‘Expanding into Germany takes more than selling on Amazon’
While Amazon has been the biggest marketplace in Germany for years, other local platforms have recently increased…
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…
Snapchat Ads for WooCommerce: Reach the shoppers who ask their friends before buying
Let me tell you about the moment I realized how Snapchat ads work. I watched a shopper…
Build an AI Flywheel for Ecommerce
Ecommerce shops benefit most from AI when it helps make better decisions to improve productivity and profitability….
DHL EU suspension hits UK online shops
Customers of DHL Globalmail in the United Kingdom will soon no longer be able to send parcels…
New Ecommerce Tools: June 17, 2026
Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on…
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…
Belgian ecommerce worth 18 billion euros
Last year, Belgian consumers spent 18.3 billion euros online. Compared to a year earlier, this is an…
Another Stab at the Perfect CSS Pie Chart… Sans JavaScript!
Recently, Juan Diego Rodríguez published an excellent article exploring how far CSS can be pushed to build a semantic…
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…
offset-path
The offset-path property in CSS defines a movement path for an element to follow during animation. This…
What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More
What’s !important #12 talks about the old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new…
How Content Marketers Misuse GenAI
The best genAI content is verified and scrutinized by humans. Generative AI can make content marketing faster,…
WooCommerce 10.8: Stable, faster, and ready for WordPress 7.0
WooCommerce 10.8 includes compatibility updates, performance improvements, and a handful of small fixes that shoppers will feel…
What Foreign Merchants Miss in India
India’s Unified Payments Interface is a government-backed peer-to-peer infrastructure launched in 2016. It allows seamless payments between…
Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements
In Part 1, we covered the gotchas that bite you first: the deprecated meta tag that silently…
How GenAI Platforms Produce Answers
Google’s recent AI optimization guidelines apply only to its search portal with AI Overviews and AI Mode, and…
Digital Catalogs Become Adaptive Commerce Tools
Many digital catalogs still prioritize visual design over shopper behavior, limiting their ability to drive conversions. Digital…
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…