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Logan Kluth, Blue Yonder: “Very soon, we will offer warehousing features tailored to each industry”
Aa Blue Yonder signed another acquisition last month with Optoro's takeover, mind Retail spoke with Logan Kluth, Product Director at Blue Yonder, which specialises in digital demand and...
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- Retail tech
15 September 2025
European lockers: Mondial Relay aligns France with InPost’s best practices
No labels, remote opening, native QR codes... After the addition of 3,000 lockers in France in a year, Mondial Relay (InPost group) is launching a new label-free parcel delivery feature, inspired...
15 September 2025
UK : Morrisons and Waitrose are trialling connected trolleys to reduce shoplifting
Against a backdrop of rising shoplifting across Europe, Morrisons and Waitrose are trialling connected shopping trolleys with Instacart and Shopic. The aim of this digitalisation of a customer...
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- Retail tech
15 September 2025
After Dim and Bally, Regent sets sights on Petit Bateau to grow a European portfolio
After several years of declining turnover (down by 6% in 3 years) and a net loss that worsened in 2024, Petit Bateau is changing hands. The planned sale to the U.S. investment fund Regent, which...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
8 September 2025
[Puma sale] In an anxious market, how much room for price manoeuvre do Nike, Adidas and JD Sports have?
As Kering's holding company sells Puma, mind Retail analysed the latest financial results of the footwear retailers and their commercial and pricing strategies. Here are the key figures to...
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- Retailer and e-commerce
8 September 2025
Solutys expands RFID scope and takes over Rayonnance and Nedap France
A week after the Buylo start-up's funding round, the RFID market has seen a second announcement. In a move towards consolidation, Solutys Group, a traceability solutions integrator, announced a...
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- Retail tech
8 September 2025
Shein accelerates growth in Europe in H1, despite a major financial penalty in France
According to DSA data consulted by mind Retail, Shein revved up engines in key EU markets in the first half of 2025, with monthly active users up 14%. This is a notable rebound after 6 sluggish...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
5 September 2025
South Africa: Shoprite rolls out smart trolleys, designed in-house by the tech division
In 2 Checkers hypermarkets, the South African giant is testing a smart connected trolley technology developed by ShopriteX, the tech entity of the parent company. Trolleys are equipped with...
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- Retail tech
28 August 2025
After a poor second quarter, Target is reshuffling the deck: new C.E.O., new priorities to get back on track
The U.S. grocery retailer Target is embarking on a strategic shift after a difficult first semester. With 19.6% of online sales and three-quarters from non-food products, the US's third-largest...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
27 August 2025
[Mind Retail info] Ouidrop rolls out drive-through robotics at E.Leclerc and prepares for Series A
Mind Retail learned the French start-up, which specialises in robotics technology for grocery drive-throughs, has signed new deals with E.Leclerc supermarkets. The rapidly growing start-up, whose...
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- Retail tech
26 August 2025
EU-US customs duties: as luxury goods and beauty products, wines and spirits will be taxed at 15%
Exports of products manufactured in Europe to the U.S.A. are now subject to 15% customs duties. While the aeronautics sector is exempt, this is not the case for wines, spirits, cosmetics and...
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- Economy and regulators
26 August 2025
Biometric payment: Handwave raises US$4.2 million and signs with Visa
In the wake of Amazon One, Latvian start-up Handwave aims to democratise biometric payment and authentication using the palm of the hand. The past weeks have seen major announcements by the...
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- Retail tech
21 August 2025
Online returns: Blue Yonder completes logistics suite with the acquisition of Optoro
Following in the footsteps of Best Buy, DHL and Picnic, Blue Yonder is responding to the rising challenge of online returns. As their operational, environmental and commercial impact increases...
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- Retail tech
20 August 2025
Malls : Simon Property accelerates data monetisation with Humana, URW continues arbitrage
As more Americans visited shopping centres in H1 2025, the sector’s leader Simon Property Group is expanding both data and community engagement with a new partnership with Humana. This gives a new...
- Retail
- Property and investors
20 August 2025
After Ebay, Klarna is collaborating with the resale platform Poshmark
Faced with the rise of circular fashion in the USA, where the second-hand market is worth US$51.9 billion, and the Swedish fintech company's ambitions to offer services beyond payment methods...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
5 August 2025
Delipop bankruptcy: a warning for urban logistics start-ups?
Dissolved on July 30 by the Paris Commercial Court, the start-up Delipop, which pooled pedestrian drive-through pickups for several food retailers such as Carrefour and Intermarché via automated...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
1 August 2025
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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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- Retail tech
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
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US retailers divided over the rise of autonomous shopping agents
In the US, Gap, Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon and eBay are taking very different approaches to agentic commerce. While TV shopping giants QVC and HSN see these new intermediaries as an opportunity to...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- Analysis
21 October 2026