Sophie Baqué

On February 25, Pop Mart (sales of US$242 million in H1 2022 via 400 stores, including 375 in China) opened a first permanent store in continental Europe. Covering 178 sqm GLA, it is in the Forum...

URW's shopping centres are rolling out omnichannel features. For the inauguration of a mutualised "click & collect" service in the Forum des Halles mall in Paris, announced in June in mind...

As the hub of the South East Asia region, Singapore is a market where Decathlon is testing many innovations, including cashless, Scan & Go, automated in-store picking that prepares 600 orders...

With a low price positioning, Walmart has managed to accelerate growth in 2022. This policy has nevertheless cost profitability. Note: the group has generated US$2.7 billion in advertising...

According to mind Retail's information, the Galeries Lafayette group will soon reopen a store on Haussmann Boulevard dedicated to Asian customers and tax-free shopping. At the same time the firm...

The U.S. company is one of the first to reveal integration of GPT 3, the GPT Chat language model, into its natural language chatbot. According to our information, another project is to have a...

5-year warranty on household appliances or telephony, on optical and audio prostheses, "buy back" programmes in fashion, insurance on skis at Decathlon, buyers' warranty on Vinted. Affinity...

As predicted by the 18,000 layoffs announced last month, Amazon's growth slowed in 2022. While turnover grew by 13% year-on-year, online sales continued to decline and the group's operating profit...

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...

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...

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...

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...