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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...
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27 February 2026
Klépierre, URW, Carmila: in 2025, retail media and services accounted for nearly 10% of net rental income
Published on February 12 and 19, annual financial results of the three major European property companies show that Klépierre, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, and Carmila are no longer singing from the...
24 February 2026
TikTok, Meta, Snapchat: how regulatory constraints are reshuffling cards for customer engagement
In Europe, the European Commission is holding TikTok accountable by demanding the redesign of an interface deemed addictive, under pressure from a strengthened regulatory framework spearheaded by...
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- Economy and regulators
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...
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18 February 2026
Pierre Chassigneux: “b.connect will launch an automated onboarding portal for merchants”
The online passwordless authentication solution b.connect has been launched in beta test at 24 clients, including Leroy Merlin, Boulanger, Celio and Courir. The promise is to simplify user login...
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16 February 2026
Xavier Grand, Algolia: “The challenge is integrating the chatbot into search without deteriorating the experience”
Driven by generative AI, voice and image, e-commerce search is entering a new era. On the sidelines of AI Day, held on February 10, 2026 in Paris, Xavier Grand, CTO of Algolia, outlines a 2026...
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13 February 2026
Retail media and AI: Mirakl Ads aims to maximise personalisation and marketplace revenue
At the age of agentic commerce, personalising recommendations becomes a key performance sales lever for marketplaces. At the AI Day organised by France Digitale in Paris, Mirakl detailed the...
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12 February 2026
Fewer goods, more services and leisure: when demographic shock transforms retail
In 2025, the number of deaths surpassed the number of births in France. At the Retail Data Day on February 5, 2026, and at the BNP Financial Services Cetelem's Observatory barometer on consumption...
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- Economy and regulators
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12 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...
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6 February 2026
AI Builders study : 18% of French companies have launched agentic projects
Whilst a shift towards agentic commerce has been under way for several months, consulting firm AI Builders has revealed, exclusively to mind Retail, a study on the disintermediation of customer...
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6 February 2026
Tata Consultancy Services warns only 24% of retailers use AI for autonomous decision-making
Despite a strong rhetoric around AI, retail struggles to move beyond chatbots. According to the TCS Global Retail Outlook 2026 study, based on responses from 800 executives across 18 countries, AI...
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4 February 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...
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28 January 2026
NRF 2026: 6 start-ups at the heart of in-store performance despite agentic commerce
While the shore floor remains a top priority for global retailers, mind Retail selected 6 start-ups from NRF that stood out for their focus on in-store operational efficiency. We believe this is...
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28 January 2026
2026 Trends – Unified commerce: when stock and product flow management is boosted by AI
(Trends, 5/6) Under margin pressure and faced with increasingly complex omnichannel flows, retailers are turning stock management into a strategic streamlining lever. Demand planning, OMS and...
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27 January 2026
2026 Trends – Retail organises itself in the face of the Trump trade war
(Trend 4/6) Invested as President for a second term in 2025, Donald Trump has shaken global trade. Between higher customs duties, a tax on small parcels, attacks on diversity and inclusion...
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- Economy and regulators
23 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.
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23 January 2026
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Against a backdrop of growing pressure on household budgets, the European CCD2 Directive coming into force and a new legal framework for assisted purchasing journeys, Oney is stepping up an...
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29 October 2026
Amid an ownership shake-up following its acquisition by Evoriel, shopping centre operator Advantail has signed with Formality to digitise the management of commercial leases and contracts across...
23 October 2026
With an average basket of €3,500 and a payment journey that includes a financial deposit at the time of ordering, Mobilier de France shares with mind Retail its assessment of the rollout of...
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15 October 2026
Eager to bring together customer data and improve data accuracy, jewellery and watch retailer Maison A.Constant built its own Single Customer Repository (SCR) using n8n, an orchestration platform...
7 October 2026
Most viewed articles of the month on mind Retail
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AI agents: the KPIs that led L’Oréal to scale up across its warehouses
After testing 7 AI agents in its warehouses, L’Oréal is scaling up. Deployed to coordinate picking waves, manage replenishment and handle stocktaking, Manhattan’s agents have helped cut several...
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20 October 2026
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How Mobilier de France reduced the share of cheque payments from 80% to 50%
With an average basket of €3,500 and a payment journey that includes a financial deposit at the time of ordering, Mobilier de France shares with mind Retail its assessment of the rollout of...
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15 October 2026
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Julien Cailleau, Oney: “With 3 retailers, we are testing the use of Valiuz data to streamline financing approvals”
Against a backdrop of growing pressure on household budgets, the European CCD2 Directive coming into force and a new legal framework for assisted purchasing journeys, Oney is stepping up an...
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29 October 2026
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Danone turns to AI to personalise marketing campaigns and test advertising in ChatGPT
AI is being rolled out across some marketing activities, while others remain in a testing phase. If campaign automation and personalisation are among the most advanced applications, visibility in...
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16 October 2026