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  1. How Best Buy, Gap, And Dick's Are Deploying AI Across The Retail Stack: What It Means For Your Store
    Insight | June 10, 2026

    How Best Buy, Gap, And Dick's Are Deploying AI Across The Retail Stack: What It Means For Your Store

    9 min read - Three major retailers just described, in unusually specific terms, how AI is reshaping their businesses from the inside out. During their Q1 2026 earnings calls, Best Buy, Gap, and Dick's Sporting Goods each detailed AI investments that go well beyond chatbots and product recommendations. For eCommerce merchants evaluating their own AI roadmaps, these...

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  2. Hyvä's Elasticsuite 1.2.8
    Hyvä | June 09, 2026

    Hyvä's Elasticsuite 1.2.8 Brings Magento 2.4.9 Compatibility: What It Means For Your Search Experience

    8 min read - The Hyvä ecosystem continues to mature with a release that, while seemingly incremental, addresses a critical compatibility gap for merchants planning their Magento 2.4.9 upgrade. The Magento2-smile-elasticsuite compatibility module has been updated to version 1.2.8, delivering first-time support for both Magento 2.4.9 and ElasticSuite 2.12.x...

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  3. Speed Is the New Loyalty: What Walmart's Three-Hour Delivery Milestone Means for Every eCommerce Merchant
    Insight | June 08, 2026

    Speed Is the New Loyalty: What Walmart's Three-Hour Delivery Milestone Means for Every eCommerce Merchant

    13 min read - Walmart's latest earnings call delivered a number that should be on every eCommerce operator's whiteboard: over 36% of store-fulfilled deliveries now arrive in three hours or less. The sub-hour tier is growing fastest of all. "We can now reach approximately 60% of the U.S. population in 30 minutes or less,"...

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  4. Hyvä's i18n 1.4.0 wave: What 18 locale releases mean for international Magento merchants
    Hyvä | June 05, 2026

    Hyvä's i18n 1.4.0 wave: What 18 locale releases mean for international Magento merchants

    11 min read - On 1 June, Hyvä Themes shipped a coordinated release across its entire internationalisation (i18n) portfolio, bumping 18 locale packages to version 1.4.0 in a single day. If you are running Hyvä on an international Magento store, this is one of the most significant translation updates in recent memory, and it deserves your attention. ...

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  5. ecommerce tools
    Insight | June 04, 2026

    13+ eCommerce Tools and Right Stack for Your Business Stage

    68 min read - eCommerce tools are software applications that help businesses build, run, and grow an online store, covering everything from storefronts and payments to marketing, inventory, and customer support. Together, they form what people call your eCommerce stack. Now, we don't want to overwhelm you with a list...

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  6. Costco's $500 Million personalisation playbook: What every eCommerce merchant can learn
    Insight | June 03, 2026

    Costco's $500 Million personalisation playbook: What every eCommerce merchant can learn

    10 min read - Costco just proved, with hard numbers, that personalisation isn't a nice-to-have; it's a revenue engine. The warehouse club's CFO, Gary Millerchip, revealed on their Q3 2026 earnings call that personalised product recommendation carousels contributed ...

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  7. The Great Consumer Squeeze: Why Discount Retailers Are Thriving While Mid-Market Brands Stumble
    Insight | June 03, 2026

    The Great Consumer Squeeze: Why Discount Retailers Are Thriving While Mid-Market Brands Stumble

    8 min read - Consumer sentiment has plunged to a record low, and the ripple effects are reshaping eCommerce strategy in real time. If you are a merchant operating in the mid-market, the data from the past week should be a wake-up call, and the diverging fortunes of Dollar Tree and Gap Inc.'s Old Navy tell a story every eCommerce professional needs to understand...

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  8. Hyva Checkout Adds Airwallex
    Hyvä | June 02, 2026

    Hyva Checkout Adds Airwallex: Why Global Payment Flexibility Matters More Than Ever for Magento Merchants

    8 min read - On 28 May 2026, Hyvä released a new checkout integration that Magento merchants selling internationally should pay close attention to: the Hyvä Checkout Airwallex integration, now at version 1.0.0. While this might look like a routine payment gateway addition, it represents something more significant in the context of the Hyvä ecosystem's...

