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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
Ingenico partners with Splitit to offer BNPL in-store
Eager to offer customers more flexible payment options, Ingenico signed an agreement with Splitit, the white label platform specialized in fractional payment, on 1 February, 2023. This partnership...
- Retail
- News brief
6 February 2023
The Home Depot launches new app for in-store salespeople
In the US, The Home Depot (9-month 2022 sales: US$121.6 billion, up 5.3%) has launched an application, designed in-house, to help sales people prioritise tasks. Named Sidekick and powered by...
6 February 2023
China. Retail market at a standstill and GDP at lowest level since 1976
Last year, retail sales fell in China in parallel with a sharp slowdown in G.D.P. This is reflected in the Q4 results of H&M, LVMH and Estée Lauder, despite the lifting of Covid-19...
- Retail
- News
3 February 2023
AI : Google launches new tool to improve stock availability for grocery stores
With a new product that combines AI and data, Google wants to make a breakthrough in stock and shelf management, based on a computer vision system. A way to get closer to the territory of players...
- Retail
- News
2 February 2023
In search of cash, Natura & Co may sell its Aesop nugget
Under the leadership of new C.E.O. Fabio Barbosa, appointed last June after the resignation of Roberto Marques, the international beauty group Natura & Co is considering selling all or part of...
- Retail
- News
2 February 2023
Winnie Park, Forever 21: “In terms of sustainability, GenZ favours authenticity”
The C.E.O. of Forever 21 was the guest at the latest FrenchFounders meeting in New York. After working at Levi Strauss and LVMH (DFS), and tasked with restructuring the PaperSource stationery...
- Retail
- News
31 January 2023
Action ends the year with sales up 30%
Dutch discounter Action ended 2022 with a net turnover of €8.9 billion, up 30.8% in one year. It operates 2,263 stores in 10 European countries. France is the largest market, accounting...
- Retail
- News brief
30 January 2023
Yext: How Calzedonia generates sales conversion and “drive to store” thanks to Google queries
With 5,000 stores in 55 countries in the end of 2022, optimizing its visibility on digital platforms is a strategic challenge for the Calzedonia Group. In an exclusive talk with mind Retail...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
27 January 2023
NRF : the most striking in-store innovations seen in New York
While New York retail has not regained the pre-Covid momentum, with vacancy and footfall rates below 2019 levels, mind Retail reports that in-store experience remains the priority for many...
- Retail
- News
24 January 2023
NRF 2023: Sustainability start-ups in New York
The NRF Big Show was full of new products and services. We offer a selection including IT solutions to reduce waste and the management of SLEDs in the food industry with Afresh and CodaBene. These...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
23 January 2023
NRF 2023: Ikea U.S.A., Levi’s and L’Oréal present sustainable roadmaps
At the NRF conference, sustainability-focused technology solutions took a back seat to automation and AI. However, Ikea, Levi's and L'Oréal stood out with interesting case studies and roadmaps.
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
21 January 2023
Cegid wants to enhance sellers’ experience
Task management planning for vendors, integration within the Cegid Retail ERP software by June 2023 and a possible acquisition of clienteling software. With the Cegid Retail Store Excellence...
- Retail
- News
20 January 2023
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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
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