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AI, advertising, subscriptions, marketplace: how Walmart made e-commerce profitable in 2025
Walmart confirms a strategic shift, with 713 billion dollars in revenue in 2025 and a valuation up 600 billion dollars in 2 years. The group has maintained growth and is accelerating high-margin...
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20 February 2026
Why Wall Street is backing Walmart as Amazon reshapes grocery
As Amazon confirms the closure of Fresh and Go stores in a refocusing move, Walmart crosses the symbolic threshold of US$1 trillion in market capitalisation. A trajectory that illustrates Wall...
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5 February 2026
With Grand Frais, Apollo makes a first move into European grocery retail
Through an agreement to acquire 70% of the operator of Grand Frais, the US investment fund Apollo aims to double stores and evolve a model that has so far been entirely focused on physical retail...
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19 December 2025
Colruyt and Carrefour rebalance European assets
On June 17, the Les Mousquetaires Group (2024 sales: €42.5 billion, up 6.4%) announced exclusive negotiations to acquire 81 Colruyt stores, 44 petrol stations, and 1,300 French staff. The...
19 June 2025
Italy’s Conad to invest €258 million in store network
On June 9, the Italian group Conad (2024 revenue of €21.1 billion, up 4.5% year-on-year after a rise of 8.1% in 2023) announced an investment of €258 million by 2027 in a network of...
17 June 2025
Delivery platforms: Doordash acquires Deliveroo for US$3.3 billion
On May 6, US company DoorDash acquired a British rival for US$3.29 billion. As part of Doordash’s international expansion strategy (2024 revenue of US$10.7 billion, up by 24%, net margin...
6 May 2025
Grocery retail consolidation : Salling acquires Rimi Baltic for €1.3 billion
On May 5, Danish retailer Salling (2024 turnover: €9.7 billion, up by 2.7% year-on-year, net margin ratio at 2.4% of sales) received shareholders’ approval to acquire the Baltic...
6 May 2025
[Food Retail Barometer 2024] The financial health of the world’s 10 largest food retailers in 7 charts
Now in a fourth edition, our annual barometer presents the financial performance of the world's 10 largest food retailers from 2017 to 2024: Walmart, Costco, Kroger, Seven & I, Target...
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- Retailer and e-commerce
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17 April 2025
Asda and Currys invest in protection against theft and assault in the U.K.
In the U.K., thefts jumped by 25%, and assaults on staff by 50% in 2024. With the associated loss estimated at €4.8 billion per year for the sector, retailers are investing in more security. We...
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2 April 2025
[mind Retail Exclusive] Exotec speeds up in supermarkets at Colruyt and E.Leclerc
In Belgium, the warehouse automation specialist Exotec signed an agreement with Colruyt grocery retailer (turnover of €5.4 billion in the 6 months to the end of September 2024 down by 0.5%...
7 March 2025
Driven by record I.P.O., Lulu Retail ends 2024 up 5%
On February 10, the food retailer Lulu Retail posted a turnover of US$7.62 billion in the fiscal year to late December 2024. Sales grew by 4.7% at constant rates and 2.3% like-for-like. The...
13 February 2025
Auchan Russia is counting on sanctions being lifted to continue trading
Auchan Retail (2023 sales €32.26 billion, down 2% in a year, via 2,354 stores in 12 countries) has ended discussions with Gazprombank concerning the sale of 232 Russian stores, according to...
30 January 2025
Ahold Delhaize consolidates, with two acquisitions in Belgium and Romania
In Europe, Ahold Delhaize is starting 2025 with a phase of consolidation. In Belgium and Romania, the business is to add 2,000 stores through acquisitions of Delfood and Profi.
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17 January 2025
Asda obtains a US$196-million loan to postpone debt maturities
Following a US$4 billion refinancing in May 2024, the UK’s third-largest grocery retailer Asda (2023 sales of US$ 27.2 billion+ 7,1 % in a year) obtained a US$196 million loan on December 4...
11 December 2024
Seven & i drops the curtain in Israel
After only 18 months of selling in Israel, the world’s 4th largest food retailer by sales, Seven & i Holdings (sales 2023: US$127 billion, down by 2.9%) confirmed closure on November 12...
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14 November 2024
Auchan Retail to sell Russian stores to Gazprombank
Auchan Retail is in the process of withdrawing from Russia, with the sale of all 232 stores, according to La Lettre. While the company announced that it will remain in Ukraine, it is considering...
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- Retailer and e-commerce
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30 October 2024
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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
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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...
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21 October 2026