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Retail tech: What are the best-performing vendor technologies?
As retailers struggle to retain staff amidst more volatile demands from consumers, tech platforms refining vendor businesses are innovating in all areas. These include task planning, messaging...
- Retail
- Essentials
7 March 2024
[confidential] Skello relies on Open-Ai to speed up the creation of sales schedules
From March onwards, Skello, which specialises in scheduling tools for in-store team members, will be integrating a generative AI function. After launching quarter-hourly planning in the summer of...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
7 March 2024
After Kiabi, Primark prepares to enter India
Primark and Kiabi, two European giants in the low-price fashion sector, are looking to expand into the Indian fashion market. mind Retail takes a look at their respective strategies.
- Retail
- News
7 March 2024
Alshaya closes nearly half of stores in Egypt’s troubled economy
After 18 years in Egypt, Kuwaiti operator Alshaya decided at the start of 2024 to cut more than 40% of its local business, closing 60 of 145 local stores in the coming weeks. The lay-off plan...
- Retail
- News brief
7 March 2024
Regulatory : Vietnam wants to revitalise shopping streets
Five years after the creation of the CPTPP trade agreement with the U.K., Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Mexico and Peru, Vietnam is...
- Retail
- News brief
6 March 2024
Lulu Group to build a major mall of 288,000 sq.m in Ahmedabad
In 2024, Abu Dhabi-based retailer Lulu Group (global annual turnover of US$7.3 billion in 2023) plans to build one of India’s largest malls. Located in Ahmedabad it will cover 288,000 sq.m...
- Retail
- News brief
5 March 2024
Aramco strengthens in South America with the takeover of Esmax
On 1 March 2024, Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco (valued at US$7.62 billion) acquired Chile’s Esmax Distribucion SPA from the Southern Cross Group (100% buyout, amount not disclosed). The...
- Retail
- News brief
5 March 2024
Jérémie Levy, Converteo: “Generative AI prices are not easy to read or to budget for: we’re dealing with probabilism”
Converteo, whose almost 50% of revenue comes from the retail, beauty and luxury sectors, supports retailers in collecting, modelling, measuring and activating data. Jérémie Levy, Managing...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
4 March 2024
Travel retail: China wants South-East Asia to become a visa-free zone
China is stepping up the number of agreements with neighboring countries, to relax or even lift visa policies. Since March 1, 2024, citizens of China and Thailand can travel to the other country...
- Retail
- News brief
1 March 2024
EU: sustainability due diligence directive blocked by France, Germany and Italy
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive has failed to win support from the qualified majority of member states needed to reach the final vote in the European Parliament. The...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
1 March 2024
USA: Ikea wants to take advantage of falling valuations and acquire more malls
While e-commerce has plateaued at around 25% of sales for the past 2 years, Ingka Group (total sales €47.6 billion in 2023, up by 6.6%) is stepping up property investments. Last week, Cindy...
- Retail
- News brief
1 March 2024
Temu wants to open a digital marketplace to American sellers
The e-commerce platform Temu (a subsidiary of PDD Holdings, Pinduoduo’s parent company), known for low-value products, is expanding considerably. By October 2023, Temu was selling into 47...
27 February 2024
Electronics: Currys to be taken over by China’s JD.com?
After selling off the Greek business in November 2023 and cutting operating costs, Currys PLC (€4.9 billion turnover in 6 months to the end of October 2023) could receive a takeover bid from...
- Retail
- News brief
27 February 2024
Carrefour ends 2023 on a high note and aims to lease-operate 30% of hypermarkets
Carrefour has published a positive balance sheet for 2023, boosted by external growth in Brazil and in Europe. In France, the strategy of switching to franchising and leasing contracts has...
27 February 2024
As food deflation accelerates in China, Hong Kong’s shoppers adapt behavior
Since Q4 2023, China has been facing deflation. According to the Bureau of National Statistics, the country saw in 2023 the biggest price drop in over 10 years : this was particularly true for...
- Retail
- News brief
23 February 2024
[mind Retail Exclusive] Gamestop relies on Yoobic to bring generative AI to the heart of stores
E-learning, internal chatbot, after-sales service... Eager to improve operational efficiency, video game retailer Gamestop is the first retailer to have tested Yoobic Neo, a new suite of tools...
23 February 2024
Our mind news
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...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
19 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
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...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
4 September 2026
Most viewed articles of the month on mind Retail
What readers clicked on the most last month.
What readers clicked on the most last month.
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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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
1 September 2026