Sophie Baqué
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Electronic labels: Hanshow accelerates breakthrough and signs with a leading British retailer
While the leader in electronic labels, Vusion exceeded €1.47 billion in revenue in 2025, rival Hanshow is stepping up a global offensive, winning a strategic account in the U.K. and a new POC for...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
27 February 2026
BNPL: Between healthcare and retail, Scalapay accelerates a P.O.S. offensive with two major signings
Building on a strong foothold in fashion, Scalapay is strengthening in-store penetration targeting players in the healthcare sector. According to our information, the Italian BNPL unicorn has...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
25 February 2026
Aroma-Zone and Najar reveal the behind-the-scenes of a strategic partnership
As the adoption of AI results in increasing cost volatility for companies, mind Retail spoke in Monaco with Christelle Glaszer, Manager of Indirect Purchases at Aroma-Zone natural beauty retailer...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
13 March 2026
Klépierre, URW, Carmila: in 2025, retail media and services accounted for nearly 10% of net rental income
Published on February 12 and 19, annual financial results of the three major European property companies show that Klépierre, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, and Carmila are no longer singing from the...
- Retail
- Property and investors
- Analysis
24 February 2026
Latest articles by Sophie Baqué
JD.com could invest €2.4 billion to boost delivery capacity in the U.K.
In the U.K., delivery and locker company Evri (75% owned by Advent and 25% by Germany’s Otto) may have found a new owner in JD.com. Other interested parties include Poland’s InPost...
- Retail
- News brief
5 July 2024
[mind Retail Exclusive] Columbus to launch a supermarket offer in Canada in Costco and Metro
With sales of €113 million in 2023, i.e., 74% of parent company Wagram Food Service revenue, French coffee shop retailer Colombus&Co is continuing a shift into supermarkets...
5 July 2024
In Poland, convenient stores giant Zabka targets US$8 billion valuation for I.P.O.
Luxembourg-based investment fund CVC Capital Partners Plc plans to float Zabka, Poland’s leading convenience store retailer, on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in September 2024. With 10,000...
- Retail
- News brief
4 July 2024
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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
2 July 2024
[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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
27 June 2024
[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...
- Retail
- Retail tech
- Analysis
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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
27 June 2024
[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...
- Retail
- Retail tech
- Analysis
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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
25 June 2024
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...
- Retail
- Retail tech
- News
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...
21 June 2024
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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
20 June 2024
What you absolutely must read this week
The essential content of the week selected by the editorial team.
Agentic commerce : After Stripe, Mirakl partners with JPMorgan Payments
On March 10, 2026, Mirakl and JPMorgan Payments (JPMP) unveiled a partnership to deploy agentic commerce by combining the Mirakl Nexus agentic orchestration platform with the U.S. bank’s...
- Retail
- Retail tech
- News
16 March 2026
Aroma-Zone and Najar reveal the behind-the-scenes of a strategic partnership
As the adoption of AI results in increasing cost volatility for companies, mind Retail spoke in Monaco with Christelle Glaszer, Manager of Indirect Purchases at Aroma-Zone natural beauty retailer...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
13 March 2026
Online authentification : Prelude expands a “message free” solution globally
A competitor to Twilio, Vonage and Plivo, the French startup Prelude, which has 75 retail clients, is actively deploying Prelude Zero, an authentication method that requires no message delivery...
- Retail
- Retail tech
- Analysis
13 March 2026
Social media & age verification: Tech breaks the glass ceiling of precision
As an array of international governments restrict social networks access for teenagers under 15 or 16, new facial recognition technologies from Yoti, Persona and k-ID are making progress in...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
13 March 2026
Most viewed articles of the month on mind Retail
What readers clicked on the most last month.
What readers clicked on the most last month.
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Italy seizes €27.4 million from CEVA Logistics for fraud and undeclared labour
On March 3, 2026, Italian tax authorities announced the seizure of €27.4 million from two Italian subsidiaries of French supply chain specialist CEVA Logistics, itself a subsidiary of the...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
5 March 2026
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Conflicts in the Middle East: what impact on the supply chain and European retail?
With US and Israeli strikes on Iran triggering a major crisis on February 28, 2026, retailers already have to face the closure of strategic trade routes, rising freight costs and import...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
5 March 2026
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Following a complaint from the FTC, Walmart agrees to pay US$100 million to Spark delivery drivers
On February 26, 2026, Walmart (2025 revenue: US$713.2 billion, up by 5.1% at constant rates) agreed to pay US$100 million in response to allegations of misleading compensation to delivery drivers...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
4 March 2026
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Social media & age verification: Tech breaks the glass ceiling of precision
As an array of international governments restrict social networks access for teenagers under 15 or 16, new facial recognition technologies from Yoti, Persona and k-ID are making progress in...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
13 March 2026
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Faced with sluggish demand, The Home Depot and Lowe’s cut 1,400 jobs and reaffirm a B2B focus
In the United States, with the home improvement and D.I.Y. market under pressure, retail leaders are reorganising. Home Depot and Lowe's, respectively No. 1 and No. 2 in the market, announced...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
25 February 2026
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Search AI : in the retail sector, 25% of AI queries are transactional
For mind Retail, online SEO specialist Ahrefs analysed retail queries on AI search engines. The goal was to measure the proportion of transactional prompts compared to informational ones. The...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- Analysis
2 March 2026