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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. An AI-Powered Visual Shopping Experience For Millennials, Gen Z.

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Mobile Ordering, The New Window To Winning Over Millennial Consumers

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It seems that most every industry these days is vying for millennial dollars and devotion. For an industry where millennials are projected to spend nearly $800 billion in 2017 (that’s 7 percent more on monthly food budgets than average Americans), restaurants are hankering to pull out all the stops to get millennials to order — in or out.

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Physical Retail Isn’t Dead – The Physical Store Model Is

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It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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The Year In Data: Measuring 2020’s Payments Innovation

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percent made voice-assisted purchases while shopping for groceries or retail goods in the last 24 hours. 35 percent of retail businesses have experienced an increase in demand. percent of millennials believe it is “very” important to receive payments in real time. percent made purchases via mobile in the last 24 hours.

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India’s Millennials Dial Up Mobile Shopping

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With mobile apps, retailers have the opportunity to wield greater control over the user experience and initiate direct communication with shoppers via push notifications. The online retail market in that country could grow nearly 30 percent to be worth as much as $63 billion by 2020, according to the research.

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Millennials Reluctant To Give Personal Data, Businesses Depend On It

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Between the Instagram selfies, Twitter hashtags and Facebook posts, millennials seem to overshare. The more information that’s asked of them, the less likely it is that [millennials] will finish the application,” said Johnny Ayers, cofounder of Socure. “The It’s All About The Use Case . And they need customer data — at least some.

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In Retail, Are Rewards Their Own Reward?

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Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. There are so many levers to engage consumers” in rewards, said Wind, and whether it is tied specifically to a card or merchant, additional leverage can come through email marketing campaigns or percentage-off programs at retailers. credit cards, 1.3

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