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The new generation of Walkbase radars (Stratacache Group)0, launched at NRF and using millimetre waves, will be deployed in 2025 by two European retailers, mind Retail has learned.

21 January 2025

[NRF 2025] L’Oréal makes AI a strategic pillar of development in 2025

AI assistant for more engaging online talks, diagnostics, virtual product fitting... On the sidelines of NRF, Béatrice Dautzenberg, Global Beauty Tech Director at L'Oréal, shared with mind Retail...

17 January 2025

BNPL: Amazon acquires Indian start-up Axio for US$150 million

After acquiring the ODV streaming company MX player last June, Amazon (9M 2024 sales: US$450.2 billion, up by 11.2% in a year) took over a second Indian start-up in December. This is Axio, which...

17 January 2025

Ingka aims to inject €700 million into recycling over the next 5 years

On January 15, Ingka Group (2024 sales: €41.8 billion, down 5.6% year-on-year) announced an investment of €1 billion in recycling infrastructures. The budget allocated to the Circular...

17 January 2025

Ahold Delhaize consolidates, with two acquisitions in Belgium and Romania

In Europe, Ahold Delhaize is starting 2025 with a phase of consolidation. In Belgium and Romania, the business is to add 2,000 stores through acquisitions of Delfood and Profi.

17 January 2025

Gifi is entitled to a second chance, but Founder is not

On January 14 2025, the Founder of Gifi (sales of €1.3 billion in the fiscal year of 15 months to December 2023, 700 stores, 17 countries) obtained an agreement from creditors. According to...

16 January 2025

Mercadona increases the pay of all staff by 8.5%

From 2025, to increase the purchasing power of staff, Spanish largest grocery retailer Mercadona (turnover 2023: €35.53 billion, up 15% in a year via 1,681 stores) is increasing salaries of...

16 January 2025

[NRF 2025] Raspberry raises US$24 million to put AI at the service of sustainability

Ten months after an initial round of US$4.5 million, American company Raspberry AI secured US$24 million. Thanks to the AI image generation solution, fashion designers can visualise rendering of...

15 January 2025

[NRF 2025] Under threat from customs duties, CSR is fading into the background

At this year's NRF, retailers' CSR initiatives seem to have all but disappeared from the agenda in the face of upcoming political and customs tax issues. Jérôme Del Porto, Director of Circularity...

15 January 2025

Meta and Amazon join Walmart in reviewing HR inclusion policies

Meta and Amazon are backtracking in a fight against discrimination. After abolishing fact-checking in the U.S.A., Meta announced in a memo sent to staff on January 10, 2025, a scrapping of...

13 January 2025

Wayfair leaves Germany and makes 750 employees redundant

After laying off 1,650 staff in January 2024, the American furniture DNVB Wayfair (9M 2024 sales: US$8.73 billion, down 1.8%) announced on January 10, a plan to make 750 staff redundant (3% of the...

13 January 2025

[NRF 2025] Shopping assistants, forecasting, digital twins: Nvidia unveils the new use cases for AI in retail and supply chain

According to the Managing Director of Retail & CPG at Nvidia, the 2nd largest capitalisation in the U.S.A. after Apple (on January 10, 2025, Editor’s note), the supply chain, computer vision...

10 January 2025

[mind Retail Exclusive] Constance Fouquet makes a fresh start in 2025

According to our sources, Constance Fouquet has left Maisons du Monde (9M 2024 sales: €705 million, down 11.4%). Hired in April 2022 after five years at Veepee, in a context of rapid digital...

10 January 2025

Eager to rival with Criteo and Epsilon, Amazon Ads launches monetisation service for retailers

On January 9, at CES, Amazon Ads launched the beta version of a new monetisation service for the e-commerce sites of multi-brand retailers, called Retail Ad Service. With this service, available...

10 January 2025

[mind Retail Exclusive] Adeo and United.b digitalise after-sales service with Platana

In the D.I.Y. and electronics sectors, Adeo and United.b are tackling the challenge of after-sales service efficiency and data exploitation head on. mind Retail details how two new retailers are...

10 January 2025

Cosmetics: a European directive could cost the French industry €1 billion

On January 1, 2025, the revised European directive on waste water treatment came into force. Published on December 12, 2024, in the Official Journal of the European Union, this introduces a system...

9 January 2025

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