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Canada’s merchandise trade surplus widened to C$4.2 billion in August, up from C$787 million in July, according to Statistics Canada figures reported by The Canadian Press and BNN…
Read the article ↗Most of the talk about AI shopping makes it sound like a one-way street: AI assistants will search, compare and buy, and every store will simply plug in.…
Read article ↗When one company talks about AI shopping, it’s a trend piece. When OpenAI, Google, Shopify and Amazon all talk about it, it’s a pattern. This week a payments…
Read article ↗Amazon’s October 6-7 Prime Big Deal Days wraps up tonight, with heavy discounting reported across kitchen appliances, cleaning appliances, electronics and home products (New York Post). Many sellers…
Read article ↗For years, online selling followed a simple formula: choose the right keywords, rank well, earn the click, convert the visitor. That still works. But a second layer is…
Read article ↗For almost all of e-commerce history, one thing never changed, a human had to be the one who actually pressed buy. Shopify’s Universal Commerce Protocol, co-developed with Google,…
Read article ↗A number most retailers will never read just quietly raised the risk of running a Q4 promotion that loses money the moment you need to restock it. Canada’s…
Read article ↗Amazon just told its own sellers they might never have to open Seller Central again, and that’s a much bigger deal than it sounds. At Amazon Accelerate 2026,…
Read article ↗Somewhere out there, a customer’s Alexa is already waiting to buy your product the second it hits a price you haven’t even thought about yet. Amazon’s Prime Big…
Read article ↗Canadians haven’t stopped spending this year, they’ve just gotten a lot more deliberate about where the money goes. Canadian consumer spending data throughout 2026 shows selectivity, not collapse,…
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