consumer insights

How Porch Pirates Subtly Steer E-commerce
How Porch Pirates Subtly Steer E-commerce
June 22, 2017  |  eCommerce

While we tend to associate high-tech fraud with eCommerce thieves, as it turns out, it’s a big ecosystem with room enough for good old-fashioned, smash-and-grab...

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Consumer Confidence Is Up — Way Up — This Father’s Day
Consumer Confidence Is Up — Way Up — This Father’s Day
June 06, 2017  |  Retail

Dads are getting some extra love this Father’s Day, according to a study by the National Retail Federation (NRF). Total spending for the holiday is expected...

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Nokia On Wisely Analyzing The Cognition Of The Crowd
Nokia On Wisely Analyzing The Cognition Of The Crowd
June 02, 2017  |  Consumer Insights

Crowds draw crowds, and for retailers, drawing a crowd means drawing dollars. In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Shelley Schlueter, who heads Nokia’s analytics...

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Debit, ATMs And The New Age Of Bank Branches
Debit, ATMs And The New Age Of Bank Branches
May 31, 2017  |  Banking

Deck:  Banks are evolving – and just into what can be anyone’s guess, amid FinTech and the demands of younger consumers (we’re looking at you,...

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Millennials Want Financial Freedom; Boomers Want To Quit
Millennials Want Financial Freedom; Boomers Want To Quit
May 22, 2017  |  Boomers vs. Millennials

Millennials are saving to have financial freedom at a faster rate than Gen Xers and baby boomers, who are more focused on saving to exit...

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Why Millennials Love Subscriptions
Why Millennials Love Subscriptions
May 11, 2017  |  Vantiv

When it comes to buying subscriptions, there is something of a generation gap emerging — at least when it comes to products, according to the latest...

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What Post-Millennials Like
What Post-Millennials Like
April 27, 2017  |  Retail

Just as marketers started to get the hang of this newfangled “millennial” crowd, the next generation comes along to shake things up with different values,...

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Gen Z Goes Phys-igtal
Gen Z Goes Phys-igtal
April 25, 2017  |  Data Drivers

Think the youngest generation lives to live online? Think again. Generation Z swells with in store shoppers – to the point where 98 percent of...

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ThredUP And The Resale Retail Revolution
ThredUP And The Resale Retail Revolution
April 14, 2017  |  Retail

Resale retail is a rapidly exploding business — particularly if one happens to be in the business of reselling clothes. According to thredUP’s most recent resale...

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