Economics

Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail

Jayne O'Donnell; Kit Yarrow

About the Program

Members of "Generation Y" shop 25 to 40 percent more than the average consumer.  Author Kit Yarrow tells us the psychology behind this new consumer and how this generation has already changed marketing, such as downloading music from the internet instead of buying CDs.

About the Authors

Kit Yarrow

Kit Yarrow is  Chair of the Psychology Department at Golden Gate University and an award-winning consumer research scholar.  She's also a business consultant for firms such as, Nokia and General Electric, among others. 


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Jayne O'Donnell

Jayne O'Donnell has been a reporter at USA Today for 15 years and writes the monthly  "Managing Your Money" feature "Shopping Sense."  She's also written for Good Housekeeping, Parents, Cosmo Girl! and had a column for seven years in Woman's Day.


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Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail

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Past Airings

  • Sunday, November 1st at 11pm (ET)
  • Sunday, October 11th at 7pm (ET)
  • Sunday, September 27th at 4pm (ET)
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