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Social Commerce. YouTube launches live shopping in South Korea
After TikTok (1.09 billion users in April 2023) with TikTokShop, it’s now YouTube‘s turn (2.53 billion) to launch a live shopping channel. The video platform owned by Alphabet...
26 June 2023
Retail media: Kingfisher, Rakuten, Galeries Lafayette and 10 other retailers join the Carrefour-Publicis joint venture
On 15 June, Alexandre Bompard and Arthur Sadoun, C.E.O.s of Carrefour and Publicis respectively, presented the first stage of their partnership in online retail media at Vivatech. Announced in...
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19 June 2023
USA. Victoria’s Secret goes digital with Amazon
While Victoria’s Secret already offers beauty products on Amazon, on June 6, 2023, the company announced that it would also be adding 4,000 new fashion items to the platform, including...
9 June 2023
[Case study] Merchandising : How Etam went from 15 to 4 days for new collections set up
With 1,300 points of sale, which account for most of turnover, the Etam Group (Etam, Undiz, Maison 123, Ysé and Livy) adopted the Yoobic application to ensure compliance with in-store...
Non-food: Lidl expands an online non-food business
Following the Belgian online store launch by Action last week with 150 products (already selling in Netherlands since 2021), Lidl has just launched an e-commerce website in France dedicated to...
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23 May 2023
[Amazon results] Focus on A.I. to revive AWS, a declining source of profitability in Q1
Whilst Amazon's e-commerce business is losing momentum (down by 0.1% year-on-year), the AWS cloud service is recording the slowest growth since 2015. To improve profitability, the tech giant is...
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4 May 2023
How Etam wants to generate additional revenue from in-store returns
The underwear retailer Etam (804 stores in 45 countries in late 2022, including 593 fully-owned), whose 90% of sales are generated by stores and 10% online, added a “return management”...
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28 April 2023
[Confidential] In 2022, King Jouet recorded only €150,000 in retail media revenue
Having initiating retail media in 2020 with Criteo, King Jouet (330 stores in France, Switzerland and Benelux, steady turnover of €412 million in 2022) the firm shared results...
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21 April 2023
Why South Korea has become a springboard for LVMH and Gucci
With luxury purchases of US$325 per capita in 2022, South Koreans are the now the world's largest customers for high-end goods. Whilst luxury sales could fall in the U.S.A. in 2023 due to tensions...
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24 March 2023
Fabien Versavau, Rakuten: “With Carrefour, the synergies in terms of retail media are obvious”
Following the announcement of the imminent opening of a Carrefour digital shop on the Rakuten marketplace, Mind Retail met Fabien Versavau, MD of Rakuten France and Executive Officer Rakuten...
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22 March 2023
The American version of Pinduoduo is the most downloaded app in the U.S.
Launched on September 1, 2022, Temu (owned by PDD Holdings, the parent company of Pinduoduo) was the most downloaded app in the USA in November, December and January. Up to the beginning of...
2 February 2023
Cegid wants to enhance sellers’ experience
Task management planning for vendors, integration within the Cegid Retail ERP software by June 2023 and a possible acquisition of clienteling software. With the Cegid Retail Store Excellence...
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20 January 2023
Primark : expansion with smaller formats
If store traffic and sales remain below 2019 levels, the discreet fashion retailer is relaunching a sustained expansion while rationalized square metres. It also confirms no home delivery.
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7 December 2022
In China, Pinduoduo overtakes Alibaba
The Nasdaq-listed online platform Pinduoduo (Tencent) is growing a competitive audience in China’s e-commerce market. The company reported 788.4 million annual active users in 2020, ahead of...
15 April 2021
[confidential] Alibaba tests Hema Fresh, a Chinese version of Amazon Go
Mind retail has learned that China's e-commerce giant Alibaba is quietly rolling out "Hema Fresh" supermarket labs. Fully digitalized and serving as e-commerce hubs, they are part of our selection...
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13 June 2017
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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
After launching the first pilots of its conversational AI “super app” in stores, Cegid is rolling out new omnichannel modules, including an in-store data acquisition module, conversational AI for...
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1 October 2026
While Mediaperformances, historically focused on FMCG retailers, targets both international expansion and new verticals, CEO Claire Koralewski shared with mind Retail, during NRF Europe, a...
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22 September 2026