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According to Reuters, Chinese fashion pure-player Shein (sales of US$15.7 billion in 2021, with the U.S.A. as its largest market) has hired Bank of America, Goldman...

3 February 2022

Amazon Style : Concept of the Month

After setting the "Just Walk Out" technology as a standard for cashier-free grocery stores, Amazon intends to disrupt fashion retail with Amazon Style. This technology-infused store concept is...

2 February 2022

NRF: Observations from the Retail Big Show 2022

Fabrice Haiat, C.E.O. of Yoobic, and Guillaume Rio, Director of Technology Trends at Echangeur BNP Paribas PF, covered the NRF in New York. Where the 2022 show was disrupted by Covid-19, they...

1 February 2022

George Yates, Back Market : “In 16 markets, our main challenge is to ensure that supply keeps pace with demand”

Only six months after previous fundraising, the second-hand marketplace Back Market (specialising in electrical products), raised €450 million and reached a valuation of €5.1 billion. George...

31 January 2022

Netherlands. Hema wants to sell to companies

The potential of B2B is of interest to many retailers. If professional customers are at the heart of Ankorstore’s business model (GMV grew by 950% in 2021 compared to 2020), they are also of...

31 January 2022

Cyber-attacks: time to mobilise defences!

Stores deprived of their VSEs, merchant sites rendered inoperable by malicious software. How to fight against cyber hackers who are taking full advantage of the boom in e-commerce? How to...

28 January 2022

Ingka Centres invests in a 7th mall in China

After 3 mall openings last year in China, the subsidiary of Ingka Group (whose turnover reached €37.4 billion as of August 31, 2021, up by 6%) is continuing expansion and announced the...

28 January 2022

Victoria’s Secret cedes control of China

On Jan. 25, 2022, Victoria’s Secret (VS) announced a joint venture in China, 49% owned by Chinese rival Regina Miracle and 51% owned by the company.

28 January 2022

Mango moves to 5th Avenue

Mango (€1.84 billion in sales in 2020 including 42% online) will open in the first half of 2022 a 2,100-sq.m and three-level flagship store in Manhattan (711 Fifth Avenue).

28 January 2022

Consumer reviews. Fashion Nova pays a US$-4.2 million settlement to FTC

On January 26th, 2022, U.S. retailer Fashion Nova (US$ 615 million in 2020) has payed US$ 4.2 million to the Federal Trade Commission. According to the FTC, the California-based company used...

28 January 2022

Shopify and JD.com launch in the Chinese market

On January 18th, the Canadian firm Shopify, which provides retailers with software to build and operate an e-commerce site, concluded a major agreement with the Chinese JD.com.

27 January 2022

Decathlon: managerial audacity follows a strategy

Barbara Martin Coppola (aged 45) will take over as C.E.O. at Decathlon in March 2022. A telecoms engineer by training (critical in the race in digital transformation), the former C.D.O. of...

27 January 2022

Wang Ning, Chinese toy specialist, lands in London with Pop Mart

Aged 35, Mr. Wang Ning made his fortune with an improbable bet: selling toys (figurines and dolls) in surprise bags. In 2020, his company Pop Mart recorded a turnover of US$382 million, up by 49%...

27 January 2022

Wholesale. Metro AG explores the future of its Indian subsidiary

In India, the German Metro AG is weakened by the brazen disruption of the pure-players JioMart (Reliance Retail) and Udaan.

27 January 2022

Israel. The start-up Placer.ai raises US$100 million

Founded in 2018, the Israeli start-up which specialises in traffic data over commercial areas was valued at US$1 billion after a funding round on January 12th, 2022.

26 January 2022

Good Food Holdings. “We are in the early stages of selecting dark stores”

In the U.S.A., supermarket chain Good Food Holdings operates 51 stores. According to C.E.O. Neil Stern, inflation, staff shortage and higher wages encourage retailers to automate operations.

26 January 2022

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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.

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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...

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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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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

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

With Grand Frais, Apollo makes a first move into European grocery retail

Through an agreement to acquire 70% of the operator of Grand Frais, the US investment fund Apollo aims to double stores and evolve a model that has so far been entirely focused on physical retail...

19 December 2025