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Retail media & LLMs: navigating intent-driven and custom experiences
From store aisles to ChatGPT Ads placements, retail media is shifting away from traditional slots, formats and keywords toward intent-based targeting. Driven by lower access costs to LLMs, full catalog connectivity via Lemrock, multi-retailer data pooling through Dunnhumby, and the rise of...
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From ChatGPT Ads to Amazon Alexa for Shopping: advertising in LLMs scales up in Europe
This summer, OpenAI successively rolled out its ChatGPT Ads platform in the UK and in 30 European countries. From formats used, CPM levels notably for FMCG products and the new role of GEO...
27 August 2026
E-commerce: click-through rate down by 5.4% since Google AIO launch in France
mind Retail has gained access to exclusive Ahrefs figures on the impact of Google "AI Overviews" responses for the e-commerce sector. Launched on July 22, 2026, in France as part of AI Mode, these...
Roxane Laigle (Lemrock): “With the rise of AI, the CPC or CPM advertising model will lose ground to buying intent”
While AI is now part of 40% of purchasing journeys, Lemrock intends to become the key infrastructure connecting retailers' product catalogues to conversational engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity...
27 July 2026
Retail media: Vusion strengthens its footprint with the acquisition of In-Store Media
As part of a strategy of vertical integration and boosted by a strong H1 2026, Vusion acquired Spanish retail media specialist In-Store Media (2025 revenue: €120 million). This debt-financed deal...
3 August 2026
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H1 review: LLM establish themselves as a new channel, retailers must keep up
In just six months, conversational AI engines such as ChatGPT and Gemini have evolved from mere curiosities into a major customer acquisition channel, now capturing almost 20% of referral traffic to e-commerce sites in the USA and 10% in Brazil and in India. Faced with this lightning-fast...
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How to master AI acceleration: key takeaways of the mind Retail Day 2026
[Executive talks] More than 100 people were present in Paris on June 25, at Onepoint offices, for the 3rd edition of mind Retail Day. Discussions were under the theme of mastering AI acceleration...
2 July 2026
According to Euromonitor, AI engines will influence 13% of global e-commerce sales by 2029
As traffic coming from ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity to e-commerce websites jumped by 390% last year, retailers are losing control of their audience and consumers now trust LLM (38%) more than...
From traffic acquisition to visibility in LLM, the new challenge of marketing teams
As AI engines have become a new distribution channel and access point to consumers in a saturated retail market, mind Retail attended Shoptalk Europe and asked a dozen of retailers, analysts and...
Rik Strubel, Douglas: “Traffic from LLMs converts 25% better than traditional web traffic”
For the European beauty retailer Douglas (2025 revenue: €4.58 billion, up by 3.5%), with one-third of online sales, traffic coming from LLM is becoming increasingly important, with differences by...
11 June 2026
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How will agentic commerce translate into physical stores?
As the race towards agentic AI accelerates, blurring the boundaries between e-commerce sites, marketplaces and large conversational models, retailers are reorganising their infrastructures around an omnichannel unified architecture. This is highlighted by Walmart’s historic achievement of...
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Alexandre Chaumien, Shopify: “Traffic generated by AI searches on Catalog converts twice as much as traffic from traditional AI searches”
As shopping shifts from “scrolling”, filters and keyword-based searches towards a more conversational and intent-driven mode, mind Retail spoke with Alexandre Chaumien, Shopify's Head of Revenue...
26 May 2026
Pierre Demoures, Vusion: “Bluetooth will become our standard protocol and will be integrated into all our developments”
Faced with the rise of in-store picking for online orders, Vusion (formerly SES-imagotag) is accelerating the digitalisation of physical stores. Driven by the launch of a Bluetooth (BLE) protocol...
22 May 2026
Food barometer 2026: Walmart takes the lead in the global grocery e-commerce battle
Despite sustained growth for most grocery retailers in 2025, margins tightened and the hierarchy has reshuffled, favouring the most omnichannel and diversified companies, such as Walmart, Ahold...
With Everlane’s takeover, Shein makes a forced omnichannel shift
While its 2025 financial landing is not public yet - it used to be released in February so far - Shein is taking over U.S. retailer Everlane. The fast fashion brand aims to improve a brand image...
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WhatsApp, rich SMS, YouTube, TikTok: Focus on the conversational levers that engage the most
Beyond traditional stores and e-commerce sites, retail has shifted to conversational omnichannel, where WhatsApp, RCS, and live shopping are becoming drivers of conversion and lifetime value. At the start of 2026, initiatives are flourishing. These include a RCS button POC at Google My Business...
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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...
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...
18 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...
13 February 2026
Google is testing the RCS button in Google My Business alongside the WhatsApp button
A year after WhatsApp, Google is testing the RCS button in My Business listings for several markets, according to our information. The goal is to offer brands a new marketing lever that can be...
20 February 2026
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