Baby boomers make up a sizeable chunk of the retailers' shoppers and investors aren't convinced that Gen Z and Millennials will age into shopping at the stores.
Gen Z's buying power has reached a staggering $360 billion, and they spend over seven hours a day looking at screens. With its influence on the consumer landscape only intensifying, Gen Z is a critical audience for any brand seeking long-term customer loyalty.
Couples are holding smaller events, choosing alternative venues, or just running away togetherThe cost of living crisis. Mass layoffs. Inflation. To quote a meme: “You want to have a wedding?! In this economy?!”Actually, yes. Despite a challenging economic landscape and the average cost of a US wedding being $30,000 to $50,000, gen Z is still saying “we do”. (The average cost was $27,000 in 2006.) Continue reading
"I have a lot of faith that this population is going to do well."
Resolutely European young people brave violent repression to loudly reject ‘foreign agents’ law and alignment with MoscowMariska Iurevicz’s mother has been crying a lot recently. “She is always asking when I’ll be home”, the 22-year-old says. “I think we are feeling the same. We are nervous and some of us feeling unsafe. But we are very strong. We will do everything to change the situation.”Iurevicz, a philosophy student at the TSU State University in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, belongs to...
Zendaya's erotic film Challengers ignites a crazy Gen Z trend - Zendaya's hot new tennis movie has created a buzz around the sport as Gen-Z is racing to buy sports apparel and equipment to spend the summer on the court.The new film, Challengers, stars the 27-year-old Euphoria star as Tashi, a former professional tennis player turned coach who is helping her husband return to the sport. Achieving an impressive 88% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and a pretty high 76% from fans,...
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While credit card balances edged down in the first quarter, more borrowers still fell behind on their card payments, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found.
OpenAI’s updated chatbot GPT-4o is weirdly flirtatious, coquettish and sounds like Scarlett Johansson in Her. Why?“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Arthur C Clarke famously said. And this could certainly be said of the impressive OpenAI update to ChatGPT, called GPT-4o, which was released on Monday. With the slight caveat that it felt a lot like the magician was a horny 12-year-old boy who had just watched the Spike Jonze movie Her.If you aren’t up to speed...
The Office of National Statistics is revamping how to gets data on Gen Z participants, including higher cash prizes and face-to-face interviews.
Rapper Childish Gambino is bringing his new world tour to New Orleans in September.