Sophie Baqué
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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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Francois Guilluy, Maty : “Our customers can pay with the PayWish app, it’s a small revolution”
Enabling customers to pay quickly and simply, without investing in new Eftpos terminals, while controlling the technical and financial risks. These are the objectives of the jeweller Maty, which...
- Retail
- News
12 July 2022
How to decarbonise retail?
While the regulatory context has changed significantly over the past year (Fashion Act in the USA, AGEC law in France), the issue of fossil fuels combined with recent inflation (energy, raw...
- Retail
- Essentials
9 June 2022
Deliveroo and Hero: arm wrestle over delivery workers’ pay in the Emirates
//In the UAE, Talabat’s delivery drivers (a subsidiary of the German group Delivery Hero) have refused, for the second time in a month, to deliver meals in the city of Dubai. They are...
- Retail
- News brief
20 May 2022
Ikea allocates €3 billion for digital stores
With online sales accounting for 30% of business, the Ingka Group is investing heavily to move stores to omnichannel. The automated click & collect pilot in Paris may serve as an inspiration...
- Retail
- News
10 May 2022
Eric Dangreaux, Paysurf: “Facilitate and secure payment on digital marketplaces”
Behind the success of digital marketplaces lies a precise mechanism adroit at receiving, dividing and transferring funds authorised by customers. This payment element is deployed by integrated...
- Retail
- News
1 April 2022
Shopee to close Indian operations
Amid a backdrop of global uncertainties, the Singaporean Sea Group (turnover of US$10 billion in 2021, with 51% from e-commerce and 43% from gaming) closed Shopee India, its e-commerce...
29 March 2022
Walmart targets US$100 billion in online sales by 2022
Walmart, the world's leading retailer, published annual financial results and notes that 2020 and 2021 have been a complex year. Their results show a sustained turnover growth and large expansion...
- Retail
- News
23 February 2022
Change management and franchising. Fitness Park relies on Yoobic
Fitness Park (turnover of €200 million in 2019, 250 sports clubs in France, Spain and Portugal) plans to open 50 new stores this year, including 15 in Spain.
- Retail
- News brief
22 February 2022
Lise Charmel : “Any cyber risk is even greater today because there is no longer full insurance cover”
Lingerie retailer Lise Charmel, highly active in Russia and Eastern Europe, reported a massive cyberattack two years ago. For the company, whose annual turnover reached €60 million in 2018 as the...
- Retail
- News
18 February 2022
Watsons opens website and a first store in Qatar
Hong Kong-based cosmetics retailer Watsons is making inroads in Qatar with a website and a first store located in Doha Festival City. With a 300 sqm sales area, it offers 200 brands of beauty...
- Retail
- News brief
7 February 2022
George Yates, Back Market : “In 16 markets, our main challenge is to ensure that supply keeps pace with demand”
Only six months after previous fundraising, the second-hand marketplace Back Market (specialising in electrical products), raised €450 million and reached a valuation of €5.1 billion. George...
- Retail
- Analysis
31 January 2022
Wang Ning, Chinese toy specialist, lands in London with Pop Mart
Aged 35, Mr. Wang Ning made his fortune with an improbable bet: selling toys (figurines and dolls) in surprise bags. In 2020, his company Pop Mart recorded a turnover of US$382 million, up by 49%...
- Retail
- News brief
27 January 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...
- 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