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Apple eager to enter Saudi Arabia
Apple is amid advanced talks with Riyadh on opening stores in
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18 January 2018
Carrefour makes inroads in Cameroon
With an investment of €10.7 million in early December, the Director of CFAO Retail in Cameroon Luc Demez inaugurated a 1st “Playce” mall in Doula (in the Bonamoussadi residential...
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18 January 2018
Hermès opens a dedicated perfume store in Dubai
As perfume is the best-selling beauty category in the Middle East (perfumes account for around 60% of the beauty market in the Gulf, i.e. twice the world’s average), Hermès opened a...
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18 January 2018
Decathlon to land in Kenya
The sporting goods retailer will open a 1,500-sq.m GLA store in Nairobi in the second half of 2018. This will be in
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18 January 2018
U.A.E. Personalisation of home equipment expands
In the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), a new home-grown retail concept has opened under The Home brand, owned by the Royal Group. Inaugurated near the Mall of the Emirates in December 2017 on Umm...
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18 January 2018
Jumia deploys its showrooms in Kenya
In Nairobi, the online retailer Jumia innovates with two “showrooms”: the first opened in June 2017 on Koinange Street (area of 650 sq.m GLA) in the CBD district...
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18 January 2018
Lululemon sees “brick & mortar” potential
“In 2015, we had one single store format of 280 sq.m GLA and all stores were pretty much the same” said Celeste Burgoyne, Retail Vice-President at Lululemon. “Today, we are...
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18 January 2018
How Amazon lowers costs of returns
Eager to lower costs, Amazon has expanded options for clients to return items directly to a store or secure locker. In late 2017, Amazon had 2,000 lockers in the U.S. including 400 at Whole Foods...
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18 January 2018
How Dollar General became one of the most profitable U.S
retailers. In the year to February 2017, DG’s profit was double that of Macy’s on less revenue, via 14,000 U.S. stores. Its US$22 billion market value eclipses Kroger, the 2nd largest...
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18 January 2018
Lidl slows expansion in the U.S.A
Newcomer Lidl took a strategic pause in the U.S.A., slowing growth plans and considering opening smaller stores. In 2017, Lidl opened 47 stores vs. 150 for its well-established rival Aldi...
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18 January 2018
“Online retailers can’t be profitable”. Wrong !
In the U.S.A., the Stock Market debut (I.P.O.) for fashion and styling online retailer Stitch Fix refutes a well-established belief that online retailers can’t be profitable. In the quarter...
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18 January 2018
Kellogg’s, THE CONCEPT OF THE MONTH
In the wake of Unilever’s wave of pop-up stores, promoting brands like Magnum, Dove or St Ives, Kellogg’s opened in mid-December a 565-sq.m G.L.A. café in New York, near Union...
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18 January 2018
Brazil’s recovery offers good fortune for beauty retailers
n Brazil, the latest economic recovery will be decisive for the beauty sector, which historically grows faster than G.D.P. According to the Abihpec Association, the beauty market income should...
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18 January 2018
Brazil. Mall operators accelerate projects
Four years after the latest big cycle of investments in new malls ended in Brazil, mall developers aim to accelerate investments in 2018. The trend is to re-start older projects previously on...
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18 January 2018
“Come and Test” at Dyson
Experiential concepts are gaining influence within home electrical retailers. In the U.S., Dyson opened a flagship in December at 640 Fifth Avenue, New York. Covering 967 sq.m GLA on one floor...
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18 January 2018
Retailers tax arrangement under E.U. investigation
In December, the European Commission opened an investigation about Inter-Ikea’s specific tax practice with the Netherlands’ government, which issued two specific tax rulings from 2006...
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18 January 2018
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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...
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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...
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According to our information, Fnac Darty is about to deploy European payment solution Wero, based on account-to-account instant transfers, on its e-commerce sites. Already active in Germany at...
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4 September 2026
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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Before an IPO, Shein forced to reveal margin erosion in 2025 and impact of US tariff shock
Made public ahead of a Hong Kong listing planned for September, Shein’s financial documents, seen by mind Retail, confirm the shift experienced by the fast-fashion retailer. Despite a 8% sales...
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O’Boticario rolls out AI diagnostics across 4,000 stores with Haut.ai
On August 18, Brazilian cosmetics retail chain O’Boticario (2025 GMV up by 6.7%) announced the deployment of skin analysis technology provided by Estonian start-up Haut.AI. It will be rolled...
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21 August 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