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Back-to-School Shopping Season Is Here, Marketers

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By Sue Yasav

Welcome to the second biggest shopping season of the year: It’s Back-to-School season and it’s promising to be a good one. According to a survey conducted by Synchrony Financial of parents of K-12 students, parents of college students, and college students themselves, parents are pretty upbeat about the economy and their own financial situation this year. More than half (53 percent) of parents of K-12 kids expect to spend more this year than last year.

This is good news, and is driving an expected increase of back-to-school spending between 3.7

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Sue Yasav

Sue Yasav is the VP of Thought Leadership at Synchrony Financial. She's responsible for developing strategic insights through surveys, social listening and academic studies on topics related to the financial services and retail industries. She authors white papers on consumer trends and articulates impactful strategies for marketers in the areas of digital transformation, customer experience and insights into specific growth segments of the U. S. population.  Sue has 20 years of experience in the credit card industry, encompassing 10 years at Citi Cards as VP in the Finance and Marketing organizations.  In the past 11 years at Synchrony Financial, Sue has been a Lean/Six Sigma Master Black Belt, a marketing leader for a high-end retail partner in NYC and the leader of Value Proposition Development.

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