Exclusive France: Intersport invests €40 million in automating a mega-warehouse with TGW Europe On October 1, 2025, Intersport inaugurated a new automated warehouse in the French Eastern region (Plaine de l’Ain). Expanded to 82,000 sq.m and fully financed by the cooperative with a €40 million investment, the facility is now equipped with TGW order-picking robots to support the growth of omnichannel operations and the rollout of in-store click & collect. Details were shared with us by Gérard Leclerc, C.E.O. of Intersport France and Belgium.
[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.
Delipop bankruptcy: a warning for urban logistics start-ups? Europe Dissolved on July 30 by the Paris Commercial Court, the start-up Delipop, which pooled pedestrian drive-through pickups for several food retailers such as Carrefour and Intermarché via automated lockers, had not found economic stability. This is a strong warning about limitations of automated click & collect solutions in the face of the rise of individual lockers promoted by Mondial Relay, Vinted Go, and others.
Daniel Gebler, Picnic: “Like in the Netherlands, we want to launch a reverse logistics service in France and Germany” Europe As e-commerce retailer Picnic accelerates its logistics robotization with the opening of a third—and largest—automated processing center in Germany, it is also embracing new models. In the Netherlands, delivery drivers now handle e-commerce returns for Asos and Zalando, capitalizing on their routes to improve the profitability of their flows. Founder and CTO Daniel Gebler spoke to mind Retail about his priorities for transformation during Vivatech.
Exclusive [Info mind Retail] E.Leclerc and Système U will test Ouidrop’s Dropper solution Europe Mind Retail learned that after a successful pilot at Unibail Rodamco Westfield at the Forum des Halles and a €2 million fund-raising round in July 2023, the start-up specialised in robotic lockers Ouidrop signed new contracts with grocery retailers. At URW, three other shopping centers will be equipped.
