Digital in-store and retail media

Since November 17, Leroy Merlin has faced controversy after a report from Sleeping Giants, an activist group against online hate speech. The organisation alerted the Adeo group retailer (GMV 2024...

21 November 2025

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

Retail Media: Loblaw aims to accelerate in-store with Stratacache

During Advertising Week in New York, the Canadian food retailer Loblaw (2024 turnover: 44.8 billion dollars, up by 2.5% year-on-year) announced on October 8, that it would strengthen a network of...

20 October 2025

French start-up Gaudier pivots toward in-store customer data

Incubated within the LVMH Lab and originally focused on developing sampling machines and sensors for the beauty industry, Gaudier is now making a strategic shift toward in-store customer data...

7 October 2025

Retail media: MediaMarktSaturn launches offsite with Unlimitail in five countries

MediamarktSaturn, Europe's largest home electrical retailer is joining forces with Unlimitail to monetise data offsite. In Q2, marketplace GMV jumped 90% thanks to strong demand and international...

30 September 2025

[mind Info] Cegid signs 3 new retailers and accelerates voice AI development

Buoyed by strong sales momentum, Cegid revealed to mind Retail the identities of three new retail clients and the features of Cegid Pulse, a “super app” for sales assistants expected in 2026. By...

22 September 2025

Valiuz and Infinity Advertising formalise alliance

The retail media agencies of the Mulliez Family Association (AFM, owner of Auchan Retail) and the Mousquetaires Group (Intermarché) announced the finalisation of a merger, which will be...

15 September 2025

UK : Morrisons and Waitrose are trialling connected trolleys to reduce shoplifting

Against a backdrop of rising shoplifting across Europe, Morrisons and Waitrose are trialling connected shopping trolleys with Instacart and Shopic. The aim of this digitalisation of a customer...

15 September 2025

Solutys expands RFID scope and takes over Rayonnance and Nedap France

A week after the Buylo start-up's funding round, the RFID market has seen a second announcement. In a move towards consolidation, Solutys Group, a traceability solutions integrator, announced a...

8 September 2025

[Mind Retail info] Ouidrop rolls out drive-through robotics at E.Leclerc and prepares for Series A

Mind Retail learned the French start-up, which specialises in robotics technology for grocery drive-throughs, has signed new deals with E.Leclerc supermarkets. The rapidly growing start-up, whose...

26 August 2025

Augmodo raises US$37.5 million to transform employees into smart sensors

On July 10, 2025, US start-up Augmodo raised 37.5 million dollars in a Series A round led by TQ Ventures. Specialising in wearable technology for store employees, Augmodo’s badge uses...

5 August 2025

Carrefour and Cooperative U form European buying alliance and eye retail media deal

Carrefour and Cooperative U officially announced on July 7 the launch of Concordis, a joint European purchasing alliance. Based in Brussels, the structure will begin operating for the 2026 trade...

8 July 2025

[mind Retail Exclusive] Tanguy Pincemin begins a new chapter in his career

Tanguy Pincemin has left Dunnhumby, according to Mind Retail. He joined the British customer data platform specialist in October 2017, where he served as EMEA Media Director, then Sales Director...

3 July 2025

Retail media: why OBI is replacing PromoteIQ with California-based Topsort

To operate a 360° retail media business, Germany's second-largest D.I.Y. retailer has selected San Francisco-based adserver Topsort. In addition to onsite retail media, Topsort will also manage...

2 July 2025

With Scandit, Walmart aims to take in-store assistance to the next level

Intelligent software provider Scandit has just announced a renewal of a strategic partnership with Walmart in the USA. Samuel Mueller, C.E.O. of the Swiss unicorn, talked to mind Retail about the...

26 June 2025

Stand-alone checkout systems: 365 Retail Markets acquires Cantaloupe for US$884 million

In the U.S.A., Cantaloupe (2024 revenue: US$268.8 million, up by 10.2%), a manufacturer of self-checkout systems competing with Diebold Nixdorf, among others, has been acquired by competitor 365...

20 June 2025

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Marketplaces: Stockly enters Switzerland with MediaMarkt, Decathlon, Galaxus and Manor

After a loss-making but high-growth year in 2025, the stock-pooling start-up for marketplaces signed agreements with 4 Swiss players, mind Retail learned. By taking on one of Europe’s most...

30 January 2026

Save launches an e-commerce site to support a shift towards sales

Having just reached break-even, the French subsidiary of refurbished specialist Save intends to go beyond an historical model of repair to develop sales of accessories and refurbished products...

23 January 2026

Shoptimus AI scales up in grocery smart shopping lists and prepares for a new funding round

After securing a strategic partnership with Spanish grocer Bon Preu, retail tech firm Shoptimus AI—first spotted by Carrefour—is accelerating a rollout. By leveraging AI agents to automate grocery...

11 January 2026

Agentic AI: Hymalaia attracts retailers and announces imminent fundraising

According to our sources, the young start-up Hymalaia is continuing development in retail with 4 new retailers currently in POC and an imminent fundraising. We examine the details.

16 December 2025

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11 January 2026

Global retail tech investment rose by 7.4% in 2025

In 2025, venture capital continued to flow into commerce technologies. With 27.5 billion dollars invested in retail tech, the average deal size increased while the number of transactions declined.

23 January 2026

With Walmart, Ulta Beauty, Zalando and Carrefour, Google launches an agentic commerce protocol

Following the launch of payments in Copilot, Google is preparing to join OpenAI and Microsoft, but with a more integrated version focused on its own payment method, Google Pay. These moves...

13 January 2026

2026 Trends – Retail media, between omnichannel reach, creativity and measurement

(Trends, 6/6) After an exceptional 2024 driven by the Olympic Games, retail media entered a phase of maturity and slowing business last year. It nonetheless remains extremely dynamic, fuelled by...

28 January 2026

2026 Trends – Chatbots, WhatsApp, social networks: don’t miss out on conversation

(Trends 2/6) After a cautious observation phase by retailers and some high-profile hallucination issues, 2025 was a turning point operationally for chatbots and conversational tools. Positioned...

13 January 2026

2026 Trends – How far should retailers open the door to AI Search engines ?

(Trends 1/6) With data visibility, recommendations, transactions on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, LLMs are establishing themselves as new entry points for e-commerce. As search, comparison and...

8 January 2026