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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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
23 October 2025
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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
13 October 2025
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...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- Analysis
7 October 2025
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...
- Retail
- Retail tech
- News
13 October 2025
Latest articles by Sophie Baqué
[mind Retail Exclusive] Carrefour disengages from Africa
According to our sources, Carrefour is progressively withdrawing from Africa, which began in 2013 with the creation of a joint venture between CFAO (55%) and itself (45%). In...
- Retail
- info-mind
- Retailer and e-commerce
8 March 2024
Retail tech: What are the best-performing vendor technologies?
As retailers struggle to retain staff amidst more volatile demands from consumers, tech platforms refining vendor businesses are innovating in all areas. These include task planning, messaging...
- Retail
- Essentials
7 March 2024
[confidential] Skello relies on Open-Ai to speed up the creation of sales schedules
From March onwards, Skello, which specialises in scheduling tools for in-store team members, will be integrating a generative AI function. After launching quarter-hourly planning in the summer of...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
7 March 2024
After Kiabi, Primark prepares to enter India
Primark and Kiabi, two European giants in the low-price fashion sector, are looking to expand into the Indian fashion market. mind Retail takes a look at their respective strategies.
- Retail
- News
7 March 2024
Regulatory : Vietnam wants to revitalise shopping streets
Five years after the creation of the CPTPP trade agreement with the U.K., Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Mexico and Peru, Vietnam is...
- Retail
- News brief
6 March 2024
Jérémie Levy, Converteo: “Generative AI prices are not easy to read or to budget for: we’re dealing with probabilism”
Converteo, whose almost 50% of revenue comes from the retail, beauty and luxury sectors, supports retailers in collecting, modelling, measuring and activating data. Jérémie Levy, Managing...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
4 March 2024
Travel retail: China wants South-East Asia to become a visa-free zone
China is stepping up the number of agreements with neighboring countries, to relax or even lift visa policies. Since March 1, 2024, citizens of China and Thailand can travel to the other country...
- Retail
- News brief
1 March 2024
USA: Ikea wants to take advantage of falling valuations and acquire more malls
While e-commerce has plateaued at around 25% of sales for the past 2 years, Ingka Group (total sales €47.6 billion in 2023, up by 6.6%) is stepping up property investments. Last week, Cindy...
- Retail
- News brief
1 March 2024
Temu wants to open a digital marketplace to American sellers
The e-commerce platform Temu (a subsidiary of PDD Holdings, Pinduoduo’s parent company), known for low-value products, is expanding considerably. By October 2023, Temu was selling into 47...
27 February 2024
Electronics: Currys to be taken over by China’s JD.com?
After selling off the Greek business in November 2023 and cutting operating costs, Currys PLC (€4.9 billion turnover in 6 months to the end of October 2023) could receive a takeover bid from...
- Retail
- News brief
27 February 2024
Carrefour ends 2023 on a high note and aims to lease-operate 30% of hypermarkets
Carrefour has published a positive balance sheet for 2023, boosted by external growth in Brazil and in Europe. In France, the strategy of switching to franchising and leasing contracts has...
27 February 2024
[mind Retail Exclusive] Gamestop relies on Yoobic to bring generative AI to the heart of stores
E-learning, internal chatbot, after-sales service... Eager to improve operational efficiency, video game retailer Gamestop is the first retailer to have tested Yoobic Neo, a new suite of tools...
- Retail
- info-mind
- Retailer and e-commerce
23 February 2024
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The essential content of the week selected by the editorial team.
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...
- Retail
- Retail tech
- News
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...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
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...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News brief
27 October 2025
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...
27 October 2025
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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...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
29 October 2025
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Lululemon, Ralph Lauren, Gap and Levi’s enter peak season with high stock levels
Faced with rising customs tariffs affecting US imports, several retailers have built up significant inventories. Over a year, the stocks of Gap, Levi’s, Lululemon, Ralph Lauren and Academy Sports...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
27 October 2025
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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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
23 October 2025
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[mind Exclusive] After signing Fusalp and Ysé, Webyn relies on Gemini to boost the performance of e-commerce A/B testing
Awarded on October 13, 2025, in the category of the Customer Relationship Awards, the start-up specialising in e-commerce A/B testing continues to grow. For mind Retail, C.E.O. and Co-Founder...
- Retail
- info-mind
- Retail tech
23 October 2025
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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...
27 October 2025
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France and Italy urge Shein to reassess a business model
While Shein continues to spark controversy through partnerships with Pimkie and BHV department stores (SGM), Italy announced plans to introduce a tax on Asian e-commerce platforms. In France, the...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
13 October 2025