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…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

Exclusive. Alibaba out of the TOP 10 global retailers in 2021

Since 2017, mind retail published analys of retail revenues for the world's leading retailers. What were these revenues in 2021, for the 10 largest players in the sector? How much of business...

19 July 2022

U.S.A.: The 100% recyclable running shoe you’ll never own

In order to reduce raw material and the CO2 impact, the Swiss trainer manufacturer On Holding invented a subscription model, with the obligation to return used running shoes. The pilot was...

19 July 2022

Amazon launches Store Analytics, a service for analysing in-store promotions performance

…On 29 June 2022, Amazon (turnover of US$469.82 billion in 2021, up by 22% vs 2020) launched a new “Store Analytics” service. This solution optimises data provided by Just Walk...

13 July 2022

Lush invests €8.8 million in European stores despite declining sales

…On 5 July, Lush unveiled the new design of a store in the Greenhithe shopping centre (North West Kent, England), which doubled sales area to 145 sq.m. At the same time, the group announced...

13 July 2022

Morrisons opens a supermarket that consumes 43% less CO2

…At a time when energy costs are soaring, Morrisons opened a first “environmentally friendly” store in Little Clacton (Essex, England) on 6 July. The store emits 43% less...

13 July 2022

Francois Guilluy, Maty : “Our customers can pay with the PayWish app, it’s a small revolution”

Enabling customers to pay quickly and simply, without investing in new Eftpos terminals, while controlling the technical and financial risks. These are the objectives of the jeweller Maty, which...

12 July 2022

NRF-Kantar’s TOP 50 global retailers in 2022

In 2022, Walmart, Amazon, Schwartz and Aldi dominate the annual ranking established by Kantar for the American Retail Federation (NRF). Which retailers have joined and which left the ranking?...

12 July 2022

India : Reliance signs a franchising deal with Gap

Gap Inc (sales of US$16.7 billion in 2021, +2% from 2019) is coming back to India via a new franchising agreement with Reliance Retail. Headquartered in Mumbai, Reliance is India’s largest...

8 July 2022

H&M and Inditex reduce their exposure in China

…The Swedish retailer H&M (turnover of US$5.36 billion in Q2 2022, up by 12% in local currency) has discreetly closed its largest store in Mainland China on 24 June 2022.

8 July 2022

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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

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Via a presidential decree on September 17, Vladimir Putin placed the Russian subsidiaries of Auchan, Leroy Merlin (now Lemana Pro), Nestlé and logistics provider FM Logistic under temporary...

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