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DOOH: Clear Channel Outdoor buyout opens new strategic cycle after 5 years of losses
After accumulating US$1.6 billion in net losses between 2020 and 2024, the American Clear Channel Outdoor is set to change scale. The acquisition by a consortium (led by Mubadala Capital and TWG...
13 February 2026
Retail media and AI: Mirakl Ads aims to maximise personalisation and marketplace revenue
At the age of agentic commerce, personalising recommendations becomes a key performance sales lever for marketplaces. At the AI Day organised by France Digitale in Paris, Mirakl detailed the...
12 February 2026
Grain de Malice: how live shopping boosts average basket by 67%
On February 12, Grain de Malice received a public award at the first edition of the E-commerce live summit organised by the Caast agency. On the sidelines of the event, Laurent Bacquaert, Digital...
12 February 2026
Fewer goods, more services and leisure: when demographic shock transforms retail
In 2025, the number of deaths surpassed the number of births in France. At the Retail Data Day on February 5, 2026, and at the BNP Financial Services Cetelem's Observatory barometer on consumption...
12 February 2026
Why and how Leboncoin launched an app in ChatGPT
While OpenAI developed a space for third-party applications within an interface since December 2025, Leboncoin, the second most visited e-commerce site in France, has launched an application in...
10 February 2026
Rufus: In 2025, Amazon’s AI chatbot generated US$12 billion in sales
After very encouraging results in Q3 and on Black Friday 2025, when 38% of Amazon sessions used Rufus, Amazon’s annual report confirms the strong traction of the AI chatbot. In 2025, Rufus...
10 February 2026
Facing TikTok’s crisis in the US, UpScrolled attracts users
In the USA, whileTikTok has been navigating turbulence since a restructuring on January 22, 2026, led by a new entity controlled by Oracle and Silver Lake (bugs, service outages and accusations of...
10 February 2026
U.S. giants Advent and FedEx acquire InPost for €7.8 billion
On February 9, 2026, a consortium led by the American fund Advent and delivery giant FedEx announced the acquisition of the Polish locker specialist InPost. The transaction, valued at €7.8...
10 February 2026
In-store analytics: US company Form acquires Israeli unicorn Trax
On February 5, 2026, Israeli start-up Trax, founded in 2010 by Joel Bar-El and Dror Feldheim, announced a merger with Form to develop shelf analytics through AI. With a cumulative total of 11...
6 February 2026
[Amazon Results] E-commerce fuelled by AI and advertising drives Amazon in 2025, but the cloud bet raises questions
Driven by e-commerce, the marketplace, the cloud, and advertising — four units each generating more than US$12 billion in incremental revenue in 2025 — Amazon ended the year with solid...
6 February 2026
AI Builders study : 18% of French companies have launched agentic projects
Whilst a shift towards agentic commerce has been under way for several months, consulting firm AI Builders has revealed, exclusively to mind Retail, a study on the disintermediation of customer...
6 February 2026
With 276 stores and exclusive agreements with L’Oréal and Nike, Nykaa accelerates an omnichannel shift
Through influence on YouTube and Snapchat, data exploitation, physical retail and partnerships with international companies, Nykaa is shifting from a pure-player model to an integrated omnichannel...
6 February 2026
Why Wall Street is backing Walmart as Amazon reshapes grocery
As Amazon confirms the closure of Fresh and Go stores in a refocusing move, Walmart crosses the symbolic threshold of US$1 trillion in market capitalisation. A trajectory that illustrates Wall...
5 February 2026
How Leroy Merlin generates 5% additional revenue with a range optimisation tool
On the sidelines of Diamart Consulting’s Retail Data Day event in Paris, Louis des Escotais, Chief Performance Officer at Leroy Merlin, presented to mind Retail the results of Wiser, an internal...
5 February 2026
Facing the rise of Google Pay, Apple Pay and Wero, Lyf shuts down
Eight years after launch, Lyf ceased operations due to failure to gain profitability. Despite several major innovations in mobile payments, the fintech company did not reach critical scale, facing...
5 February 2026
Tata Consultancy Services warns only 24% of retailers use AI for autonomous decision-making 
Despite a strong rhetoric around AI, retail struggles to move beyond chatbots. According to the TCS Global Retail Outlook 2026 study, based on responses from 800 executives across 18 countries, AI...
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