Retail Media: Loblaw aims to accelerate in-store with Stratacache Americas 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,…
The Body Shop returns to the U.S.A. with a 100% digital model Americas After closing in the U.S.A. in March 2024, The Body Shop (3,000 stores, 60 countries) made a return to the market on October 7 through an exclusively digital operation.…
Losing momentum, Ulta Beauty launches a marketplace with Mirakl Americas On October 15, the U.S. retailer Ulta Beauty (2024 turnover: 11.2 billion dollars, up by 0.8% after up by 5.7% in 2023,…
Agentic Commerce: when ChatGPT disintermediates retail Americas Europe Already launched at Etsy, BigBasket and soon Walmart and Glossier, AI agents allow purchasing a product or service directly within artificial intelligence engines, without leaving the conversation. A strategy explored in France by Carrefour and Groupama, mind Retail learned. Analysis of a shift that raises questions about the role of e-commerce sites, control of transactional data and future dependence on AI platforms.
AI-driven job cuts on the rise in tech sector Americas As leading tech companies ramp up investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and roll out transformation plans to boost its development, layoffs across the sector are increasing. But are the job cuts at firms like Amazon, Microsoft, Accenture, Intel, and Salesforce truly driven by AI? The reality appears more complex.
Cosmetics: How start-up Aiso multiplied by 5 the visibility of U.S. brand Particle on ChatGPT Americas Since March 2025, Israeli start-up Aiso has been working with the U.S. online brand Particle, a specialist in men’s cosmetics, to strengthen visibility on ChatGPT. In 6 months, impressions have multiplied by five and traffic from the LLM increased by 2.5%. For mind Retail, C.E.O. Benjamin Tannenbaum explains the technological mechanisms behind the solution.
U.S.A: ByteDance transfers control of TikTok to investor consortium Americas On September 25, Donald Trump signed an executive order mandating the sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations, a subsidiary of ByteDance (2024 revenue: US$155 billion,…
OpenAI enables U.S. users to purchase Etsy products directly within ChatGPT Americas On September 29, OpenAI (H1 2025 revenue: US$4.3 billion, up by 16% year-on-year, net loss of US$2.5 billion) launched a native e-commerce feature for the ChatGPT LLM in the U.S.A.…
IPO: Retail and fintech return to Wall Street with Klarna, Gemini and Pattern Americas After years of slowdown, the I.P.O. market is picking up steam in the U.S.A. This is shown by IPOs of Klarna, Gemini and Pattern in the retail and fintech sectors.
Generative AI: following Walmart and Carrefour, Albertsons launches customer chatbot Americas On September 10, 2025, Albertsons, the 5th largest grocery retailer in the U.S.A. (2024 turnover: US$80.4 billion, up by 2% on a like-for-like basis excluding petrol) unveiled ‘Ask AI’,…
