Find out which generation spends the most per trip, shops the most often, finds the most deals and learn how to reach them. Understanding diverse generational preferences leads to opportunities at the register.

The conflict between hippies and their parents in the 1960s gave rise to a new term: the generation gap.  Ever since, the phrase has been an easy way to define the differences in attitudes, politics and culture between the young and their elders.  And while the generation gap seen today between aging Baby Boomers and a younger, fast-growing, multi-cultural population may not be as pronounced or dramatic as it was 40 years ago, the ramifications for the U.S. in 2020 are just as big, and perhaps even more so.
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A likely future for the U.S. in the year 2020 and beyond is a country split between the aging Baby Boom still with substantial political, economic, and social power, and a young, fast-growing multi-cultural population with far less political and economic clout.