Yandex to Launch Minimarkets, Begins Hiring for New Project

Posted by By Dan Taylor 2 Min Read

Yandex has announced plans to open a series of minimarkets, marking its latest venture into the retail sector. The company has already initiated the hiring process for this new project.

Location and Initial Launch

Several job postings related to the new minimarkets have appeared on recruitment websites, indicating the project’s active development. The address listed for the first store is on 2nd Zvenigorodskaya Street in Moscow, near the premium-class residential complex “Residence Monet.”

According to Shoppers’, the first minimarket is set to open soon, with plans for numerous additional stores to follow in the near future.

Employment Opportunities

The job listings reveal that Yandex is seeking individuals with experience in established retail chains such as Pyaterochka, Krasnoe & Beloe, Perekrestok, Magnit, and Auchan. This preference suggests that Yandex is looking to build a team with strong retail expertise.

Additionally, the postings indicate that the minimarket will feature a café offering fresh baked goods, and positions are available for workers in this area as well.

Future Prospects

The launch of these minimarkets represents a significant expansion for Yandex, leveraging its brand and technology to enter the retail market. With the first store set to open soon and more on the horizon, Yandex aims to establish a strong presence in this new sector.

Source: https://rb.ru/news/yandex-minimarkety/

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Dan Taylor is the founder and editor of International Search Insights (ISI), the publication behind ReadIsi, and a Partner and Head of Innovation (Search & AI) at SALT.agency. He has worked in search for more than a decade, in-house and agency-side, and is regarded as one of the West’s leading voices on search engines beyond Google, including Yandex, Baidu, Naver and Cốc Cốc. On ReadIsi, Dan covers the engines and AI answer platforms that English-language coverage tends to miss: Baidu and ERNIE, Yandex and Alice AI, Naver, Cốc Cốc, Shenma, Sogou, WeChat and Weibo search, plus DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen. He also keeps dated records of documented changes, such as the Yandex, Baidu and Naver algorithm update histories and the DeepSeek, ERNIE and Qwen model update histories. His approach is to take learnings from global search engines and apply logic with a high evidence threshold. A claim needs a source, patterns seen in one market are treated as a hypothesis until they are checked in another, and where the evidence is thin he says so. For brands, that means advice built on what can be shown, with measurement that separates being cited from being chosen. Dan is credited with coining the term “edge SEO” and won the inaugural TechSEO Boost research competition in 2018 for his work on CDN and edge changes for SEO. In 2026 he was credited with coining “Infinite Tail” to describe how keyword research is changing with AI search. He is the author of AI Search Marketing For The Travel Sector, writes for Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land and Travel Marketing Guy, and has advised technology, SaaS, travel and enterprise ecommerce brands, including Cloudflare, GitLab and Airbnb. He has given multiple talks and panels at the International Search Summit in Barcelona, and has also spoken at Optimization Moscow, brightonSEO, Google Search Central Live Deep Dive Asia in Bangkok, Athens SEO and the Asia SEO Virtual Summit 2026, where his talk looked at how Baidu, Naver, DeepSeek, Tencent, Cốc Cốc and Yandex built their own AI answers.
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