There are a number of things that Millenials hate - and napkins is high on the list. What do they use? Paper towels. My suggestion for the napkin companies (who are also the paper towel companies) is to package paper towels as napkins with the advantage that "we've got them ready for the dinner table".
In comparison, Millenials don't hate cash. They don't care about it, and use their cards and smart phones instead. The interesting impact of this? It turns out to be charities who have depended on hard currency in the box for donations. How are charities responding to this circumstance? TEXT POPPY TO 20222 or scan this QR code with your phone to donate by credit card.
Text-to-donate has been here for years. The Mobile Giving Foundation Canada (MGFC) is a registered charity that enables text message donations. Its 2012 articles says that it costs $2,000 - $3,000 for a year. There are a quite a few mobile giving software companies in Canada - OneCause, Snowball, Qgiv, Double the Donation, SecureGive, Pledgeling. Each has its advantage for a particular type of charity and cause.
SecureGive is aimed at churches. It advertises itself as "the first and only giving platform created by a pastor for pastors". In the US, there's pushpay. They say that 7,500+ churches are already using pushpay to engage younger audiences.
Snowball's site gives some interesting text giving facts that tell us the move to cashless living:
95% American adults own a cell phone
81% Americans use SMS daily
90% Text messages read within three minutes of receipt
80 Average number of times Americans check their phones daily
40% Nonprofit website traffic from mobile users
80% The amount that mobile fundraising grew from 2013 to 2016
7,000% How much texting has increased in the last decade
A few more pictures from the train show - this first one could be "Exit cash".
