Re: Prices and Millennials

kaydee50 · ‎02-07-2011

@sidsmom wrote:
@SilleeMee wrote:
Millennial spending is not the future but rather it is here and now. Their population outnumbers boomers. Most of the millennials I know don't buy stuff from a TV shopping channel. They buy stuff online. For that reason I think TV shopping channels are not going to be around for very much longer...who's going to buy that stuff when the boomers are gone?
I’m kinda stunned TV shopping lasted this long.
QVC is such a cultural punchline, I can’t imagine
anyone of youth would commit the time to watch
something when online is the future.

@sidsmom Agree with your statement. I think it's lasted as long as it has because, IMO, some people are addicted QVC and buy items without giving much thought to cost or quality. I'm a baby boomer and long ago lost my enthusiasm for the Q and over time have bought less and less from them. Too many other alternatives.

bonnielu · ‎03-11-2010

I am a person. Period. I buy for value. I buy because I need something. I buy if I truly want something.. a bit of self serving thrills once in awhile. QVC has raised prices not only on regular presentations but on Clearance and AS IS.

I buy online and I am a senior citizen if I may say that. I buy by catalog and I am a senior citizen. I buy on sale and on clearance. I follow the fashion trends and I want to look nice. My Walmart or Costco choices are of good quality, great style and they are ME. Strangers compliment me when I walk into a room, any room including a dance floor.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

Most college age kids and kids just entering the work force dress as casually as they can get by with. They often wear NO makeup or a ton of it when they do.

Dess up for women/girls is often a tight fitting stretch dress, maybe a sweater or semi-jacket of some type, scarf perhaps, and some jewelry.

They do not buy expensive clothes as a rule, and don't get dressed up to the degree I had to to work--suit, heels, good jewelry and bag etc.

They don't spend money and time on shopping other than for electronics and spend most of their time on electronics.

Catch71 · ‎03-09-2010

@Carmie

You hit the nail on the head; my millennials have commented to me that they don't understand why I would sit and watch presentations on tv of stuff I don't intend to buy They say "How can you watch a show showing shoes you don't even like". Also they don't get the 5-10 minute presentations on the same thing. They say they would not waste their time, they just go online to sites they like (Amazon, Target for their kids, Old Navy, Wayfair) and buy and have shipped the stuff they really want or need. They have Prime and rarely pay shipping anywhere.

FrostyBabe1 · ‎05-09-2016

The millenials in my family are only aware of TV shopping networks because of an elderly great-great aunt who use to buy all kinds of stuff from QVC. There's absolutely nothing of any interest to them that the shopping networks sell. Heck, I'm 60 and there's very little of their stuff that I'm interested in.

~The more someone needs to brag about how wonderful, special, successful, wealthy or important they are, the greater the likelihood that it isn't true. ~

JJsMom · ‎03-10-2010

@GenXmuse wrote:
@SilleeMee wrote:
Millennial spending is not the future but rather it is here and now. Their population outnumbers boomers. Most of the millennials I know don't buy stuff from a TV shopping channel. They buy stuff online. For that reason I think TV shopping channels are not going to be around for very much longer...who's going to buy that stuff when the boomers are gone?
The answer is no one. Lol
I’m Gen X and I don’t wear their clothes.

I'm Gen X, and I have a handful of things from here, but I notice I never wear them. The majority of clothes here don't appeal to me. I had QVC on once, and my Millennial niece walked by, took one look, and said "ew!" It made me laugh out loud.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. ~ Desmond Tutu

nun ya · ‎03-09-2010

My daughter is 26, I think she at one time bought a Clairsonic here. She would not wear the clothes. I know she shops at Madewell, Ann Taylor, Frye, Nordstrom etc. Its not the price, she doesn't like the styles they offer here.

Jinlei · ‎07-25-2010

I think the term millennials is so stupid. Who thinks up this drivel? Aren’t we all just people? JMO

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

I don't think QVC or any shopping channel is interested in Millenials for the reasons you stated. Many are paying off student loans and car payments. Many are raising very young families and saving to buy their first homes. Millenials just don't have a lot of disposable income. You can tell from the products who shopping channels are reaching out to....it's not 25 year olds.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

I'm not sure if this is true for all millennials, but what I've seen them do is spend their money on a few very expensive items....usually things that they have saved up for like a house or car. That's what I'm seeing around here anyway and some of the them talk about how the things they buy now are just 'stepping stones' which they hope to move on from to bigger and better things. They have big plans so it seems to me.