10 min read - Shopify has taken a significant step towards securing the relationship between merchants and the partners they rely on. Starting 9 July 2026, Shopify Partners can, and soon must, complete identity verification before requesting collaborator access to merchant stores. As the ...

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10 min read - A striking statistic emerged from retail industry research highlighted by Retail Dive...

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9 min read - The National Retail Federation's latest forecast says back-to-school spending is set to reach record highs in 2026. At the same time, nearly two-thirds of consumers have already started shopping for the season, and affordability is their number one concern. If that sounds contradictory, welcome to the paradox defining modern retail. The numbers...

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10 min read - On 10 July 2026, Hyvä released theme-module 1.5.2 and 1.4.10, default-theme 1.5.2 and 1.4.10, and the corresponding default-theme CSP variants. The releases bring fixes for storefront behaviour and development workflows, with different changes on the 1.5.x and 1.4.x branches. Here is what changed and what merchants should check when planning an...

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11 min read - Search Engine Land published a deep dive this week on hydration and SEO that every eCommerce team should read carefully. While the concept of hydration, the process by which server-rendered HTML becomes interactive in the browser, has been a developer concern for years, its implications for search visibility have never been more significant...

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14 min read - Adobe provides July 2026 isolated patch files for the applicable Adobe Commerce and Magento components. The files you need depend on your store’s release line and installed...

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10 min read - Shopify has quietly shipped two changes to its Flow automation platform that solve real, persistent pain points for developers building on the ecosystem. While these updates will not make headlines, they represent a meaningful shift in how Shopify treats the developer experience around workflow automation, and they have practical implications for every...

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10 min read - A convergence of data points from the past 48 hours paints a picture that eCommerce merchants can no longer ignore: AI-powered platforms are rapidly replacing traditional search as the primary discovery mechanism for products, tools, and brands. The implications are profound, immediate, and largely underestimated. ...

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10 min read - Shopify has just tightened the screws on one of the most persistent problems in its ecosystem: fake and incentivised app reviews. The ...

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10 min read - Google has confirmed it is investigating reports of reviews going missing from Google Business Profiles, a problem that has been simmering since late 2025 but escalated sharply in early July. As ...

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8 min read - Two pieces of research published on July 2 paint a detailed, and somewhat uncomfortable picture of how AI is fundamentally reshaping product and brand discovery. When read together, they form a clear directive for eCommerce merchants: the discovery landscape is shifting beneath your feet, and the brands that survive will be the ones that own their data...

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10 min read - Amazon's Prime Day just generated $26.4 billion in US online retail spend across four days in June, a 9.3% increase over last year, according to ...

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10 min read - If you work with Hyvä Theme on Magento, you may have encountered a styling mismatch: an editor adds Tailwind classes to a CMS block, but those classes are absent from the theme’s compiled CSS. The content appears on the storefront without the intended styling. In late June 2026, Hyvä released...

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10 min read - Shopify dropped its Spring '26 Edition on 17 June, and with over 150 updates packed into a single release, it would be easy to lose the...

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11 min read - In a week where the eCommerce industry is still processing the surreal spectacle of Allbirds, once valued at $4 billion, completing its transformation into an AI infrastructure company called Smartbird, Reformation has filed for an IPO that tells the exact opposite story. And it might be the most important narrative correction the direct-to-consumer...

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11 min read - Walmart agreed on 24 June 2026 to acquire connected TV (CTV) advertising platform Vibe.co, reportedly for $1.4 billion, in a deal that underscores just how aggressively major retailers are investing in their advertising businesses. Coming just two years after Walmart's $2.3 billion acquisition of TV maker Vizio, this deal represents a strategic doubling-down...

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10 min read - On 17 June 2026, Shopify quietly shipped one of those platform improvements that will not make headlines but will save thousands of hours across its merchant ecosystem: bulk queries now execute up to four times faster for exporting large datasets. For any Shopify merchant or agency running data-intensive operations, including product catalogue syncs...

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9 min read - A new study by SEO researcher Lily Ray has exposed a troubling dynamic in Google's AI Overviews that every eCommerce brand needs to understand: Google is citing brands' own "best of" listicles as sources, but recommending competing products 69% of the time. Combine this with fresh Pew Research data showing 60% of Americans now read AI summaries in search...

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11 min read - Adobe has released version 1.1.81 of the Magento Quality Patches Tool (QPT), continuing its regular delivery of targeted fixes for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source. Individual QPT releases may be relatively small, but they provide development teams with a way to address specific known issues without waiting for a full platform upgrade. ...

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10 min read - On 13 June 2026, eCommerce security firm Sansec disclosed one of the most significant supply chain attacks of the year: a coordinated compromise targeting OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage, three widely used marketing and conversion tools that collectively serve over 1.2 million websites. The malware adds rogue admin accounts and plants hidden...

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