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

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In the August edition of the Payments And The Platform Economy Playbook , PYMNTS examines how marketplaces are using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile payments to innovate the customer experience. An AI-Powered Visual Shopping Experience For Millennials, Gen Z. Around the Payments And The Platform E conomy.

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The Buyers: Millennials Love-Hate Chain Restaurants

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According to contradicting views, millennials are both hooked on chain restaurants while simultaneously killing their existence. Technology has lent itself to increasing the amount of mobile delivery orders, but there are additional contributing factors pulling from both sides of the restaurant spectrum. billion by 2020.

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Baby Boomers Vs. Millennials: Eerily Similar?

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While most millennials were brought up in the age of the computer, baby boomers can remember a time when they weren’t surrounded by technology. It’s a peculiar dichotomy to compare millennials to their parents’ generation, the baby boomers. million of the borrowers, up from 700,000 a decade earlier.

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How Mobile Technology Is Changing Insurance Claims

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“I think one of the largest reasons [insurers are still using checks] is because claim payments, the paying out of a claim, is [a] loss of money, and it is really hard for companies to focus or invest resources in a place in which you are losing money already,” Michele Schmitt, senior product manager for B2B insurance technology firm Tr?v

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How Payment Platforms Connect Merchants With Augmented Reality

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To let shoppers discover and try out new products, payment companies are helping merchants launch augmented reality (AR) experiences within social media platforms. The firm chose a Kenyan brand, Huddah Cosmetics , as the first social commerce merchant on its Mula service to roll out the platform.

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Toyota Plans To Turn Millennials Into Car Owners

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That bet could complicate, in a positive way, some of the general ideas out there about the preferences of millennial consumers. The integration of such tools is designed with those millennials in mind, part of the company’s effort to gain more revenue from a new generation of drivers. Not So Much About Tech As Marketing.

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5 Ways Credit Unions Should Engage with Millennial Members on Social Media

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Perhaps the most important and impactful way credit unions can attract and retain millennial members is through social engagement. billion daily active users, these social platforms have the potential to be an outstanding marketing tool for a credit union. Social media wasn’t developed to be a silent one-way street.