Omnichannel Playbook for Beauty Brands
I met recently with a spa manager in California to introduce her to a French beauty brand….
Retail Media’s Margin Opportunity
Retail media may provide ecommerce retailers with high-margin revenue from an audience they have paid to attract….
New Ecommerce Tools: September 16, 2026
This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes updates on international shipping, cross-border payments,…
Amazon catches up with Boozt in Denmark
Fifteen percent of active Danish online shoppers bought something from Amazon in the past six months. This…
ECDB: Bol widens lead over Amazon.nl
Bol increased its lead over Amazon last year, according to a new ECDB ranking of ecommerce in…
Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API
Firefox 151 recently shipped the Document Picture-in-Picture API. This isn’t the same thing as the (regular?) Picture-in-Picture…
Double-Digit Ecommerce Growth Returns
U.S. ecommerce sales enjoyed a second consecutive quarter of double-digit growth in 2026, resembling pre-pandemic patterns. The…
New Ecommerce Tools: August 19, 2026
My rundown this week of new services for merchants includes updates on page builders, warehousing, dropshipping, real-time…
3 AI Prompts for Google Ads
Artificial intelligence is core to Google Ads, but for advertisers, account management goes beyond the platform. Powerful…
USPS Prioritizes Revenue over Volume
Still in the midst of a liquidity crisis, the U.S. Postal Service needs more revenue and may…
2026 State of CSS, Devs Surveys
Two things: The State of CSS is obviously one I’m always stoked to see. But this year’s…
House Bill Reshapes Marketplace Policies
Proposed legislation introduced last week in the U.S. House of Representatives could give marketplace sellers new protections…
German ecommerce increases 4.3% in first half 2026
Online turnover in Germany has increased 4.3 percent in the first half of the year, compared to…
Drupal 11.4.0 is now available
The fourth feature release of Drupal 11 is another performance breakthrough. Using only a third of the…
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…
Why Isn’t My 3D View Transition Working?
If you have played around with view transition a bunch, you may have noticed that 3D transitions…
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…
What’s !important #11: 3D Voxel Scenes, Flying Focus, CSS Syntaxes, and More
If 3D voxel scenes (that you can style), flying focus animations, or new CSS syntaxes sound like…
Chord Commerce CEO on Pivoting to Data
When he and I last spoke, in 2021, Bryan Mahoney had co-founded Chord, an ecommerce platform that…
Fulfilmentcrowd acquires Fulfilment.nl to accelerate European growth
fulfilmentcrowd, the tech-led logistics provider backed by private equity firm Palatine, has acquired Fulfilment.nl, a Dutch ecommerce logistics…
Selling to EU customers? What to know about the new withdrawal link requirement
This post is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. For guidance specific…
France: 75% of imported products did not meet EU rules
The consumer protection authority in France announced that three quarters of imported products from major online platforms…
Choosing the best WooCommerce hosting in 2026: A practical guide
The right host is invisible. Your checkout loads fast, your site stays up during the campaign spike,…
WooCommerce 10.7: 51% fewer queries, a real fulfillment API, one important cache fix
The latest version of WooCommerce cuts the database queries to load one order management page in half….