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At NRF 2024 mind Retail learned that U.S. lingerie online retailer Adore Me (part of Victoria's Secret) is moving away from a purely digital and DTC approach. To gain traction in the wholesale...

16 January 2024

Picnic raises €355 million from historical shareholders

As finance opportunities in the tech sector remains under pressure, Picnic has again demonstrated solid strength to investors. On January 9, the pure-player raised €355 million, in which all...

11 January 2024

[NRF 2024] Consumer service, in-store cloud service…Google launches 5 generative AI features for retail

Ahead of the NRF, Google Cloud announced the launch of generative AI solutions. We selected 4 of them. Dedicated to consumer services, “Customer Service Modernization” can design...

11 January 2024

How Decathlon and Mango continued business in Russia

According to an investigation by Disclose media based on internal documents, Decathlon supplied ARM, the Russian buyer of its stores (now active under the Desport brand) for more than one year...

11 January 2024

One year before the expected roll-out of “Yes Ad”, what are the best promotional strategies?

With almost 18 months of experimentation of “Yes Ad” and a national launch expected in 2025, retailers have reviewed promotional and marketing plans over the past year. mind Retail interviewed...

11 January 2024

Franchising: Why McDonald’s faces boycott in Malaysia

In Malaysia, McDonald’s is caught up in the consequences of the war between Israel and Gaza. On 5 January 2023, the company’s Malaysian franchisee took a local pro-Palestinian group...

10 January 2024

Supply-chain : container prices jump 250% between Asia and Europe

Will 2024 be the year of a new logistics crisis for retail, as suffered in 2021? According to the Drewry World Container Index, the Asia-Europe rate for a 40-foot sea container has jumped from...

10 January 2024

Sports : Valuations of Li Ning and Anta plummet by US$25 billion

As consumer spending slows in China, retailers are reviewing strategies. During the Q3 2023 financial results, Adidas noted a plan to offer cheaper shoes to Chinese consumers. “If we want to...

9 January 2024

China’s beauty market plummets in November, joining the D.I.Y. market

After a 1st half-year up by 4.8%, the Chinese cosmetics market continued to show signs of weakness in H2 : -4.1% in July, +9.7% in August, +1.6% in September, +1.1% in October and -3.5% in...

9 January 2024

Daniel Kretinsky has Brussels’ green light for the takeover of Casino

From the beginning of March, the consortium led by the Czech businessman will take over what remains of the Casino Group. A business that has been halved since the sale of Latin America. The...

9 January 2024

Supply chain: Blue Yonder launches generative AI functionality

As generative AI use cases have been mushrooming in the retail sector, US supply-chain management software publisher Blue Yonder (formerly JDA, with customers including Asda, Walmart and PVH)...

9 January 2024

Amazon and Macy’s tighten returns policies

In the U.S.A. initiatives aimed at preserving e-commerce margins were stepped up over the holiday season. At Amazon, which already charges US$1 per return via UPS, the free delivery window has...

9 January 2024

Online retailer Zulily enters liquidation agreement

The liquidation of the pure-player Zulily (children’s fashion, home decoration, 2022 sales of US$ 906 million) in favour of creditors directly implicates Amazon, via a legal action. This...

9 January 2024

Descrozailles Law: EuroCommerce asks Brussels to take action against France

In mid-December, EuroCommerce, the supermarket and wholesaler lobby, lodged a formal appeal with the European Commission against the Descrozaille (or Egalim 3) law, passed by the French Parliament...

3 January 2024

[mind Retail Exclusive] Socloz made redundancies at the end of the year 2023

According to our information, Socloz carried out a redundancy program in the fourth quarter 2023, affecting almost 1 in 5 staff. This was in response to a difficult market environment...

3 January 2024

[mind Retail Exclusive] Auchan tests Hanshow’s Lumina displays in 6 hypermarkets

To boost the display and performances of a fruit and vegetable aisle, Auchan Retail is testing new IoT functionalities with electronic label supplier Hanshow. Samir Amellal, Chief Information...

2 January 2024

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How Upsellr boosts conversion at Les Mousquetaires and targets traditional PIMs

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...

19 September 2026

Hanshow makes a breakthrough in the US but stumbles on the economics of smart trolley

While at NRF Europe, Hanshow revealed a major contract with one of the U.S. retail giants to mind Retail, its smart trolley has yet to prove a market match. A hardware-focused strategy that raises...

18 September 2026

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

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