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Use the Accenture's Outlook Report & Consumer Insights Marketer's Handbook (under Discussion Board Articles link) as the basis for your discussion comparing and contrasting findings of this report with 2 articles by Forbes and the Washingtonian (see below links) on the Millennials as retail shoppers. Also, your commentary should report on the main takeaways from these readings as they relate to the shopping behavior of the Millennials.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/05/13/washingtons-10-best-malls-millennials/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardkestenbaum/2017/06/14/this-is-how-millennials-shop/#401c21b3244c

Students will be graded based on how they integrate concepts based on lecture materials in understanding the nature of the millennial consumer described in these readings. Also, students are encouraged to research other sources for additional materials related to the millennial as shoppers (list all referenced sources).

IMPORTANT NOTE: YOU MUST START A FRESH NEW THREAD UNDER YOUR NAME TO Answer the below question and related commentary on the above readings:

Discussion: What are the most important takeaways and insights as they relate to how your client can best address the changing desired experiences and journeys of millennial shoppers?

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Inside the MILLENNIAL MIND The Marketer’s Handbook Use these buttons to share content from this eBook li TABLE OF CONTENTS page The Rapid Rise of Millennials 3 Traditional Behavior and Consumption are Gone 4 How Brands Miss the Mark 5 Making the Millennial Connection 6 Brands Getting it Right 7 Ways to win with Millennials 8 Seizing the Opportunities 9 10 Next Steps select page: Use these buttons to share content from this eBook li THE RAPID RISE OF MILLENNIALS POPULATION SIZE POWER IN NUMBERS Purchasing power $1.68 TRILLION 61.7 m 54 m 75.6 m 39.9 m Gen We Millennials Gen Xers Boomers Matures 0-15 16-34 35-47 48-66 67+ Average household income $60,000 76.6 MILLION THEY ARE CURRENTLY THE LARGEST GENERATION — SURPASSING EVEN BABY BOOMERS Market Size: Source:(2013) Millennials: General Market, CEB Iconoculture Consumer Insights Fast Facts(2013) US Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey, October 2013 release, via DaraFerrett select page: li TRADITIONAL BEHAVIOR AND CONSUMPTION PATTERNS ARE GONE Millennials are focused on amassing life experiences rather than tangible objects, forgoing large financial commitments in order to pay down debt and increase their savings. This shift in spending priorities will define their generation for decades to come. 6% Average use of monthly income Donated 8% Invested 24% Saved 64% A NEW OUTLOOK Spent Traditional milestones of adulthood are crumbling because of changing values and curbed economic opportunities. The result is a generation living very differently than their parents were at similar ages. Brands that insist on tying their marketing strategies to traditional values and outdated rites of passage are missing the mark, and potentially inadvertently alienating masses of convention-defying Millennials. Values stronger for Millennials HAPPINESS PASSION DIVERSITY SHARING Values stronger for older generations Collective-focused values that resonate strongly with Boomers such as duty, integrity and family are not valued as highly by Millennials. On the flip side, inward-looking and experience-oriented values matter most to this generation. Millennials DISCOVERY Baby Boomers JUSTICE INTEGRITY FAMILY PRACTICALITY DUTY Source: (2012) PewSocialTrends.org – Average use of income Survey – December select page: li HOW BRANDS MISS THE MARK 76% DISCOUNTING THEIR HARSH REALITY Millennials took it on the chin during the Great Recession, and continue to fare worse in its wake than any other generation. Most have never experienced any sustained positive economic environment in their post-college lives. As a result, 76% of Millennials worry about a lack of work (Gallup 2013 poll). WAITING FOR THEM TO “GROW UP” Brands waiting for Millennials to fall into a more traditional life stage progression and those who view their current purchasing patterns as a temporary blip are missing the point. Campaigns featuring formerly ubiquitous young adult experiences like closing on a home or walking down the aisle don’t resonate with this segment. Millennials do things on their own schedules and on their own terms. FOCUSING ON STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE As a heavily marketed-to cohort, Millennials are media-savvy skeptics adept at filtering out marketing hype and set a high bar for quality. Hype hits home when it comes from the consumers, not from the brand. select page: li MAKING THE MILLENNIAL CONNECTION SPEAK AUTHENTICALLY TO CORE VALUES Marketing campaigns that target broad lifestyle goals of happiness and success are best positioned to click with the Millennial crowd. And brands that cleverly acknowledge shifting social norms around life stages — or better yet dare to celebrate them — can forge an even more solid connection. AMPLIFY THEIR VOICE, SPOTLIGHT THEIR EXPERIENCE Make Millennials’ outspoken sensibility work for your brand by crafting participatory campaigns that foreground their actual experiences over dreary product details. HELP KEEP THEM “IN THE KNOW” Millennials love feeling like informed insiders, so facilitate discovery beyond the confines of your product or service. Brands providing additional content or services that aid Millennials in their cool-credibility quests can make a memorable marketing