[Mind Retail info] Ouidrop rolls out drive-through robotics at E.Leclerc and prepares for Series A Europe Mind Retail learned the French start-up, which specialises in robotics technology for grocery drive-throughs, has signed new deals with E.Leclerc supermarkets. The rapidly growing start-up, whose staff doubled in a year, is also about to begin a Series A process in September.
Exclusive [mind Retail Exclusive] MediaMarkt aims to boost after-sales service performance with AI-enhanced advisors Europe Behind the scenes of Shoptalk, mind Retail spoke with Henny Steiniger, VP of Customer Experience at MediaMarkt. She revealed her ambitions for the new after-sales chatbot enhanced with generative AI, launched in early May 2025 and designed for in-store advisors.
[Shoptalk] At Tesco, the ship-from-store model is reaching limits at 30% of online sales per store Europe On June 2, 2025, at the Shoptalk conference in Barcelona, which mind Retail attended, Oliver Vogt (Tesco) reviewed the implementation of logistics hubs dedicated to e-commerce fulfillment in British supermarkets. Here are the key takeaways.
[mind Retail Day] La Redoute announces the opening of a marketplace in Belgium in 2026 At mind Retail Day’s event, Edouard Roussel, Director of Partnerships for La Redoute, announced the launch of a Belgian marketplace. He also detailed the French marketplace's growth levers. We explain the details.
To capture the potential of Indian beauty, Chanel seals a key partnership with Nykaa Asia In India, the premium beauty market is whetting appetites. Under the leadership of Chanel’s CDO, Renaud Batteux,…
Vusion and NielsenIQ join forces to optimise assortments and merchandising Americas Europe On May 6, 2025, global leaders in electronic shelf labels and data solutions for retail and consumer insights, Vusion and NielsenIQ,…
Thibault Tabard, Ingka: ‘With 2 to 3 openings per year, we are aiming for 20 design studios by 2030’ As Ikea expands urban stores dedicated to project design, mind Retail wanted to understand the results. How many appointments were made last year ? What is the uplift in consumer spending ? We have an exclusive analysis from Thibault Tabard, Director of Expansion for France at Ingka, the group's first franchisee.
Start-up under the microscope Customer satisfaction: Actionable enhances product with an AI Data Analyst assistant Europe Just a year after launch, tech start-up Actionable, which specialises in predicting customer satisfaction, is picking up speed. With a product launch, ISO 27001 certification, an award at One-to-One Monaco conference, and new staff, C.E.O and Co-Founder Nicolas Rieul spoke with mind Retail to reveal the company's ambitions.
data [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, Ahold-Delhaize, Carrefour, Albertsons, Tesco and Aeon. With the exception of 3 players, most retailers failed to save their margins last year. In terms of e-commerce, all retailers made progress, with some even breaking through the 18% sales share glass ceiling.
Exclusive [mind Retail Exclusive] In the process of rolling out Autone in stores, Lancel is testing digital use Europe After deploying the Autone inventory management solution in France, Lancel premium retailer is preparing to run a pilot on an e-commerce site, mind Retail has learned. Claire Casteig, Retail Director at Lancel, explained the next stages of the roll-out of this AI-augmented tool.
