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To support “drive-to-store”, the Schmidt group subsidiary deployed an AI chatbot on the e-commerce site to improve conversion of in-store appointment bookings. For mind Retail, Daniel Freyd, Chief...

20 November 2025

Payments and e-commerce : which retail tech solutions dominate French websites?

In mid-November 2025, mind Retail analysed 50 French e-commerce websites using Wappalyzer to identify technologies installed on them. The result was 144 solutions were recorded, installed more...

20 November 2025

Aive extends series A with €4.5 million in debt and announces a new client

Alongside a Series A round of €16.5 million (including €12 million in equity in June and €4.5 million in debt announced on November 15) the start-up Aive has just signed a new...

19 November 2025

The price of imported food soars in the U.S.A.

According to the latest statistics, food prices have risen sharply by the end of September 2025 due to tariffs and climate change. Coffee, bananas, as well as meat, fish and eggs are particularly...

18 November 2025

Payments: Wallets accelerate in a fragmented market

As retailers seek to streamline shopping journeys, payment fluidity is becoming a key conversion driver. Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, PayPal: wallets enable retailers to reduce delays and...

18 November 2025

Jeff Bezos takes the helm of AI start-up project Prometheus

At a time when Michael Burry, the American investor known for predicting the subprime crisis, is forecasting a burst of the speculative bubble around AI, former Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos is now...

18 November 2025

Alma to launch a payment app in France

The BNPL specialist Alma (2024 GMV: €2 billion) will launch “by the end of the year a mobile app for consumers, enabling them to pay in instalments with Alma at all merchants, not only...

18 November 2025

Ikea compresses margin in 2025 to stay accessible despite falling revenue

In a context of rising tariffs and lower in-store traffic gains, Ikea closed the financial year with another decline in sales. While volumes increased and e-commerce reached 28% of activity, the...

17 November 2025

Germany: Lidl and Decathlon roll out Wero for their e-commerce

Wero, the digital wallet developed under the European EPI initiative, is accelerating deployment, recently signed with 3 major German retail players, mind Retail learned.

17 November 2025

BNPL: in a mature market, Alma, Klarna, Scalapay, Younited and Oney seek new growth levers

As BNPL reached maturity in France and Europe and commonplace online, players in the sector are accelerating their transformation. Longer instalments, new verticals, extended services and...

14 November 2025

Carrefour: with 4% of the shares Rodolphe Saadé strengthens governance after the Diniz exit

A page is turning at Carrefour. On November 12, 2025 the Brazilian Diniz family (a shareholder since 2014 through its holding Peninsula) sold the 8% stake. At the same time Rodolphe...

13 November 2025

USA: Visa and Mastercard ease up on interchange fees

Visa and Mastercard reached a historic agreement with US retailers to reduce fees associated with credit cards. This opens an unprecedented breach, while the two giants are suspected of abusing a...

12 November 2025

U.S. Shutdown hits food assistance and threatens sales at Walmart and Kroger

While Donald Trump signed the bill to reopen the government on 12 November 2025, the shutdown that began in early October disrupted payments from the national food assistance programme. Each...

12 November 2025

At Roissy 80% of checked Shein items found non-compliant

Following inspections at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday November 6, 2025 on 200,000 Shein parcels “8 out of 10 items have proved non-compliant so far”, the French Ministry...

10 November 2025

[Amazon Results] Amazon delivers a solid Q3 2025, driven by AWS, e-commerce and advertising

Amazon recorded solid growth over the first 9 months of 2025, driven by e-commerce, cloud activities and a rebound in advertising. However, the group is seeing profitability ease under record...

10 November 2025

How RougeGorge brings weather data into CRM strategy

After 4 years of collaboration on personalised emails the lingerie retailer RougeGorge is accelerating with retail tech partner Reelevant, which is expanding within AFM thanks to recent contracts...

10 November 2025

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Marketplaces: Stockly enters Switzerland with MediaMarkt, Decathlon, Galaxus and Manor

After a loss-making but high-growth year in 2025, the stock-pooling start-up for marketplaces signed agreements with 4 Swiss players, mind Retail learned. By taking on one of Europe’s most...

30 January 2026

Save launches an e-commerce site to support a shift towards sales

Having just reached break-even, the French subsidiary of refurbished specialist Save intends to go beyond an historical model of repair to develop sales of accessories and refurbished products...

23 January 2026

Shoptimus AI scales up in grocery smart shopping lists and prepares for a new funding round

After securing a strategic partnership with Spanish grocer Bon Preu, retail tech firm Shoptimus AI—first spotted by Carrefour—is accelerating a rollout. By leveraging AI agents to automate grocery...

11 January 2026

Agentic AI: Hymalaia attracts retailers and announces imminent fundraising

According to our sources, the young start-up Hymalaia is continuing development in retail with 4 new retailers currently in POC and an imminent fundraising. We examine the details.

16 December 2025

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11 January 2026

With Walmart, Ulta Beauty, Zalando and Carrefour, Google launches an agentic commerce protocol

Following the launch of payments in Copilot, Google is preparing to join OpenAI and Microsoft, but with a more integrated version focused on its own payment method, Google Pay. These moves...

13 January 2026

Circana: French e-commerce ended 2025 with strong growth, hypermarkets continue to decline

After four years of decline, volumes of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) rose again in 2025 in France and Europe, although they did not compensate for four years of losses. The rebound was...

15 January 2026

2026 Trends – Chatbots, WhatsApp, social networks: don’t miss out on conversation

(Trends 2/6) After a cautious observation phase by retailers and some high-profile hallucination issues, 2025 was a turning point operationally for chatbots and conversational tools. Positioned...

13 January 2026

Black Friday: Amazon’s AI assistant Rufus featured in 38% of sessions in the US

While peak season sales, revealed at the NRF Big Show, rose by 4.1% in the US from November 1 to December 31, 2025, Rufus, Amazon’s conversational chatbot, confirmed its traction. During the...

15 January 2026

2026 Trends – How far should retailers open the door to AI Search engines ?

(Trends 1/6) With data visibility, recommendations, transactions on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, LLMs are establishing themselves as new entry points for e-commerce. As search, comparison and...

8 January 2026