impact. ENGAGE THROUGH: PARTICIPATION COLLABORATION select page: & CO-CREATION EXPECT SHARING. ENABLE IT. DON’T REQUIRE IT. li BRANDS GETTING IT RIGHT MADEWELL Madewell rewards its social media followers with regular deals, discounts, promo codes and exclusive sales. It’s a best practice because it does so much more than other fashion brands — tweeting interesting third party information and sharing behind the scenes snaps on Instagram. Madewell understands that a compelling mix of content and commerce is required to keep Millennials engaged. TIDE Tide may not sound like a trendy brand, but they know what they’re doing when it comes to targeting Millennials. Their dead-simple Pods have taken off with the legions of flexibility-prizing laundry-schlepping Millennials, and their gender-smart messaging deftly syncs up with the generation’s egalitarian values. UBER Uber is not a limo or executive car service, but it approximates the experience for just a little more money than a cab, plus a heavy dose of sanity savings in the form of simple mobile payment, pricing and scheduling. A positively disruptive service, Uber scores big with Millennials by providing a simultaneously hip and practical solution to an everyday problem. select page: li WAYS TO WIN WITH MILLENNIALS Millennials want brands that: HELP THEM DO SOMETHING. POSITIVELY DISRUPT THE STATUS QUO. READILY FOLD INTO THEIR LIFESTYLE. ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION. ENGAGE INSTEAD OF ADVERTISE. FEEL AUTHENTIC IN THEIR BRAND IDENTITY. When brands market with key values in mind to address real consumer needs, they’ll find it easier to truly satisfy the demanding Millennial consumer and transform them into powerful advocates. select page: li SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITIES Now that you have a better understanding of the distinctive Millennial mind, keeping abreast of their changing behavior and shifting consumption patterns is even more critical. Whether you are a brand or an agency, let CEB provide you with the tools to stay on top of an evolving landscape. FOCUS YOUR MARKETING AND SALES EFFORTS Gauge the market and validate strategy using our industry trends, consumer research and best practice case studies. EQUIP YOUR TEAM Increase the return on your marketing investment by optimizing your team’s structure and budget using team assessment services. Prioritize highest-impact activities using our project-focused scorecards, workshops and frameworks. ACCELERATE GROWTH Reduce time to market and increase impact of marketing initiatives through our advisory services, workshops, and tools. select page: li LEARN MORE FOLLOW US CONNECT CONTACT Related Services CEB Iconoculture Consumer Insights CEB Market Insights Leadership Council select page: CEB Marketing Leadership Council This article originally appeared in the 2013, No. 2, issue of The journal of high-performance business Industry Report | Retail Who are the Millennial shoppers? And what do they really want? By Christopher Donnelly and Renato Scaff The digital prowess and market savvy of Millennials make them a difficult group for retailers to bracket—do they break all the rules, or are they more like other consumers? New research puts to rest a number of Millennial myths and provides insights marketers can use to engage and serve tomorrow’s trillion-dollar demographic. accenture.com/outlook Millennials—born between 1980 and 2000—are both the 20th century’s last generation and its first truly digital one. This old century/new technology dichotomy gives pause to marketers attempting to understand and connect with this key demographic. But are Millennials really a unique new breed of plugged-in, networked savants? Or do these prized consumers share critical similarities with previous generations? To find out, Accenture conducted proprietary global market research on the shopping behaviors of 6,000 consumers, of which 1,707 were Millennials, across eight countries (see sidebar, page 5). We also looked at the capabilities of 60 retailers worldwide to determine whether they were providing the customer experience this generation demands. To give some idea of the stakes involved: There are roughly 80 million Millennials in the United States alone, and each year they spend approximately $600 billion. While originally typecast as financially dependent teens, today’s Millennials include young adults in their 20s and 30s. Many have careers, are raising kids and live in their own homes. While Millennials are already a potent force, they will truly come into their own by 2020, when we project their spending in the United States will grow to $1.4 trillion annually and represent 30 percent of total retail sales. Millennials will have a major economic impact in other markets our research covered as well. Although Millennials have earned a reputation for viewing the world through a uniquely digital lens, our results found some remarkable similarities between them and their predecessors: the Baby Boomers (born from 1946 to 1964) and Generation X (1965 to 1979). ™ More than half (55 percent) of the survey respondents, in all three demographics, said that they seek out “the cheapest return option.” ™ Forty-one percent of all three groups said they practice “showrooming”— examining merchandise at a nearby retail store and then shopping for it online to find the lowest price— more often than they did a year ago. This shift is due, in part, to the current high penetration levels of smartphones, which can enable customers to search for an item easily, even while in a store. ™ Thirty-six percent of those surveyed from all three generations