Most read articles by Sophie Baqué
AI search engines: how advertising is entering the conversation
While many retailers spend 80% of their acquisition budget on Google Shopping, monetisation tests are accelerating on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. How much of the budget will they absorb...
Antoine Jouteau, Leboncoin : “We are launching our first warranty offer for multimedia products”
As Leboncoin prepares to celebrate a 20th anniversary in 2026, mind Retail interviewed Antoine Jouteau, the outgoing Chief Executive Officer. As Jacob Aqraou, Executive Chairman of the Board of...
Nacera Bekhat, CNIL: “Walking through a store aisle does not mean I have consented to data processing”
Several vendors, like Veesion and Alfred Eyes, provide smart camera technologies aimed at capturing customer data throughout the store to prevent theft. How do these systems fit with GDPR? Some...
Cosmetics: How start-up Aiso multiplied by 5 the visibility of U.S. brand Particle on ChatGPT
Since March 2025, Israeli start-up Aiso has been working with the U.S. online brand Particle, a specialist in men’s cosmetics, to strengthen visibility on ChatGPT. In 6 months, impressions have...
13 October 2025
Latest articles by Sophie Baqué
In receivership, leaflet specialist Milee will lose over 5,000 jobs
Amid a paper leaflet market that halved in 4 years in France, several companies seem to be on the verge of collapse. As Mediapost ceased distribution, rival Adrexo (Milee) could file for...
[mind Retail Day] How AI has become a performance lever for physical stores
How can omnichannel retailers make the most of AI technologies, whether generative or not? What results can they expect? The mind Retail Day, held in Paris on June 19, offered an opportunity to...
[Cannes Lions] Retail media: professional measurement is a key to scale-up
While the retail media sector is maturing, the question of scaling up was a common theme at Cannes Lions. On the one hand, the multiplication of retail media networks and the growth of the...
27 June 2024
[mind Retail Day] Six fashion, home and B2B retailers facing circularities’ challenges
At the mind Retail Day on June 19, Béatrice Brandt (Le Jacquard Français), Loic Gauchet (5ASEC Business), Anne-Laure Grand (Decathlon Pro), Marie Kennel (Christofle), Damien Pellé (SMCP) and Julia...
[mind Retail Day] Leveraging retail media on marketplaces: all the takeaways
Retail media, which is almost mature in grocery and to a lesser extent at electronics retailers, is now taking off in non-food marketplaces. How do they scale up? What KPIs and margin levels can...
26 June 2024
Julie Hamadouche Bottino, Ba&sh: “On each garment, a label details the CO2 generated, energy consumed and freshwater pollution”
Supported by Fairly Made in terms of traceability and involved in a relocation program, Ba&sh has been publishing a voluntary CSR report for 3 years and has just been certified B-Corp. Since...
Old Navy and Rent the Runway adapt collections in response to a rush on anti-diabetic drugs
In the U.S.A., Rent the Runway, Amarra and Old Navy are all seeing an unprecedented shift towards smaller sizes. The cause is often new anti-obesity treatments, popularised on TikTok, which are...
24 June 2024
[mind Retail Exclusive] Decathlon launches rental for business customers
Against the backdrop of a slowdown in the core B2C business, particularly in the digital space, Decathlon detailed a shift towards professional customers at mind Retail Day. Over the next 2 years...
By focusing e-commerce in stores, Target reduces inventory by US$2 billion
After experiencing inventory difficulties following the pandemic, Target reviewed its strategy, particularly its e-commerce roadmap. Here is a look at the operating results of the world's 5th...
Galeries Lafayette returns to 2019 sales levels
Galeries Lafayette celebrates a 130th anniversary this year. After returning to pre-Covid sales levels, the department store chain is forecasting revenue of €3.85 billion this year. Despite an...
17 June 2024
Adeo measures omnichannel performance of e-retail media campaigns
Omnichannel performance measurement, in-store advertising activation... After launching its Web advertising activity a year ago, Adeo DIY retailer is moving towards an omnichannel model. At the...
OneStock raises US$72 million to boost connectivity
On May 21, 2024, US fund Summit Partners (RELEX, Akeneo, Klaviyo, Optimove, Later and Mi9 Retail) announced a US$72 million investment in French OMS provider OneStock (100 clients including Yves...
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Shoprite adopts Yoobic solution for 3,600 stores and 160,000 employees
As announced in April in mind Retail, the African grocery retailer Shoprite has confirmed the rollout of the Yoobic application to optimise staff task management and anomaly detection in stores...
29 October 2025
Faced with debt and declining sales, Fossil files for bankruptcy
Competition from Apple and Samsung in the smartwatch segment, collapsing sales, customs tariffs… Cornered with a debt of US$179 million, Fossil has filed several bankruptcy petitions in the U.S.A...
29 October 2025
EU: Omnibus bill stalled in Parliament
On October 22, MEPs rejected by a narrow majority the negotiating mandate that would have allowed trilogue negotiations to begin on the omnibus directive watering down the CSRD and duty of care...
Verizon, Starbucks, DoorDash and Grubhub impacted by AWS outage
On October 20, 2025, the Amazon Web Services cloud (Amazon Q2 2025 revenue: 168 billion dollars, up by 13.3%) was down for several hours before returning to normal. Numerous websites and...