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  • [Analyze] The six major challenges facing retail in 2024

    A few of the barriers for retail in 2024 include generative AI, retail media, decarbonisation and CSRD, omnichannel efficiency or social commerce. Retail, commercial property and retail tech sectors are all facing new pressures. What they all have in common is the need for efficiency and hyper-agility, against a backdrop of fluctuating demand and financing pressures. The challenge is to generate Ebitda to finance recovery plans (digital transformation and price cuts) and settle residual debt.

  • [NRF 2024] The new levers of retail media seen at NRF

    The theme of retail media came to the fore at NRF 2024, with a day of dedicated workshops on 13 January and feedback from a number of players like Kroger, Ulta, and 7/11. Between onsite, offsite and in-store, mind Retail presents the key findings of the event, based on interviews with Christian Raveaux (Rewe), Marissa Jarrat (7/Eleven), Arnaud Lauga (Publicis Commerce), Jérôme Hamrit (Vusion Group), Sucharita Kodali (Forrester) and Tanguy Pincemin (Dunnhumby).

  • [Amazon results] In Q3 2023, Amazon more than tripled net margin on the back of a savings plan and a return to fundamentals

    After a post-Covid-19 pandemic slowdown, Amazon's net margin more than tripled in Q3 2023. Over the 9 months of the year, growth was driven by the digital marketplace, AWS and advertising - three divisions accounting for 73% of revenue gains. With US$6 billion in additional sales in 9 months, advertising has overtaken e-commerce and is now hot on the heels of AWS in terms of growth contribution.