said they will go online to buy from a retailer’s website if they want a product when the company’s stores are closed. ™ On average, 89 percent said having access to real-time product availability information would influence their shopping choices in terms of which stores they would frequent. The many similarities we found across generations led us to challenge three enduring myths about Millennials. Myth #1: It’s all about online shopping 2 Outlook 2013 Number 2 Millennials are certainly very savvy online customers, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped frequenting brick-and-mortar venues. In fact, interviews conducted recently at one of America’s largest shopping malls confirmed our survey findings that many members of the digital generation actually prefer visiting stores to shopping online. What’s more, our research findings in the United States were reflected in the other countries where we surveyed as well. Echoing countless generations of canny shoppers, one Millennial told us, “You want to touch it; you want to smell it; you want to pick it up.” Make no mistake: Online and mobile channels are important to Millennials, providing the information and insights they need to find the best products and services. Many hone their shopping skills on the Internet, checking product ratings and reviews or feedback on retailers, for example, to confirm that both product and vendor provide the best value and service, respectively. One challenge for retailers is the Millennials’ seemingly omniscient grasp of prices and promotions, which this generation expects to be the same in stores as they are online. To cash in on in-store retailer promotions, Millennials also want mobile coupon scanning capabilities, and having to print out coupons prior to shopping could be a deal-breaker. One summed it up this way: “When I get to the store, if I haven’t printed out my coupon and I can’t use it, I walk out.” When it comes to shopping, we found that 68 percent of all Millennials demand an integrated, seamless experience regardless of the channel. That means being able to transition effortlessly from smartphone to personal computer to physical store in their quest for the best products and services. Myth #2: Loyalty is lost In a recent survey of retail industry leaders, nearly 40 percent said the No. 1 concern they have about Millennials is their lack of loyalty. But we found that Millennials can be exceptionally loyal customers— provided they feel they’ve been treated right. They demand a customer-centric shopping experience—one tailored to their wants and needs as valued customers. As one shopper put it, “You want to feel welcome when you go to the stores.” In describing the ideal shopping experience, a Millennial noted, “There is [something] about the product and its cost, but there’s also a big part about being treated like a valued customer.” Many seek personalized, targeted promotions and discounts as the price for their loyalty. “Loyalty programs are big,” confirmed one interviewee. We found that 95 percent or more of Millennials say they want their brands to court them actively, and coupons sent via email or mailed to their homes currently (or will in the future) have the most influence on them. Other channels, such as text messages, have an influence on just over half of all respondents in terms of their shopping behaviors. Myth #3: Millennials treat retailers and brands the same as people on social networks 3 Outlook 2013 Number 2 Although Millennials are masters of social media, they view Facebook and other sites differently than many marketers may assume, which can lead to misunderstandings. While clicking an icon on a social network page might indicate that they consider a retailer or brand cool or hip, (Continued on page 5) Myth busting Millennials still like brick-and-mortar stores. In fact, 82 percent of them prefer bricks and mortar. 91% 68% 80% prefer shopping in drugstores prefer shopping in consumer electronics stores prefer shopping in apparel stores 84% 83% prefer shopping in department stores prefer shopping in discount/ mass merchant stores Millennials can be exceptionally loyal customers: 69% say that when it comes to their favorite retail store, a “closed” sign does not change their minds. 28% 37% 4% will return to the store the next morning will buy the item from the retailer online will buy the item via the retailer’s mobile app It takes more than Millennials liking a brand or a retailer on social media to make them loyal customers. 28% will make a purchase due to a social media recommendation 4 Outlook 2013 Number 2 Source: Accenture analysis About the research To bring the needs of Millennial consumers and their potential impact on retailing into sharper focus, Accenture undertook a three-pronged research initiative that included a major, multicountry online consumer survey, a global retailer benchmarking study and face-to-face interviews with 50 individual consumers. ™ Developing integrated merchandising skills, which requires retailers to provide an integrated product assortment and unified pricing across channels. ™ Putting in place flexible fulfillment and returns procedures that offer customers multiple convenient options. Consumer survey. We conducted an online survey of 6,000 consumers, of which 1,707 were Millennials, across the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, Japan, China and Brazil. Retailer survey. The second element of the research was a benchmarking survey involving 60 global retailers that focused on six capabilities and asked 80 questions. The six capabilities are: ™ Providing a consistent customer