Sophie Baqué

The point-of-sale advertising specialist In-Store Media is working on a new format for in-store advertising. Aimed at supermarkets as well as D.I.Y. and beauty stores, it is designed to increase...

Autonomous store technology specialist Sensei, created in the wake of Amazon Go, is about to announce a Series A funding round (a round involving an investment fund, Editor’s note) mind...

In the U.S.A., retailers are reviewing their self-checkout practices. Here's a look at the measures recently introduced by Target, Walmart, Dollar General and Five Below to counter the problem of...

On May 7, 2024, Amazon announced a major investment into AWS. Following Microsoft, which last week unveiled a US$4 billion investment in cloud computing and AI infrastructures in Malaysia and...

After announcing the closure of the health center business, Walmart is investing in a major overhaul of private labels. It aims to enhance loyalty of high-income households, in order to compensate...

Despite an 8.4% decline of the U.S. furniture market in 2023, Wayfair‘s annual sales remained stable in the U.S. domestic market, growing by 0.2% to US$10.4 billion. The DNVB, whose market...

On February 28, at EuroCIS, Leroy Merlin and Hanshow received the Reta Awards 2024 for best in-store retail solution and best supplier respectively. mind Retail reports on the deployment of...

For the first time in 15 years, Lithuanian second-hand platform Vinted became profitable in 2023. This is due to the spread of the Vinted Go lockers, whose footprint soared by 230% in 6 months in...

L-Catterton Management (US$35 billion in assets under management, including A.P.C., Ganni, Birkenstock…) announced on April 26, 2024, that it was taking a majority stake in Kiko Milano...

In 2023, according to OC&C, staff turnover reached 56% for specialty retailers and 69% in food, with significant differences between store types and age groups. But at Ingka Group, HR team...

On April 17, 2024, department store chain Myer (sales of US$2.2 billion in the year to end-July 2023, up by 12.5%, via 56 stores) presented the results of rationalisation. Launched in 2019 by...

To optimize maximum capacity of lockers, Mondial Relay (a subsidiary of Polish Group Inpost) relies on the app, launched in Poland and also in France in October 2022. “Downloading our app...