Within Europe, summer heatwaves highlight the vulnerability of store estates, with energy consumption surging up by to 30%, cold room and refrigerated cabinets breaking down, uncontrolled thermal...
While AI is now part of 40% of purchasing journeys, Lemrock intends to become the key infrastructure connecting retailers' product catalogues to conversational engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity...
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Despite sustained growth for most grocery retailers in 2025, margins tightened and the hierarchy has reshuffled, favouring the most omnichannel and diversified companies, such as Walmart, Ahold...
According to Najar's Retail SaaS Trend Report 2026 study, to which mind Retail had access, 65% of retailers use at least 5 AI tools (OpenAI, Mistral, Claude...) simultaneously. While ChatGPT...
For mind Retail, online SEO specialist Ahrefs analysed retail queries on AI search engines. The goal was to measure the proportion of transactional prompts compared to informational ones. The...
Published on February 12 and 19, annual financial results of the three major European property companies show that Klépierre, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, and Carmila are no longer singing from the...
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In the wake of a large fundraising, Skello develops a portfolio of key accounts by winning over a big name in retail. Backed by an ARR of €50 million and profitability reached in 2025, the...
Taking back control of the commercialisation of digital screens, ongoing tests with computer vision start-up XXII specialised in data analytics for brick & mortars... Klépierre, Europe’s second...
At the heart of a strategic shift from outlet and clearance operator to a full price marketplace, Showroomprivé unveiled the name of a new technology partner for retail media during the 3rd mind...
The onboarding of AI in supply-chain jobs is accelerating drastically, with 2 major new signatures for Relex. From a massive adoption of voice use by store staff to the arrival of autonomous AI...
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Long confined to ‘click & collect’ or ‘ship from store’, Order Management Systems (OMS) are now expanding integration due to the rise of agentic AI which provides fine orchestration of flows...
With less than 6 months to go before the delegated Acts come into force, the Digital Product Passport crystallises a dual challenge: shifting from a linear model to a circular economy and enabling...
Refund fraud, long considered taboo but increasingly popular on social media, accounted for 15.1% of returns in the United States in 2024. Document fraud, amplified by AI, is also on the rise...
As an increasing share of traffic switches to AI search engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot, SEO teams are reviewing their practices and organisation to increase visibility...
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In France since 2019, companies with more than 50 employees have to provide the Ministry of Labour with a gender equality score. mind Retail analysed the scores of companies in 8 retail sectors.
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H1 review: LLM establish themselves as a new channel, retailers must keep up
In just six months, conversational AI engines such as ChatGPT and Gemini have evolved from mere curiosities into a major customer acquisition channel, now capturing almost 20% of referral traffic to e-commerce sites in the USA and 10% in Brazil and in India. Faced with this lightning-fast...
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As the race towards agentic AI accelerates, blurring the boundaries between e-commerce sites, marketplaces and large conversational models, retailers are reorganising their infrastructures around an omnichannel unified architecture. This is highlighted by Walmart’s historic achievement of...
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