experience regardless of channel. ™ Offering connected shopping that allows customers to move seamlessly across channels to fulfill a single shopping mission. ™ Enabling personalized interactions through which retailers effectively engage customers to offer the dynamic, accessible and continuous shopping journeys, whether in-store, online or via a mobile device, consumers desire. ™ Providing better, faster and more memorable customer experiences. Accenture matched the consumer and retailer benchmarking surveys on a one-to-one basis to evaluate what is important to customers compared to what retailers are actually delivering. Face-to-face interviews. To bring the survey findings to life, we interviewed about 50 randomly selected consumers at the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois. (Continued from page 4) that doesn’t necessarily mean they are loyal customers. “I really don’t follow my retailers on Facebook or Twitter,” said one. Instead, they view social media relationships with brands and retailers as transactional. “Social media? I use it to get deals,” offered another. 5 Outlook 2013 Number 2 a routine part of their conversations concerning product information, updates and special offers. “It’s not like you’re communicating a deal to [your friends],” one person explained. “It’s more like, ‘Hey, I got this new thing, this new toy.’ ” Marketers, who are relentless scorekeepers, can easily mistake a pressed “like” button for far more than it really is—which, from the Millennials’ perspective, is basically a way to find the best offers. “I do ‘like’ certain retailers on social media,” one Millennial noted, “especially if it gives me access to coupons or deals or more information. [Otherwise], I would have to be pretty emotionally moved to just ‘like’ [a retailer] for no reason.” The goal should be to create positive buzz, to be talked about by Millennials. Simply having a presence on social media isn’t enough—the aspiration should be to become the topic of conversation for all the right reasons. Contrary to the famous public relations maxim that all publicity is good publicity, many firms have found, to their regret, that the negative online buzz they are generating can zap both brand strength and sales. Instead, companies need to engender the type of positive online buzz that can lift brands and sales alike. To reach Millennials on social media, a brand or product must become Our research also highlighted the quicksilver nature of social media. For further reading “Shoppers without borders,” Outlook 2012, No. 3: http://www.accenture.com/ us-en/outlook/Pages/outlook-journal2012-shoppers-without-borders-retail.aspx “Serving the nonstop customer,” Outlook 2012, No. 3: http://www.accenture.com/ us-en/outlook/Pages/outlook-journal2012-serving-the-nonstop-customermarketing.aspx “Harnessing the power of social media,” Outlook 2011, No. 1: http://www.accenture. com/us-en/outlook/Pages/outlook-journal2011-harnessing-power-social-media.aspx For more related content, please visit www.accenture.com. Although Facebook remains by far the largest social network in the world, Millennials—perhaps as a bellwether for the actions of other generations—have begun to move on. “[Facebook has] kind of died down,” shrugged one. Others listed their Facebook alternatives: Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Pinterest and more. For retailers, this proliferation means that where the conversation takes place is constantly evolving. Next year, it could be an entirely new site; in five years, the social media channel itself could morph into a completely different form. Driven by the Millennials and future digital generations as yet unnamed, we believe retailing will change more in the next five years than it has in the last 50. That’s because consumer uptake of new communication technologies has continued to compress over the past 125 years. Look at radio: It took more than 30 years to achieve a consumer adoption rate of 50 percent. Mobile phones took only 15 years to reach the same level, and social media, a mere 3.5 years. The message for retailers is simple: While you had literally decades to perfect your radio-era go-to-market strategy, with social media you will be lucky to get a year, and in the future, a year might be a best-case scenario. Unfortunately, our research shows that retailers are currently under-delivering when it comes to the demands of Millennials. When Accenture evaluated more than 60 global retailers to understand how seamlessly they deliver the customer experience, we found that most of them had big holes in their approaches. 6 Outlook 2013 Number 2 We have identified six dimensions as contributing to a seamless retail experience. Today, most retailers are making headway on only two: providing a consistent cross-channel experience and offering personalized interactions. The other four—connected shopping, integrated merchandising, flexible fulfillment options, and the capabilities and enriched services that help make the overall shopping experience better, faster and more memorable— remain works in progress. Becoming seamless We define seamlessness as the ability to deliver a consistently personalized, on-brand experience for each individual customer, at every touchpoint—anytime and anywhere. A seamless customerfacing retail experience will typically include the following four components (see chart, page 4). ™ To reflect customer demand, retailers need to customize their offerings across channels in the ways Millennials want, which typically boils down to providing better, faster, more memorable service. ™ Retailers also need to