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UK. Supermarkets give staff a helping hand amid rising inflation
Shopping vouchers, free meals and even a second pay rise in the same year – a host of measures have been announced in the UK retail sector to support staff amid rising prices. Such measures also...
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23 September 2022
ID Kids to test SoftPOS payment
…In a bid to make a payment experience more transparent, the ID Kids childcare retailer will be testing “SoftPOS” mobile payment in stores from 2023. This new payment trend...
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23 September 2022
[Use Case] Furniture retailer But quadrupled click-through rate with location-based SMS
…The contextAlthough for furniture retailer But (320 stores, total turnover of €2.12 billion in 2021), the paper leaflet remains the primary marketing and sales activation lever, the...
23 September 2022
VTEX chooses integrated payment from Adyen
…On 16 September, VTEX (2021 sales of US$ 150 million via 38 countries) joined forces with payment solutions provider Adyen. By integrating payment into its offer, the Brazilian...
23 September 2022
The carbon footprint of stores is twice as large as e-commerce
According to EuroCommerce, 94% of the Dutch, 82% of the Germans and 82% of the French bought online in 2021. The volume of deliveries is exploding, as are the associated CO2 emissions. Should...
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- Retailer and e-commerce
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21 September 2022
How ManoMano engages trade customers digitally
Faced with the expansion of Screwfix (Kingfisher) in Europe, ManoMano is enhancing its app dedicated to B2B customers with a new loyalty programme. The marketplace, which generates 20% of business...
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- Retailer and e-commerce
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20 September 2022
UK: Boots to roll out marketplace with Mirakl
…The British drugstore chain Boots (a subsidiary of Walgreens Boots Alliance, 2021 turnover of US$133 billion, up 7.5%) will launch a digital marketplace in spring 2023 with Mirakl...
19 September 2022
[Amazon Results] Amazon caught by rising inflation and end of Covid
In Q2 2022, Amazon's total revenue fell by 4.6% year-on-year. After falling 3% in Q1 2022, online sales fell another 0.5%.
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- Retailer and e-commerce
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19 September 2022
Printemps expected in New York
Article by Sophie Baque, published on September 16, 2022…The Printemps department store retailer, controlled by the Qatari-Luxembourg fund Disa, will open a department store in Manhattan in...
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19 September 2022
John Lewis Partnership to give staff free meals during 3 months
JLP, which owns the John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets (sales of € 15 billion in 2021 up by 1%), will give its some 80,000 employees free meals between 3 October 2022 and...
16 September 2022
In China, H&M is finally back on Tmall
After being suspended from the Chinese Internet following the boycott of Xinjiang products in 2020, the Swedish fashion retailer H&M (US$5.36 billion turnover in Q2 2022, up by 12% in local...
8 September 2022
Walmart wants to take full control of Massmart
On August 29, Walmart launched a US$377.6 million offer (53% above the closing stock price) to fully acquire Massmart, which operates Builders, Game, Masscash and Makro stores in South Africa. The...
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8 September 2022
Yes Ad : marketing and commercial actions in a world without leaflets ?
If the subject of zero leaflets is not new in the retail sector, it depends on the ambition and freedom of each company. In 2022, inflation, environmental and legal constraints have created an...
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- Retailer and e-commerce
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8 September 2022
Walmart speeds up stock management with Vizpick and Blue Yonder
During the company’s Q2 earnings conference call (which ended on July 29, 2022), Walmart announced increased efficiency and speed for inventory management at 4,500 U.S. stores. The...
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2 September 2022
[Data] The state of the quick commerce market in France
What is the size of the quick commerce market in France? Why is it no longer growing? The data provided to mind Retail by IRI and Fox Intelligence highlight the main trends in this market in the...
USA: Sephora fined US$1.3 million for CCPA non-compliance
…The California Attorney General announced on Wednesday 24 August, 2022, an agreement with cosmetics retailer Sephora to pay a US$1.3 million fine for failing to comply with the CCPA, the...
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1 September 2022
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...
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19 September 2026
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...
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18 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