There’s no doubt; there’s going to be a pre- and a post-2017. This year, we’re seeing the reinvention of retail , a reinvention that tends to erase the barriers between...

Alibaba Group is about to announce the official beginning of the ninth edition of 11.11, the world’s biggest sales event which was initially conceived to be 100% online. This year,...

By Jean-Marc MEGNIN, General Manager   Few people know and details are hard to come by but it’s official: after testing out the Chinese market for three years via virtual...

Jeff Bezos said, upon receiving NRF’s Top Retailer award in 2013, “In order to break a new market, Amazon focuses on the weakest part of its economic model.” Four years...

First Amazon and Whole Foods, now it’s the turn of Walmart and Google! Further proof that, as already discussed here, we are currently experiencing the third stage of a worldwide...

On June 16th, the e-commerce giant Amazon took everyone by surprise when they announced their purchase of the American chain Whole Foods Market. This represents a massive inroad for the...

Chinese start-up Bingo Box has launched a concept whereby customers can buy around 400 basic supplies at any time of the day or night from an entirely automated container. Auchan...

  Denouncing the dehumanisation of business. Being indignant about the pre-eminence of groups like Amazon, Uber or Google. Challenging the management methods used in logistics centres (competitions between staff, workers...

  The results of the 2017 Shopper Value® Barometer have recently been revealed. In the food sector, customers approve of drive-up services, which has become the preferred point of access...