integrate their operational elements so that they can have a single “conversation” with customers, not one that changes from smartphone to PC to physical store. ™ IT platforms should be integrated to unify their sources of data and boost cross-channel transparency. ™ Finally, retailers will need to team up with technology, data, analytics and process partners to provide the service performance Millennials want, since they will not be able to deliver it all themselves. As a result, successful players are collaborating to strengthen their customer value propositions. For instance, a third-party logistics provider can supply same-day delivery services for online purchases, enabling retailers to offer a service customers want without having to invest in an expanded delivery fleet or new routing capabilities. To improve their capabilities as a seamless organization, we suggest that retailers consider the following five steps. ™ First, integrate the company’s merchandising and marketing departments with a unified position, making the customer experience just as important as product and price considerations within the company. ™ Second, retailers should consider ways to consolidate single channel teams in order to serve customers on an end-to-end basis across the enterprise. ™ Third, retailers can organize their store employees on two specialized tracks, one tasked to serve customers and the other focused on fulfillment, since the two disciplines differ dramatically from each other. ™ Fourth, companies should explore Outlook is published by Accenture. The views and opinions in this article should not be viewed as professional advice with respect to your business. The use herein of trademarks that may be owned by others is not an assertion of ownership of such trademarks by Accenture nor intended to imply an association between Accenture and the lawful owners of such trademarks. For more information about Accenture, please visit www.accenture.com Copyright © 2013 Accenture All rights reserved. Accenture, its logo and High Performance Delivered are trademarks of Accenture. ways to evolve their supply chains to gain the capability of managing their inventory holistically. That means “forward” to the stores, “backward” for returns and “sideways,” which involves sourcing from other stores. ™ Finally, many retailers should think about how to expand the metrics they use to keep track of the company’s customer handling performance, as well as the incentives that drive it. Normally, retailers look at samestore performance, but that dynamic changes when companies use stores to fulfill orders initiated online. Questions arise, including which channel should receive credit for the sale? Who covers the cost of fulfillment? And how do you encourage stores to support these shifts when each is responsible for its own profitability? Our research shows that Millennials are not only transforming their own shopping behaviors but those of their parents, who are increasingly mimicking the demands of their children for seamlessness as they climb the digital learning curve. One consequence of this evolution is that the retail environment will probably change faster than many companies expect in the coming years, and many retailers will find themselves falling further and further behind. That’s because delivering products and services in a truly seamless fashion will require companies to make profound changes across their entire organizations—changes that many seem either unprepared or unwilling to make. To close this emerging consumer generation gap, retail leaders need to take action now to provide the seamless end-to-end experience Millennials demand. About the authors Christopher Donnelly is the industry managing director of Accenture Retail. He is based in Chicago. christopher.donnelly@accenture.com Renato Scaff is an Atlanta-based managing director in Accenture Retail. renato.scaff@accenture.com Student 1: Millennial Shopping Behavior and Client Application Shopping Behavior of Millennials Millennials are now the largest consumer generation in the United States, containing 76.6 million persons, who have an average income of $60k (Corporate Executive Board, n.d.). Marketers have often touted this generation as consumers connected to their digital devices and, therefore, heavily influenced by digital marketing. However, research from the Corporate Executive Board (n.d.) has found “millennials are media savvy skeptics adept at filtering out marketing hype and set a high bar for quality.” Presumably this is because they are constantly bombarded with advertisements, they have become skilled at only being influenced at advertisements that peak their interest. To that end, millennials are more apt to trust products from word of mouth referrals rather than a brand touting a products features. Nevertheless, companies spend lots of advertising dollars trying to reach this large consumer group. Brands that target happiness, success, and connect the consumer’s experience with a product often find their marketing efforts are most successful with millennials (Corporate Executive Board, n.d.). But, how does a company persuade a millennial to try its product(s)? By offering a discount of course! Millennials are perhaps very influenced by a product’s price. This is a large item companies must consider, where as 80% of millennials are influenced by price (Freed, 2016). Further, “twothirds of millennials say they will switch brands if they are offered a discount of 30% or more” (Freed, 2016). If a company wishes to connect with the millennial consumer, they must constantly be engaging with the consumer and