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According to our sources, Marionnaud’s beauty retailer will expand an advertising unit into 3 new countries in 2026 and is launching another retail media lever in the French key market. The goal...

26 November 2025

Deborah Van Dessel (Lagardère Travel Retail): “We are testing AI tools and prompts for store layout”

Between global governance, local ambassador clubs and deployments at scale, Lagardère Travel Retail identified major operational gains thanks to AI, while other use cases reveal the current limits...

25 November 2025

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

Walmart parts ways with C.E.O. after 9-month revenue up by 4.4%

On November 14, the world’s largest retailer, Walmart (revenue 2024: US$681 billion, up by 5.6% at constant rates), announced the departure of C.E.O., Doug McMillon. In office since...

21 November 2025

How Cuisinella’s AI chatbot generates a rise by 21% of in-store appointments

To support “drive-to-store”, the Schmidt group subsidiary deployed an AI chatbot on the e-commerce site to improve conversion of in-store appointment bookings. For mind Retail, Daniel Freyd, Chief...

20 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

Ikea compresses margin in 2025 to stay accessible despite falling revenue

In a context of rising tariffs and lower in-store traffic gains, Ikea closed the financial year with another decline in sales. While volumes increased and e-commerce reached 28% of activity, the...

17 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

Carrefour: with 4% of the shares Rodolphe Saadé strengthens governance after the Diniz exit

A page is turning at Carrefour. On November 12, 2025 the Brazilian Diniz family (a shareholder since 2014 through its holding Peninsula) sold the 8% stake. At the same time Rodolphe...

13 November 2025

At Roissy 80% of checked Shein items found non-compliant

Following inspections at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday November 6, 2025 on 200,000 Shein parcels “8 out of 10 items have proved non-compliant so far”, the French Ministry...

10 November 2025

[Amazon Results] Amazon delivers a solid Q3 2025, driven by AWS, e-commerce and advertising

Amazon recorded solid growth over the first 9 months of 2025, driven by e-commerce, cloud activities and a rebound in advertising. However, the group is seeing profitability ease under record...

10 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

Will France and Europe manage to suspend Shein, as they did with Wish?

Accused of selling illegal products, Shein faces a French government crackdown aiming to block the website of the world’s No.4 fashion retailer. This standoff raises questions about the EU’s...

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

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

JD.com, Amazon Haul, Kaufland, Rakuten: Europe becomes new battleground for global marketplaces

In the U.S.A. sales of ultra-low-price marketplaces sourcing goods from Asia are declining, as parcels worth less than US$800 are now subject to customs duties and a flat tax. As a result, players...

30 October 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

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

Circana: French e-commerce ended 2025 with strong growth, hypermarkets continue to decline

After four years of decline, volumes of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) rose again in 2025 in France and Europe, although they did not compensate for four years of losses. The rebound was...

15 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

Black Friday: Amazon’s AI assistant Rufus featured in 38% of sessions in the US

While peak season sales, revealed at the NRF Big Show, rose by 4.1% in the US from November 1 to December 31, 2025, Rufus, Amazon’s conversational chatbot, confirmed its traction. During the...

15 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