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Sélim Chidiac (L’azurde): “Online, 20% of customers use the Tabby split payment solution”

Sélim Chidiac, C.E.O. of the L'azurde jewellery group, which has historically focused on wholesale, presents his strategic directions for increasing direct distribution. This includes deployment...

28 November 2022

ManoMano launches a Black Friday for professional clients

The D.I.Y. marketplace ManoMano launched Prodays, a promotional event for professional customers to run from 22nd to 28th November, 2022.

25 November 2022

Robotic manufacturing: denim specialist Unspun opens in Hong Kong

Unspun, the American brand of "zero waste" jeans based on a silhouette scanning technology and a 3D weaving technique, opens its first physical store in Asia.

25 November 2022

U.S.A.: Retailers’ stocks levels continued to rise in Q3 2022

Eager to attract Black Friday shoppers and streamline older inventories, U.S. retailers are competing via promotional pressure. In the U.S., inventories of the S&P 500 companies reached...

25 November 2022

To compete with Cdiscount, Mirakl launches a retail media offer

Mirakl, the software publisher which specializes in marketplaces with clients such as Boots and Leroy Merlin, will launch in April 2023 an e-retail media solution. The Mirakl Ads...

21 November 2022

Kiabi to open soon 70 corners in Auchan hypermarkets

Kiabi unveiled their strategic roadmap for 2023. This includes expanding products for children and babies, launching the new marketplace in Spain and Italy and massively rolling out “corners” at...

21 November 2022

Etam adopts an innovative technology to dye fabrics on demand

The lingerie retailer Etam (whose brands include Undiz and Etam, with 85% of the range from Asia and 15% from Europe) aims for a more reactive supply chain. The underwear retailer takes...

18 November 2022

Confidential. Carrefour hypermarket offer soon available on Uber Eats

After having successfully regained market share and customers for physical stores, Carrefour is investing with Uber Eats to rebuild e-commerce.

17 November 2022

Pre-orders, on-demand manufacturing, planning are all innovations in a supply chain

Eco-responsibility, control of unsold goods and cautious investment are all part of a supply chain as the linchpin of retail. However, as the core of issues includes rising costs, geopolitical...

9 November 2022

[Amazon Results] At nearly US$10 billion, advertising outpaces subscriptions for US giant

For the first time, Amazon's advertising revenue exceeded subscriptions revenue in Q3 2022. The services to third-party merchants, the second largest business unit, and AWS remained very dynamic...

4 November 2022

Banyan wants to bridge the first-party data gap between retailers and fintechs

The American company Banyan is developing a platform that enables retailers to feed their purchase data to financial players, in order to enrich services and applications through dedicated...

4 November 2022

Simon Property partners with Alibaba to accelerate live shopping

To strengthen business with Chinese consumers, the U.S. mall owner Simon Property unveiled a groundbreaking partnership with Alibaba, via "live shopping" sessions. The launch is scheduled for...

3 November 2022

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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...

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...

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...

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