows a significant difference in payments and commerce between this segment and the Census view of millennials.

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How Millennials Shop For Furniture With Direct-To-Consumer Brands

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Millennials value experiences over things, as the familiar digital age adage goes, but sometimes millennials do, in fact, need actual things , such as sofas, beds and tables to furnish their apartments and houses. For starters, these retailers are turning to simple web interfaces that present information in a clear way.

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Why Millennials And Gen Z Could Save 2020's Holiday Shopping Season

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The retail ecosystem has been turned upside down over the past six months as changes big and small rippled through the segment worldwide in response to the pandemic. We see millennial and Gen Z customers absolutely shopping, and the brands that deeply understand them are growing at faster rates than they have ever grown before,” Molnar said.

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Debit Beats Credit With Bridge Millennials

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Not willingly – unless you use a credit card at the POS terminal, that is, in which case you’ll pay the retail price plus 21 percent. Older “ bridge millennials ” led the way when it comes to living within one’s means by showing a clear preference for debit products. Would you pay interest on a cup of coffee? Safe, but Not Immune.

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Despite Papyrus’ Closing, Stationery Retail Is Not All Doom-And-Gloom

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New evidence of that — part of the broader trend of the existential changes in the world of brick-and-mortar retail, changes that are gaining more focus this month — comes from reports that stationery chain Papyrus is closing up shop. The chain had since expanded to some 260 or so retail locations. Millennials to the Rescue.

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Trending: Meeting The Millennial Need For AI-Powered Visual Shopping

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Online marketplaces for everything from retail goods to travel services to hospitality need to ensure a quick and easy way for both buyers and sellers to transact with each other— or risk losing both sides to a waiting host of competitors. Fraud remains an ever-present challenge, however, and marketplaces worldwide are deploying new defenses.