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Chinese online retailer Pinduoduo wants to compete with Amazon to find new growth drivers, at a time when the Chinese economy is slowing down (G.D.P. grew by 0.4% in Q2 2022 year-on-year, after a...

24 August 2022

[Barometer] Financial indicators of the 10 largest global food retailers in 2021

How has the financial health of the 10 largest global food retailers changed since 2017? How did Target manage to climb to 19% of online sales, when Carrefour is only 4%? How do Ahold Delhaize and...

24 August 2022

The French government wants to support dark stores

Pedestrian pick-up points in several cities, cafés inside a dark store in London... While Gorillas shows willingness to welcome the public in its warehouses, the French government is considering...

23 August 2022

Sephora bets on partnerships with Glossier and Kohl’s

On July 26, 2022, the beauty DNVB Glossier signed an agreement with Sephora to increase omnichannel revenue. Starting in Q1 2023, Glossier’s products (the firm was valued US$1.8 billion in...

22 August 2022

Emaar Malls to sell e-commerce business

…The sale of the Dubai-based Emaar Properties e-commerce fashion business, started in October 2021 is almost complete. The company held a meeting on Thursday 18 August 2022, to arbitrate...

19 August 2022

Ingka Centres starts construction of a first Indian mall

…Ingka Centres, a subsidiary of the Ingka Group (turnover of €37.4 billion in the fiscal year to August 2021 up by 6% year-on-year) started construction of the Gurugram mixed-use...

19 August 2022

Kohl’s rolls out self-pick-up

Eager to improve profitability of e-commerce operations, Kohl's is rolling out a service of a self pick-up, throughout its whole U.S. store network.

18 August 2022

Amazon invests US$1.7 billion in Roomba robot hoovers

…Involved in connected home equipment products, Amazon announced on August 5, 2022, an agreement to buy iRobot Corp, a company that makes, among other things, the Roomba robot hoover, for...

17 August 2022

Greenwashing. Ongoing investigation of Asos, Boohoo and Asda

…On 29 July, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced an investigation into ASOS, Boohoo and Asda to check if the green terms they use are legitimate. Their so-called...

17 August 2022

H&M develops machine learning with Google cloud

…To strengthen its omnichannel strategy, the H&M group expanded a partnership with Google on June 30. The deal uses the Google Cloud offering to develop a new data platform based on AI...

16 August 2022

Live Shopping. TikTok abandons the “Shop” version for Europe and the U.S.A.

…After launching TikTok “Shop” in Indonesia in 2021, ByteDance (the app’s parent company) cancelled plans to offer the new social commerce function for Europe and the...

1 August 2022

Arteum: “Our marketplace will integrate the offer of international museums from 2023”

Phygital, marketplace. With 20 stores in France and Italy, museum shop specialist Arteum is investing in digital services. How to address a new audience online when the offer is associated with a...

26 July 2022

Chile. Victoria’s Secret increases sales with “Click & Collect”

Since the Covid-19 crisis, physical stores have played a central role in e-commerce and omnichannel. Based on this lesson, the lingerie brand use VTEX's technology to deploy “click & collect...

22 July 2022

Taiwan. Carrefour leaves Asia for good

…For a year, Carrefour has been looking for a buyer for the Taiwanese business (sales excluding V.A.T. in 2021 was €2.5 billion via 340 stores, including 68 hypermarkets and 129...

22 July 2022

To compete with Walmart, Costco announces 7 openings in China

While many food retailers have failed in China, the membership-based wholesale model is a success.

22 July 2022

Amazon cuts back on private label offerings due to pressure from competition regulators

Faced with competition infringements, Amazon makes commitments to Brussels and reduces private label offers in the U.S.A.

21 July 2022

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