O'Brien: My journey into the heart of Generation Y shopping habits

San Jose Mercury News, October 20, 2009 — I am a proud, flag-waving member of Generation X, the latchkey kids born between the early 1960s and late 1970s who listened to grunge music while worrying that we'd never make as much money as our parents. My children, 4 and 6, are part of the emerging Generation Z, a demographic too young to be stereotyped.