11 min read - Shopify dropped a significant developer changelog update on 11 June that combines two trends reshaping the platform: AI-assisted development tooling and a hard migration deadline that will affect every app with checkout or customer account UI extensions. If you are a Shopify merchant relying on third-party apps at checkout, or a developer maintaining...

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14 min read - When Hyvä Theme became free and open source in November 2025, one practical question for Magento merchants was how the wider ecosystem of compatibility modules, tooling and integrations would continue to support Hyvä implementations. By June 2026, there was useful evidence of that ecosystem continuing to develop beyond the core Theme...

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11 min read - In a retail landscape defined by consumer belt-tightening, trade-down behaviour, and relentless discounting, Victoria’s Secret just delivered a masterclass in going the opposite direction. Their ...

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10 min read - New research from the Gale agency has surfaced a statistic that should keep every eCommerce marketer awake tonight: 56% of consumers are now comfortable delegating the entirety of their brand communications through AI. Nearly one in three have already instructed an AI assistant to prioritise certain brands over others. ...

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7 min read - Klaviyo Reclaim appears in Hyvä’s checkout integration tracker, which lists a compatibility package for merchants using Hyvä Checkout. If your Magento store relies on Klaviyo, the listing is a useful starting point for reviewing how your checkout and marketing flows work together. It does not, by itself, establish when the...

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11 min read - Shopify released a significant platform update on 17 June 2026, covering headless commerce, AI tooling, storefront architecture, and API performance. Three changes stand out: Hydrogen moves to a framework-agnostic core, opening headless development to any JavaScript framework; Sidekick app extensions reach General Availability with...

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7 min read - OpenAI has opened its ChatGPT Ads Manager beta to UK advertisers, marking the first significant international expansion of what may become one of the most consequential new advertising channels in a decade. With brands like Tesco, Hilton, Hiscox, and Next among the early UK participants, the pilot is moving beyond Silicon Valley experimentation...

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11 min read - Connecticut has become the second US state to enact legislation restricting how retailers can use customer data to set personalised prices. As ...

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9 min read - Shopify has released Hydrogen 2026.4.3, and while it is a patch release, it includes a fix that could silently degrade the visual experience on thousands of headless Shopify storefronts. If you are running a Hydrogen-powered store, this one deserves your immediate attention. The blurry image problem...

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9 min read - On June 16th, 2026, two announcements landed that together paint a picture eCommerce merchants can no longer afford to ignore: Meta launched AI Mode in Facebook search, and Microsoft rolled out significant AI reporting features in Bing Webmaster Tools. Taken separately, they're interesting platform updates. Taken together...

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12 min read - In a single week, three of the most consequential platforms in eCommerce advertising each made a move that, taken individually, would be worth paying attention to. Taken together, they amount to a structural shift: the path from product discovery to purchase is being rebuilt around AI, and every major platform is racing to own a piece of that journey...

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21 min read - Cookie rules are being rewritten, and your store needs to adapt The European Commission's ...

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8 min read - Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicted that bots would outnumber human visitors by 2027. He was wrong. It happened two years early. According to ...

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10 min read - Target just confirmed that its Target Circle Deal Days will run from 23 to 26 June, the exact same dates as Amazon Prime Day 2026. This is not a coincidence. It is a deliberate strategic choice, and one that reveals how fundamentally the economics of retail promotions have shifted. For mid-market eCommerce merchants, the implications extend well beyond...

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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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14 min read - Hyvä released version 1.2.8 of its ElasticSuite compatibility module on 3 June 2026, adding support for Smile ElasticSuite 2.12.x. The update is relevant to merchants planning Magento 2.4.9 upgrades because Smile introduced ...

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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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13 min read - By early June 2026, 18 Hyvä localisation packages had moved to version 1.4.0. If you are running Hyvä on an international Magento store, the update provides a useful new translation baseline across a broad range of European markets and Korean. What was released ...

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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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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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