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  9. Mage-OS 3.0 Is Here: What The Magento Community's Biggest Release In Years Means For Your Store
    Magento | June 01, 2026

    Mage-OS 3.0 Is Here: What The Magento Community's Biggest Release In Years Means For Your Store

    10 min read - The Mage-OS project has reached a major milestone. On 18 May 2026, the community-driven Magento distribution released Mage-OS 3.0 - a version number that signals this is no longer a mirror or a patch. It is a platform making bold moves on its own terms. Combined with Hyvä Theme's continued evolution and ...

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  10. Best Magento POS for iPad
    Magento | June 01, 2026

    Best Magento POS for iPad: Detailed guide to choose the best one

    45 min read - A Magento POS for iPad, point-of-sale software that runs on iPad devices, frees businesses from being confined to a clunky desktop POS system. This POS solution gives users more flexibility and mobility to process sales faster on the counter, at tables, or anywhere outside the stores. Besides, it also comes with many other features to help merchants...

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  11. Shopify CLI 4.0
    Shopify | May 29, 2026

    Shopify CLI 4.0 Arrives With Semantic Versioning And Auto-Updates: What Developers Need To Know

    10 min read - Shopify has released CLI...

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  12. google-ai-search
    Insight | May 28, 2026

    Google's "Preferred Sources" and "Highly Cited" Labels Are Rewriting the Rules of AI-Powered Product Discovery

    9 min read - Google just made its most significant change to AI-powered search visibility since launching AI Overviews, and it has profound implications for how eCommerce merchants get discovered by shoppers. On...

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  13. When Tariff Pricing Backfires: Elf Beauty's Reversal And What It Means For eCommerce Pricing Strategy
    Insight | May 27, 2026

    When Tariff Pricing Backfires: Elf Beauty's Reversal And What It Means For eCommerce Pricing Strategy

    9 min read - Elf Beauty just gave the eCommerce industry a masterclass in what happens when tariff-driven price increases meet consumer reality. The cosmetics brand, which built its reputation on accessible pricing, announced it is reversing some of the price hikes it implemented in response to tariffs and inflation...

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  14. AI Referrals
    Insight | May 26, 2026

    AI Referrals Are A Double-Edged Sword: 98% Repeat Purchase Rate, But One Bad Experience And They're Gone

    11 min read - A new study from Quantum Metric...

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  15. Google Just Rebuilt Search
    Insight | May 25, 2026

    Google Just Rebuilt Search: What The Intelligent Search Box, Universal Cart, And Information Agents Mean For eCommerce

    11 min read - Google dropped a series of announcements at Google I/O 2026 on...

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  16. Shopify's Agentic Storefronts
    Shopify | May 22, 2026

    Shopify's Agentic Storefronts: The Admin Panel That Signals Where Commerce Is Heading

    8 min read - Among Shopify's recent changelog updates, one entry stands out - not because it is the most technically complex, but because of what it signals for the future of eCommerce. Shopify has introduced a dedicated section in the admin called ...

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  17. Agentic Commerce Just Got Real: What Stripe And Google's Partnership Means For Every eCommerce Merchant
    Insight | May 21, 2026

    Agentic Commerce Just Got Real: What Stripe And Google's Partnership Means For Every eCommerce Merchant

    11 min read - On 13th May, Stripe and Google announced a partnership that allows merchants...

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  18. OpenAI Adds Product Feed Ads To ChatGPT
    Insight | May 20, 2026

    OpenAI Adds Product Feed Ads To ChatGPT: The AI ​​Commerce Advertising Era Just Got Real

    10 min read - On 12th May, OpenAI announced that product catalogue feeds can now power automated advertising inside ChatGPT. For eCommerce merchants and brands, this is a watershed moment - the line between AI-powered search and AI-powered commerce has been permanently blurred. OpenAI is enabling retailers to turn their...

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  19. Younger shoppers trust AI
    Insight | May 20, 2026

    Younger shoppers trust AI more than store associates, with one condition

    10 min read - A new survey from The Harris Poll and Quad reveals a striking generational divide in how consumers approach AI-powered shopping, and a warning signal that eCommerce brands need to take seriously. The numbers tell a clear story 62% of Gen...

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  20. Hyva 1.4.6
    Hyvä | May 19, 2026

    Hyvä 1.4.6: PHP 8.5 Compatibility Arrives Just In Time For The Magento 2.4.9 Upgrade Wave

    9 min read - With Magento 2.4.9 reaching General Availability on 12th May, the ecosystem's attention has rightly focused on PHP 8.4 and 8.5 support, Valkey caching, and the hundreds of bug fixes that make this the most significant Magento release in years. But platform compatibility is only half the equation. If your theme is not ready, your upgrade is not happening...

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