also very aware of how their product is priced relative to other products on the market. Accenture conducted a survey of the shopping behaviors of 6,000 consumers which provides some insight into how millennials wish to learn about and be influenced regarding a product’s pricing. About two-thirds of the respondents were millennials. The survey found that 95% or more of Millennials want their brands of choice to court them constantly, sending them coupons in the mail or email (Donnelly & Scaff, 2013). Contrary to popular belief, millennials actually do a lot of their shopping in store versus online (Freed, 2016). However, there is a big discrepancy within the millennial age group as to their shopping preference. Older millennials are more likely to purchase items online. However, younger millennials are more geared towards purchasing items in person (Kestenbaum, 2017). Millennials, like previous generations, want the opportunity to touch, smell, and pick up a product before purchase (Donnelly & Scaff, 2013). Yet, it should be noted that millennials will typically spend less time in a physical store than shoppers of previous generations (Freed, 2016). Yet, regardless of the time spend in store or at home researching a product, millennials expect a streamlined experience. It would be helpful for companies to heavily invest in Customer Relationship Management systems to ensure offerings are maximized across all marketing channels and the company can keep track of a specific customer’s praise and/or concerns (Donnelly & Scaff, 2013). Insights for the Client Project This week’s articles provide additional insight to the millennial consumer. Notably, this consumer group is very sensitive to price. Therefore, our client should be cognizant of the specific price point they will place on Mr. Batter. Further, they can also influence millennial consumers through price promotions, such as coupons. But, this group also has the unique desire to obtain a unique ‘value’ for their dollar. In addition to cost, ingredients are a top concern for this consumer group according to Innova Market Research’s survey of younger millennials (Atchley, Roesler, & Wiber, 2018). This is increasingly true when it comes to bakery products, which are often eaten at breakfast, similar to our client’s pancake product. Further, millennials allocate the highest share of their grocery store budget to prepared foods, sugar and sweets, and pasta (Cernansky, 2018). Notably, the first three food categories listed require minimal preparation. Both of these behaviors are good news for our client, whereas their product, Mr. Batter, is on the sweet side and requires minimal preparation. Lastly, Mr. Batter can also highlight ease of use to this consumer population. In addition to preparation time being less, Mr. Batter also requires less clean up time. Millennials spend the least amount of time per week on food presentation and clean up than previous generations (Cernansky, 2018). Again, this is a positive highlight of the customer experience as a result of Mr. Batter’s unique formulation. Mr. Batter should be able to connect millennial consumers by emphasizing the product experience. Comment: Student 2: Understanding Millennials Out of all the generations, millennials have the largest population size, are focused more on experiences than physical objects, and have a high standards of quality. Values are different for millennials as compared to previous generation, so traditional marketing tactics will not be effective. To make the connection with millennials, companies must engage through encouraging participation, collaboration, and co-creation. Similar to the example of Uber, DreamPack should market itself as a hip and practical solution to an everyday problem, which is in this case, lack of time. The main differentiator for millennials is that 68 percent of them want an integrated and seamless experience, which must be a priority for DreamPak. As long as millennials have been treated right, they will be loyal consumers. This involves having a customer-centric shopping experience that is catered to what they want. It will be necessary for not only having a strong presence on social media but also becoming millennial's topic of conversation in a positive way. Millennials make purchasing decisions in a social collaborative way, which are often reflected online. To gain millennial approval, a company must be present in multiple channels and constantly deliver seamless experiences (Bhatia). Another option is to offer products with a low price, as 80% of millennials would purchase products based on the cheapest option. Additionally, according to the Accenture article, 89% of survey respondents said having real-time access to product information influences what they buy in terms of going to stores, but this also would impact what products they purchase. I agree with the Washington Post article in that some millennials enjoy making a purchase in person as compared to online, but I think this really depends on the genre of products. For food, in particular, many enjoy purchasing in person so they can physically see that what they are paying for isn't spoiled. The same goes for millennials making a quick purchase without much thought, especially when it comes to shopping for clothes from a store that consumers trust. When a brand is not known to a millennial, they won't make a purchase without researching a brand online. DreamPak must consider that they have to have an online presence so that consumers feel that they can trust the brand before purchase. Comment:
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