New Ecommerce Tools: June 24, 2026
This week’s rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, generative engine optimization,…
Platform-Switching Tax: The Hidden Cost Every Multi-Platform Seller Pays
You know the drill. You open Shopify in the morning. Switch to Amazon at lunch. Check Instagram’s…
Impulse Buying Taking Backseat to Deliberate Shopping: Report
Shoppers are showing less impulse and greater deliberation when making purchasing decisions these days, according to a…
Build an AI Flywheel for Ecommerce
Ecommerce shops benefit most from AI when it helps make better decisions to improve productivity and profitability….
New Ecommerce Tools: June 17, 2026
Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on…
Prime Day Has Remade the Retail Calendar
After 11 years, Amazon Prime Day has trained shoppers to look for summer sales in much the…
AI Turns Ecommerce Design into Reality
Ecommerce websites consist of themes and templates made with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Executives typically define the…
Creating Memorable Web Experiences: A Modern CSS Toolkit
I love the fact that CSS is finally reclaiming control over visual interactions, taking charge of the…
What Happens When AI Becomes the Buyer?
AI agents are moving beyond assisting with purchases to making them, raising new questions about trust, marketing,…
Merchantee targets Poland and Germany
Agentic marketplace intelligence company Merchantee has raised 1.8 million euros in a funding round. With the capital…
AI Buying Agents Raise New Accountability Questions
Earlier this year, eBay updated its user agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and…
Engineer Quits, Launches Online Art School
Florence Morin is an artist-turned-engineer-turned-entrepreneur. She graduated from Canada’s Polytechnique Montréal in 2013, only to realize she…
Belgian ecommerce worth 18 billion euros
Last year, Belgian consumers spent 18.3 billion euros online. Compared to a year earlier, this is an…
Better Product Images Build Buyer Trust in Resale Marketplaces
As resale marketplaces grow, a platform’s ability to process and verify visuals at the point of upload…
FAQs for Google’s ‘Preferred Sources’
Google’s recently announced “preferred sources” feature is not exactly new. The feature, which allows searchers to designate…
How Content Marketers Misuse GenAI
The best genAI content is verified and scrutinized by humans. Generative AI can make content marketing faster,…
Technical Writing in the AI Age
This isn’t coming out of nowhere: More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a…
How GenAI Platforms Produce Answers
Google’s recent AI optimization guidelines apply only to its search portal with AI Overviews and AI Mode, and…
Ecommerce without Merchant-Owned Carts
Google announced a comprehensive shopping cart that could soon be available across the search giant’s app ecosystem….
Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking
Let’s play a quick game: I’ll show a graph and try to guess what it’s about. Source: Data…
New Ecommerce Tools: May 20, 2026
This installment of our weekly rundown of new services for merchants includes rollouts for quick commerce, SMS…
AI is shifting commerce — here’s what 225 leaders told us they’re betting on
We set up a booth at Stripe Sessions 2026 and asked 225 commerce leaders where agentic commerce…
Allegro enters partnership with OpenAI
Allegro has entered into a partnership with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. The Polish ecommerce company will…