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GDP per country
In the first quarter of 2020, GDP fell by 6.8% in China. It also fell by 5.8% in France, 5.2% in Spain, 4.8% in the USA and 3.8% in Germany. In the Eurozone, its decline reached -3,8 %.
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20 May 2020
Luxury market
According to Bain & Co. the luxury market (personal goods) is expected to decline between -20% and -35% this year. The McKinsey firm predicts a decline of between -35% and -39% for...
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20 May 2020
Growth in e-commerce sales
According to the latest ACI Worldwide study in early May 2020, e-commerce sales jumped by 209% in April 2020 compared to April 2019. “Hundreds of millions of consumers around the world have...
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20 May 2020
Global GDP
According to the I.M.F., the Covid-19-related recession is expected to be deeper than the financial crisis of 2008-09. World G.D.P. is expected to decline by 3% in 2020, compared to -0.1% in 2009.
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20 May 2020
Department stores. What prospects and strategies?
According to several department store managers interviewed by our editors, the return to normal should not take place before 2021. At a time when certain groups such as J.C.Penney and Neiman...
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20 May 2020
Retail. The West delays whilst the East is innovating
From Hong Kong to the Emirates, the retail of tomorrow is being invented in the Far East. Where business has reopened, retailers and property companies are charting a new course. Business...
Mark Thomson, Zebra : “Self-scanning and contactless payment is now booming in Europe”
Zebra delivers software and solutions that helps retailers to elevate customers’ shopping experience, to track and manage inventory and to improve supply chain efficiency. Sophie Baqué discussed...
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5 May 2020
Ebay poaches a Walmart’s online expert as C.E.O.
On April 27th, Jamie Iannone, (a seasoned executive of traditional retail) will take appointment as C.E.O. of Ebay, a pioneer of the Silicon Valley online industry. Iannone is a Princeton and...
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20 April 2020
Galeries Lafayette reshuffles its buying team
In March 2019, Galeries Lafayette inaugurated a new flagship on the Champs Élysées, highly focused on luxury and designers’ brands. A year later, the Group’s management...
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20 April 2020
Levi’s and VF Corp. Time for acquisitions
As stores have been closed for a month, retailers have activated a large array of possible actions to stem losses and find the necessary working capital. These include offering employees partial...
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20 April 2020
Petit Bateau. “E-commerce keeps us afloat”
At the end of 2019, children's clothing retailer Petit Bateau (Rocher Group, turnover of €2.5 billion in 2019) operated 441 stores in 60 countries. 50% of turnover in 2019 was generated outside...
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20 April 2020
Why is e-commerce unable to deliver on time?
“I didn’t think I would ever say this. Paradoxically, we are trying to slow down our online business,” said the Director of a specialised retailer. From Europe to the U.S...
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20 April 2020
SPECIALISED RETAIL. STRATEGIC business interventions in force
Delaying collections, shifting online, operating smarter promotions. Fashion and accessory retailers share their strategic choices.
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20 April 2020
Grocery stores. What strategies for the end of the crisis?
Many food retailers could emerge from the crisis with more punch than they have entered. But with which organisational schemes? G.R.N. decrypts their short and long-term action plans from Europe...
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20 April 2020
“Chinese may (carefully) return to stores. Or perhaps not.”
As a retail expert based in Shanghai, Eric Song Yun is the Founder of Songyun Information Technology Co. For Global Retail News, he explained how business is resuming in China’s economic capital...
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20 April 2020
China and Austria. Which learnings as stores reopen?
From China to Austria, retail is gradually emerging from hibernation. What are the most effective strategies and timetables?
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While his start-up shakes up an array of players focused on product data management solutions, Edouard Margain, Co-Founder of Upsellr, shared with us at NRF Europe the results of the data...
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19 September 2026
While at NRF Europe, Hanshow revealed a major contract with one of the U.S. retail giants to mind Retail, its smart trolley has yet to prove a market match. A hardware-focused strategy that raises...
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18 September 2026
The Hygie31 retail group, known for the Lafayette Pharmacies, is continuing to transform its websites, driven by Cocooncenter. Thanks to an AI strategy and a fully redesigned IT architecture, it...
10 September 2026
By launching a conversational chatbot with Algolia and a new module converting school lists into e-commerce carts this summer, Bureau Vallée aims to ease the chore of back-to-school supply list...
10 September 2026
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Hugues Chanoine (Hygie31 Digital): “The next step is to eliminate filters to move to 100% conversational search”
The Hygie31 retail group, known for the Lafayette Pharmacies, is continuing to transform its websites, driven by Cocooncenter. Thanks to an AI strategy and a fully redesigned IT architecture, it...
10 September 2026
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ChatGPT: Bureau Vallée’s recipe to capture back-to-school spending
By launching a conversational chatbot with Algolia and a new module converting school lists into e-commerce carts this summer, Bureau Vallée aims to ease the chore of back-to-school supply list...
10 September 2026
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Walmart finally accepts in-store payments with Apple Pay and Google Pay
Sanctioned by financial markets after a sharp US slowdown in Q2, Walmart is reviewing a checkout strategy. Abandoning a rejection of technological giants, the group is rolling out Apple Pay and...
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24 August 2026
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Why Shein emits twice as much CO2 as Inditex for equivalent revenue
On the occasion of an IPO, Shein revealed a carbon footprint of 25.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2025, up by 20% compared to a reference year. For an equivalent sales level, the fast...
3 September 2026
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Lidl’s owner continues cloud services offensive
With €2.2 billion in cloud revenue and growth 3 times faster than the rest of the business, Schwarz Group continues a technological shift. Between investments in its own data centres, buyouts in...
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1 September 2026