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As the adoption of AI results in increasing cost volatility for companies, mind Retail spoke in Monaco with Christelle Glaszer, Manager of Indirect Purchases at Aroma-Zone natural beauty retailer...

13 March 2026

Regulatory: With 200,000 Digital Product Passports issued, Darty scales up

While the European Commission is set to vote on delegated acts to specify requirements for home appliances, Darty is accelerating a Digital Product Passport (DPP) push by integrating new products...

11 March 2026

AI Search : YouTube citations climb to 40%, Reddit falls to 20%

While Reddit once dominated the sources cited by AIs, YouTube videos are now winning over LLMs. Here's why.

4 March 2026

Belgium: Lidl and Bpost adopt Wero’s payment solution

The news. Following its rollout in Germany at the end of 2025, EPI is launching Wero e-commerce solution in Belgium with first retail partners, including Bpost and Lidl. The service is initially...

3 March 2026

Search AI : in the retail sector, 25% of AI queries are transactional

For mind Retail, online SEO specialist Ahrefs analysed retail queries on AI search engines. The goal was to measure the proportion of transactional prompts compared to informational ones. The...

2 March 2026

Electronic labels: Hanshow accelerates breakthrough and signs with a leading British retailer

While the leader in electronic labels, Vusion exceeded €1.47 billion in revenue in 2025, rival Hanshow is stepping up a global offensive, winning a strategic account in the U.K. and a new POC for...

27 February 2026

WhatsApp, rich SMS, YouTube, TikTok: Focus on the conversational levers that engage the most

Beyond traditional stores and e-commerce sites, retail has shifted to conversational omnichannel, where WhatsApp, RCS, and live shopping are becoming drivers of conversion and lifetime value. At...

27 February 2026

At Walmart, the Sparky chatbot increases an average basket by 35%

While Walmart published annual results on February 19, 2026, the AI chatbot confirms a key role in revenue generation. “Customers using Sparky generate an average basket that is...

25 February 2026

Cyberattack: leak of 37 million customer records at ManoMano

On February 10, 2026, D.I.Y. pure player ManoMano (GMV 2024: 1 billion euros) officially notified customers of a data leak that occurred in January 2026, affecting 37 million customer records...

20 February 2026

AI, advertising, subscriptions, marketplace: how Walmart made e-commerce profitable in 2025

Walmart confirms a strategic shift, with 713 billion dollars in revenue in 2025 and a valuation up 600 billion dollars in 2 years. The group has maintained growth and is accelerating high-margin...

20 February 2026

Faced with a margin crisis, Carrefour focuses on e-commerce and automation with Vusion

On February 18, 2026, Carrefour food retailer (2025 revenue: €84 billion, up by 4.6% at constant rates, net margin halved to €385 million for a net margin ratio at 0.5% of sales due to...

19 February 2026

How far can WhatsApp and RCS take conversion and customer loyalty?

Faced with rising acquisition costs and ROI requirements, WhatsApp and RCS are becoming strategic marketing levers for brands. Between feedback from But, Picard, La Petite Mendigote, Clarins, and...

18 February 2026

Grain de Malice: how live shopping boosts average basket by 67%

On February 12, Grain de Malice received a public award at the first edition of the E-commerce live summit organised by the Caast agency. On the sidelines of the event, Laurent Bacquaert, Digital...

12 February 2026

Why and how Leboncoin launched an app in ChatGPT

While OpenAI developed a space for third-party applications within an interface since December 2025, Leboncoin, the second most visited e-commerce site in France, has launched an application in...

10 February 2026

Facing TikTok’s crisis in the US, UpScrolled attracts users

In the USA, whileTikTok has been navigating turbulence since a restructuring on January 22, 2026, led by a new entity controlled by Oracle and Silver Lake (bugs, service outages and accusations of...

10 February 2026

[Amazon Results] E-commerce fuelled by AI and advertising drives Amazon in 2025, but the cloud bet raises questions

Driven by e-commerce, the marketplace, the cloud, and advertising — four units each generating more than US$12 billion in incremental revenue in 2025 — Amazon ended the year with solid...

6 February 2026

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Aroma-Zone and Najar reveal the behind-the-scenes of a strategic partnership

As the adoption of AI results in increasing cost volatility for companies, mind Retail spoke in Monaco with Christelle Glaszer, Manager of Indirect Purchases at Aroma-Zone natural beauty retailer...

13 March 2026

After-sales service: Prolong aims to become the OS of repair and adds 3 luxury brands

Signing of three high-end clients, launch of a maintenance passport, imminent Seed funding round and cloud migration project in China… At a 1-to-1 conference in Monaco, the Founder of Prolong...

12 March 2026

Regulatory: With 200,000 Digital Product Passports issued, Darty scales up

While the European Commission is set to vote on delegated acts to specify requirements for home appliances, Darty is accelerating a Digital Product Passport (DPP) push by integrating new products...

11 March 2026

Electronic labels: Hanshow accelerates breakthrough and signs with a leading British retailer

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Conflicts in the Middle East: what impact on the supply chain and European retail?

With US and Israeli strikes on Iran triggering a major crisis on February 28, 2026, retailers already have to face the closure of strategic trade routes, rising freight costs and import...

5 March 2026

Regulatory: With 200,000 Digital Product Passports issued, Darty scales up

While the European Commission is set to vote on delegated acts to specify requirements for home appliances, Darty is accelerating a Digital Product Passport (DPP) push by integrating new products...

11 March 2026

Following a complaint from the FTC, Walmart agrees to pay US$100 million to Spark delivery drivers

On February 26, 2026, Walmart (2025 revenue: US$713.2 billion, up by 5.1% at constant rates) agreed to pay US$100 million in response to allegations of misleading compensation to delivery drivers...

4 March 2026

Agentic commerce : After Stripe, Mirakl partners with JPMorgan Payments

On March 10, 2026, Mirakl and JPMorgan Payments (JPMP) unveiled a partnership to deploy agentic commerce by combining the Mirakl Nexus agentic orchestration platform with the U.S. bank’s...

16 March 2026

Online authentification : Prelude expands a “message free” solution globally

A competitor to Twilio, Vonage and Plivo, the French startup Prelude, which has 75 retail clients, is actively deploying Prelude Zero, an authentication method that requires no message delivery...

13 March 2026