robotics
Intersport invests €40 million in automating a mega-warehouse with TGW
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...
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- Retailer and e-commerce
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3 October 2025
[Mind Retail info] Ouidrop rolls out drive-through robotics at E.Leclerc and prepares for Series A
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...
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26 August 2025
Delipop bankruptcy: a warning for urban logistics start-ups?
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...
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- Retailer and e-commerce
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1 August 2025
Daniel Gebler, Picnic: “Like in the Netherlands, we want to launch a reverse logistics service in France and Germany”
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...
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19 June 2025
E.Leclerc and Système U will test Ouidrop’s Dropper solution
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...
22 December 2023
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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