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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
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South Korean group Lotte conquers Vietnam
Having withdrawn from the Chinese market, South Korean conglomerate Lotte is increasing investments in Vietnam, like other rivals. On September 23rd, the mixed-use complex, Lotte Mall West Lake...
- Retail
- News brief
16 October 2023
Klarna claims 100 million European customers
Amid a backdrop of tighter regulation for BNPL with a revision of the European Credit Directive, online payment and BNPL solution provider Klarna reported a 14% increase in business volume in...
- Retail
- News brief
13 October 2023
Furniture and bulky goods: new initiatives for re-use
While second-hand digital platforms made their mark in the fashion sector (Vinted accounted for 12.6% of the volume of clothing purchased in France in H1 2023), furniture retailers, with their...
- Retail
- Analysis
5 October 2023
China’s Temu (Pinduoduo) accused of espionage
According to the American research company Grizzly Research, Temu, a subsidiary of PDD Holdings (capitalisation: US$130 billion), contains spyware. “It has all the characteristics of the...
4 October 2023
India: Reliance Retail steps up fund-raising ahead of possible IPO
While Amazon and Walmart are stepping up investments in India, Reliance Retail Ventures (2022 sales of US$31.7 billion, net margin of 3.5% of sales) raised US$250 million from the New-York based...
- Retail
- News brief
3 October 2023
Bain, GIC: In the face of US-China geopolitical tensions, Vietnam is attracting investors
According to Reuters, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC is in the running to acquire up to a 20% stake in Bach Hoa Xanh supermarkets (sales of US$558 million, up 7% in H1 2023 via 1,700...
- Retail
- News brief
3 October 2023
Tony Sciarrotta, Reverse Logistics Association : “Recycling is always the worst option in terms of value creation”
At a time when the NRF has just acquired the Reverse Logistics Association (RLA), Mind Retail interviewed the Executive Director, Tony Sciarrotta. Between Artificial Intelligence, auctions...
- Retail
- Analysis
29 September 2023
TikTok: Indonesia is about to ban commerce on social networks
Indonesia, the most populated country in South-East Asia (270 million inhabitants), is taking action to limit the risk of the major social networks, such as TikTok, becoming a monopoly. At a...
27 September 2023
[info mind Retail] A third of Shein’s suppliers will not be audited in 2023
With the results of the French DGCCRF investigation expected this Autumn, and the U.S. SEC continuing a survey regarding allegations of forced labor, Shein provided an update on its industrial...
- Retail
- info-mind
- Retailer and e-commerce
26 September 2023
Generative AI: Amazon to invest up to US$4 billion in Anthropic
The digital cloud giants are not slowing investments in generative AI, which needs massive computing power to function properly. Following Google and a US$300 million investment in Anthropic in...
26 September 2023
Children’s data: TikTok fined US$ 367 million in Ireland
While the European DSA is forcing the platform to be more transparent and protect privacy, the Irish regulator has just punished TikTok for misuse of children's data.
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
26 September 2023
Pierre Fougeat, Lugh (Casino Group): “All platforms combined, €2.5 million of our stablecoin Lugh are in circulation”
Pierre Fougeat, COO of Lugh Financial Services, a subsidiary of Casino Group, presents the Euro stablecoin Lugh. He details the strategy behind this new business.
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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...
- 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
Cyberattack: Muji, Loft and Sogo & Seibu e-commerce sites down in Japan
Since October 19, Japanese logistics company Askul (2024 revenue: 3.3 billion dollars, up by 2% year-on-year) has been the victim of a cyberattack, preventing it from managing e-commerce orders...
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...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
23 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