Retail tech

In mid-November 2025, mind Retail analysed 50 French e-commerce websites using Wappalyzer to identify technologies installed on them. The result was 144 solutions were recorded, installed more...

20 November 2025

Aive extends series A with €4.5 million in debt and announces a new client

Alongside a Series A round of €16.5 million (including €12 million in equity in June and €4.5 million in debt announced on November 15) the start-up Aive has just signed a new client, mind Retail...

19 November 2025

Payments: Wallets accelerate in a fragmented market

As retailers seek to streamline shopping journeys, payment fluidity is becoming a key conversion driver. Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, PayPal: wallets enable retailers to reduce delays and...

18 November 2025

Jeff Bezos takes the helm of AI start-up project Prometheus

At a time when Michael Burry, the American investor known for predicting the subprime crisis, is forecasting a burst of the speculative bubble around AI, former Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos is now...

18 November 2025

Alma to launch a payment app in France

The BNPL specialist Alma (2024 GMV: €2 billion) will launch “by the end of the year a mobile app for consumers, enabling them to pay in instalments with Alma at all merchants, not only our...

18 November 2025

Germany: Lidl and Decathlon roll out Wero for their e-commerce

Wero, the digital wallet developed under the European EPI initiative, is accelerating deployment, recently signed with 3 major German retail players, mind Retail learned.

17 November 2025

BNPL: in a mature market, Alma, Klarna, Scalapay, Younited and Oney seek new growth levers

As BNPL reached maturity in France and Europe and commonplace online, players in the sector are accelerating their transformation. Longer instalments, new verticals, extended services and...

14 November 2025

USA: Visa and Mastercard ease up on interchange fees

Visa and Mastercard reached a historic agreement with US retailers to reduce fees associated with credit cards. This opens an unprecedented breach, while the two giants are suspected of abusing a...

12 November 2025

How RougeGorge brings weather data into CRM strategy

After 4 years of collaboration on personalised emails the lingerie retailer RougeGorge is accelerating with retail tech partner Reelevant, which is expanding within AFM thanks to recent contracts...

10 November 2025

In a strategic shift towards hardware, Mollie launches payment terminal in France and Italy

Like Adyen and Shopify, the payment services provider Mollie, historically specialised in online payment, aims to integrate itself across the entire payment value chain. According to Adrien...

7 November 2025

Bastien Borget (Eden Park): “In 2026, we will launch mobile checkout in-store with Adyen”

At Eden Park, payment has become a strategic lever serving unified commerce. Currently migrating the PoS to Shopify, the French retailer shared with mind Retail their insights on the adoption of...

5 November 2025

Personalisation: Why Wallapop second-hand marketplace chose AlbatrossAI

Spain’s equivalent of Leboncoin, Wallapop, relies on the young start-up AlbatrossAI to personalise in real time how a catalogue is displayed on the app. At the core of this recommendation and...

5 November 2025

With Phenix, Pierre Fabre revalued 7.7 million unsold items in 4 years

Since 2021, Phenix has been responsible for revaluing unsold cosmetic products from the pharmaceutical group Pierre Fabre. Francis Lemontey, CSR Manager at Pierre Fabre, looks back on this...

4 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

Cyberattack: Muji, Loft and Sogo & Seibu e-commerce sites down in Japan

Since October 19, Japanese logistics company Askul (2024 revenue: 3.3 billion dollars, up by 2% year-on-year) has been the victim of a cyberattack, preventing it from managing e-commerce orders...

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: US$168 billion, up by 13.3%) was down for several hours before returning to normal. Numerous websites and applications...

23 October 2025

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Refurbished smartphones: why Largo relies on Speeral automation

The start-up founded by the duo behind Teester and Skeepers is accelerating automation of second-hand product flows. The strategy is to use AI to direct products to high-traffic marketplaces such...

9 December 2025

Leroy Merlin and Aroma‑Zone launch in‑store analytics pilots with XXII

French retail tech XXII, which aims to become the Google Analytics and Contentsquare of physical stores, has already signed with 15 retailers and shopping centres, mind Retail learned. A year...

5 December 2025

Already in POC, Dialog’s conversational agent shows up in the search bar

Buoyed by a €3.8 million seed round closed in mid‑November 2025, French start‑up Dialog, specialised in AI‑based conversational e‑commerce, is accelerating. Initially placed on product pages, this...

4 December 2025

E‑commerce: How Hive customises free‑delivery thresholds using customer data

With 500 e‑merchant clients, including Embryolisse, Hindbag, Airup, Hygée or Jacks Beauty Line, German logistics provider Hive is capitalising on data to raise e‑commerce conversion via a finely...

2 December 2025

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Online Advertising: Leroy Merlin and Auchan at the heart of a political controversy

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

Payments and e-commerce : which retail tech solutions dominate French websites?

In mid-November 2025, mind Retail analysed 50 French e-commerce websites using Wappalyzer to identify technologies installed on them. The result was 144 solutions were recorded, installed more...

20 November 2025

Payment: a lever for retail innovation

This month, our editorial team highlights how innovation is taking shape around payment. This key stage, enabling turnover to be collected by retailers, is at the heart of numerous pilots and...

28 November 2025

Leroy Merlin and Aroma‑Zone launch in‑store analytics pilots with XXII

French retail tech XXII, which aims to become the Google Analytics and Contentsquare of physical stores, has already signed with 15 retailers and shopping centres, mind Retail learned. A year...

5 December 2025

Adobe bets on GEO with the US$1.9 billion acquisition of Semrush

On November 19 the technology leader Adobe (2024 revenue: US$21.5 billion, up by 11% at constant rates) announced the acquisition of SaaS platform Semrush (2024 revenue: US$376.8 million, up by...

21 November 2025

How Maison 123 generated €420,000 on WhatsApp in 5 months

Riding on a reduction in Meta’s commercial policy, Wax start‑up specialised in WhatsApp engagement, is gaining ground, capitalising on messaging as a customer acquisition and retention channel in...

3 December 2025