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Having initiating retail media in 2020 with Criteo, King Jouet (330 stores in France, Switzerland and Benelux, steady turnover of €412 million in 2022) the firm shared results...

21 April 2023

USA: Ikea invests €2 billion over 3 years with omnichannel

Boosted by the tax benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act from August 2022, Ikea is investing €2 billion over 3 years to turn the U.S.A. into the largest market by sales. However, on an annual...

21 April 2023

Neil Pein, BNP Paribas : “We will launch SoftPOS as a pilot in Q2 2023”

Axepta, which brings together cash solutions for retailers within BNP Paribas, integrated Floa's fractional payment offerings into customer service offerings in 2022. Neil Pein, Head of Payments...

21 April 2023

Food retail: 6 charts to understand the financial health of the world’s Top 10 in 2022

Rising costs, inflation, purchasing power. After 2 years of crazy growth boosted by Covid-19, 2022 was a good one in terms of sales, but not profitability. For the 2023 edition of this exclusive...

20 April 2023

Convenience: Japan’s 7-Eleven powerhouse eyes Europe sales

Since the beginning of 2023, competition has intensified in Europe with the arrival of new grocery operators. The Japanese giant Seven & I Holdings is about to make inroads in various...

18 April 2023

Guillaume Darrousez, CEO Petit Bateau: After 6 months, a second-hand spending customer starts buying our new products”

Guillaume Darrousez, C.E.O. of the Petit Bateau children's wear brand, was a guest of the latest FrenchFounders meeting in Paris, attended by mind Retail. He shared future plans to combine carbon...

14 April 2023

France, Spain and Portugal: split payment is more popular than deferred payment

According to Floa and Kantar, if payment facilities are growing with a rise of e-commerce, European countries show notable differences. In Germany, the use of deferred payment has tripled in 2022...

14 April 2023

Furniture : Conforama and But launch a joint advertising agency

On Monday April 3rd, the household equipment retailers But and Conforama (Mobilux) announced a joint retail media agency called Retailium Media. They will offer advertisers a...

14 April 2023

Sandro : Second-hand, a profitable business from the first year

After 12 months of operations, Sandro shared with mind Retail the results of their second-hand business, which launched 100% online. For the fashion brand, this service is now at a "roll-out...

13 April 2023

Apple makes a deeper foray into India with two first stores

While Apple (2022 revenue of US$394.3 billion, up by 8% vs 2021) took a first step into the Indian market in 2020 with an e-commerce site, the business is now due to open a physical branded...

12 April 2023

U.S. shopping centres diversify offers to attract customers

Following the lead from Unibail Rodamco Westfield, which made residential projects a priority for 2023, the American property owner Macerich is diversifying low-traffic sales areas to increase...

12 April 2023

Amazon and Walmart invest in custom packaging technology

On 20th March, Packsize launched a machine called “Ultra5” exclusively for Walmart, which is able to detect dimensions of any item, cutting and folding cardboard packaging so that it...

7 April 2023

Beauty. The Indian unicorn Nykaa continues to grow like crazy

Despite a departure of five senior executives since January 2023, Nykaa expects sales to grow by around 30% in the financial year ended in March 2023. On 5th April, the pure-player (which also...

7 April 2023

Walmart: By 2026, 65% of web orders prepared in stores will be automated

While Walmart has managed to increase the weight of online sales in 2022, with total revenue growth keeping pace with inflation, the company is making supply-chain automation a priority. Within 3...

7 April 2023

Beauty : L’Oréal adds Aesop to its portfolio of luxury brands

In search of cash, Brazilian beauty retailer Natura & Co had been looking to sell a gold nugget called Aesop since February. L’Oréal (2022 sales of €38.3...

6 April 2023

Etam Group: at Maison 123, the stores are in charge to double ownership of e-wallet loyalty cards

One year after the start of the dematerialisation of the loyalty card with Captain Wallet, the first results are encouraging for the fashion retailer. In 8 months, the value of customers who have...

5 April 2023

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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

Refurbished smartphones: why Largo relies on Speeral automation

The start-up founded by the duo behind Teester and Skeepers is accelerating automation of second-hand product flows. The strategy is to use AI to direct products to high-traffic marketplaces such...

9 December 2025

Leroy Merlin and Aroma‑Zone launch in‑store analytics pilots with XXII

French retail tech XXII, which aims to become the Google Analytics and Contentsquare of physical stores, has already signed with 15 retailers and shopping centres, mind Retail learned. A year...

5 December 2025

Already in POC, Dialog’s conversational agent shows up in the search bar

Buoyed by a €3.8 million seed round closed in mid‑November 2025, French start‑up Dialog, specialised in AI‑based conversational e‑commerce, is accelerating. Initially placed on product pages, this...

4 December 2025

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Laurent Hugou (Les Mousquetaires): “With Diebold’s camera system, shrinkage at self-check-out is reduced by a third”

Shift towards an omnichannel payment service provider, roll-out of mobile payment and Diebold’s computer vision solution for self-checkout, impact of one-click payment on online sales, adoption of...

11 December 2025

How Maison 123 generated €420,000 on WhatsApp in 5 months

Riding on a reduction in Meta’s commercial policy, Wax start‑up specialised in WhatsApp engagement, is gaining ground, capitalising on messaging as a customer acquisition and retention channel in...

3 December 2025

Retail media: Marionnaud bets on print with Figaro to boost drive-to-store

According to our sources, Marionnaud’s beauty retailer will expand an advertising unit into 3 new countries in 2026 and is launching another retail media lever in the French key market. The goal...

26 November 2025

Carmila join forces with Unlimitail and JCDecaux to equip 252 malls

On December 9, Carrefour and Carmila signed a partnership with Unlimitail and JCDecaux to create a retail media network combining indoor DOOH and outdoor OOH across their sites in France and...

12 December 2025

Deborah Van Dessel (Lagardère Travel Retail): “We are testing AI tools and prompts for store layout”

Between global governance, local ambassador clubs and deployments at scale, Lagardère Travel Retail identified major operational gains thanks to AI, while other use cases reveal the current limits...

25 November 2025

Facing Temu and Shein’s offensive, Amazon cuts merchant fees

Asian marketplaces Shein, Temu and AliExpress, weakened in the U.S.A., are accelerating in Europe with very low, even zero, initial commissions. Amazon, as the global largest e-commerce player...

9 December 2025