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After a successful test in August, the British pure player Asos (2024 turnover: 3.7 billion dollars, down by 16% after down by 11% in 2023) launched Asos Live on October 2, a live shopping feature...

20 October 2025

With live shopping, Voyages E.Leclerc has attracted 28,420 viewers in two years

E.Leclerc Voyage, the travel agency of the second largest French grocery retailer by market share (2024 turnover: €49.9 billion, excluding fuel, up by 2.6%, after a 10.3%-increase in 2023)...

25 March 2025

California: first flagship dedicated to live shopping on TikTok

Gone are the days of content creators live-streaming from a bedroom. On November 21, digital agency Outlandish opened a first store in the U.S.A. dedicated to live shopping on TikTok Shop. In...

28 November 2024

USA: Meta stops live shopping initiatives

In mid-February 2023, Meta (turnover of US$117 billion in 2022 down by 1%) indicated the end of the possibility to tag products (and thus make them “shoppable”) in live...

9 March 2023

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Marketplaces: Stockly enters Switzerland with MediaMarkt, Decathlon, Galaxus and Manor

After a loss-making but high-growth year in 2025, the stock-pooling start-up for marketplaces signed agreements with 4 Swiss players, mind Retail learned. By taking on one of Europe’s most...

30 January 2026

Save launches an e-commerce site to support a shift towards sales

Having just reached break-even, the French subsidiary of refurbished specialist Save intends to go beyond an historical model of repair to develop sales of accessories and refurbished products...

23 January 2026

Shoptimus AI scales up in grocery smart shopping lists and prepares for a new funding round

After securing a strategic partnership with Spanish grocer Bon Preu, retail tech firm Shoptimus AI—first spotted by Carrefour—is accelerating a rollout. By leveraging AI agents to automate grocery...

11 January 2026

Agentic AI: Hymalaia attracts retailers and announces imminent fundraising

According to our sources, the young start-up Hymalaia is continuing development in retail with 4 new retailers currently in POC and an imminent fundraising. We examine the details.

16 December 2025

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11 January 2026

Global retail tech investment rose by 7.4% in 2025

In 2025, venture capital continued to flow into commerce technologies. With 27.5 billion dollars invested in retail tech, the average deal size increased while the number of transactions declined.

23 January 2026

With Walmart, Ulta Beauty, Zalando and Carrefour, Google launches an agentic commerce protocol

Following the launch of payments in Copilot, Google is preparing to join OpenAI and Microsoft, but with a more integrated version focused on its own payment method, Google Pay. These moves...

13 January 2026

2026 Trends – Retail media, between omnichannel reach, creativity and measurement

(Trends, 6/6) After an exceptional 2024 driven by the Olympic Games, retail media entered a phase of maturity and slowing business last year. It nonetheless remains extremely dynamic, fuelled by...

28 January 2026

2026 Trends – Chatbots, WhatsApp, social networks: don’t miss out on conversation

(Trends 2/6) After a cautious observation phase by retailers and some high-profile hallucination issues, 2025 was a turning point operationally for chatbots and conversational tools. Positioned...

13 January 2026

2026 Trends – How far should retailers open the door to AI Search engines ?

(Trends 1/6) With data visibility, recommendations, transactions on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, LLMs are establishing themselves as new entry points for e-commerce. As search, comparison and...

8 January 2026