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The French e-retail media market grew by 42% in 2021
The growth of the French digital advertising market in 2021, around 24%, is notably driven by retail media, a lever boosted by the increase in online purchases and which is more effective since...
16 February 2022
Alma brings Tencent into its capital to accelerate in Europe
The French fractional and deferred payment platform brings in Tencent, GR Capital and Roosh Ventures as shareholders. It plans to open in at least 5 new European countries in 2022.
15 February 2022
Alltricks “Stores should not take anything away from the Web experience”
With 160,000 references online and stores covering 300 sq.m on average, the pure-player Alltricks reported a GMV up by 30% in 2021. Its current challenge is to make customers discover the range...
4 February 2022
Amazon Style : Concept of the Month
After setting the "Just Walk Out" technology as a standard for cashier-free grocery stores, Amazon intends to disrupt fashion retail with Amazon Style. This technology-infused store concept is...
2 February 2022
NRF: Observations from the Retail Big Show 2022
Fabrice Haiat, C.E.O. of Yoobic, and Guillaume Rio, Director of Technology Trends at Echangeur BNP Paribas PF, covered the NRF in New York. Where the 2022 show was disrupted by Covid-19, they...
1 February 2022
Cyber-attacks: time to mobilise defences!
Stores deprived of their VSEs, merchant sites rendered inoperable by malicious software.
How to fight against cyber hackers who are taking full advantage of the boom in e-commerce? How to...
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28 January 2022
Wholesale. Metro AG explores the future of its Indian subsidiary
In India, the German Metro AG is weakened by the brazen disruption of the pure-players JioMart (Reliance Retail) and Udaan.
27 January 2022
Good Food Holdings. “We are in the early stages of selecting dark stores”
In the U.S.A., supermarket chain Good Food Holdings operates 51 stores. According to C.E.O. Neil Stern, inflation, staff shortage and higher wages encourage retailers to automate operations.
26 January 2022
“Spain is now the 4th European country in terms of e-commerce sales”
By Magda Espuga, co-founder of Kiss Retail. Based in Barcelona, this strategy consulting firm specialises in the transformation and optimisation of retail concepts. Kiss Retail includes customers...
19 January 2022
How will people pay in 2022?
Hervé Denis, Head of Flow, Offer, Trade, Innovation & Data Payments Department at Crédit Mutuel Arkéa.
- Retail
- Analysis
13 January 2022
“Independent retailers are not the best experts in use of data”
By Philippe Sence, President of the digital transformation commission at IREF, Federation of European Franchise and Partnership Networks. IREF represents all forms of independent collaborative...
- Retail
- Analysis
13 January 2022
Patrick Raffort, FG2A : “There is a true complementarity between insurance and retail”
Patrick Raffort, President of the FG2A* is also Head of Insurance at Orange. He explains how insurance products have become a new frontier for many retail companies.
- Retail
- Analysis
13 January 2022
“77% of retailers want to increase the drive-to-store portion of their advertising investment”
By Sandrine Prefaut, Managing Director of S4M in France. Operating in 10 countries (USA, Canada, France, Italy, UK, Switzerland, Benelux, Asia-Pacific region…), S4M is an international “drive to...
- Retail
- Analysis
13 January 2022
Nykaa, the Indian pure player to watch in 2022
By Gautam Chowdhury and Imtiaz Batkoo, respectively C.E.O. and Senior Vice President of Bangalore-based consulting firm RXG Business Consulting. They decode for Mind Retail the business model of...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
13 January 2022
USA. “Inflation and logistics challenges put increased pressure on retailers to manage costs”
Amanda Lai, Consulting Senior Manager / Food Retail Practice Leader, McMillanDoolittle in Chicago
- Retail
- Analysis
13 January 2022
Poland. “As price competition rises, we expect a wave of M&A and withdrawals from the market”
Agnieszka Gornicka, C.E.O. Inquiry Market Research, a Warsaw-based retail research and consulting firm.
- Retail
- Analysis
13 January 2022
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