The Death of the Discount Festival
If you wanted one sentence to explain the new mood of Chinese e-commerce it might be this: discounts are no longer an event. They are the weather. The annual 618 shopping festival…
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Welcome to the Mall of Mirrors
AI shopping is changing the point at which trust gets decided. For years, online shopping scams mostly relied on bad ads, typo-squatted domains, fake reviews and search spam. Now …
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Refunds Faster Than Graffiti Dries
There was a time when the clearest signal of a world-class online retailer was fast shipping. Then it became frictionless checkout. Today a new signal is emerging in the backgroun…
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Cheap Traffic Is Dead: How Smart Brands Are Winning on Amazon, Walmart & TikTok in 2026
For most of the last decade e-commerce growth was largely a traffic game. If you could buy clicks at a reasonable cost, scale advertising, and maintain acceptable conversion rates…
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Welcome to the Age of Political E-commerce
A few years ago most e-commerce founders were obsessed with the same things. Facebook ads. Conversion rates. Email flows. Landing pages. Finding the next winning product before ev…
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From Counterculture to Cart Culture
For a while Temu looked like the cleanest possible rebuke to the Amazon model. No Prime moat. No giant American fulfillment empire. No decades-long seller bureaucracy. No warehous…
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Google Doesn’t Care How Beautiful Your Store Is
The next fight in ecommerce is not just over faster checkout, prettier PDPs or more persuasive homepages. It is over whose product data is the cleanest, clearest, freshest and eas…
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Modern Theft Doesn’t Need a Mask - Just a Barcode
Most people don’t think much about shipping labels.You order something online, get a tracking number, wait a few days and eventually a package shows up at your door. The label stu…
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If voting changed anything they’d make it a subscription
Subscription models have exploded across industries - from streaming video and music to software-as-a-service and food-delivery kits. While convenient this trend has spurred a new…
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You Can’t Deposit ROAS
If you talk to almost any e-commerce operator right now you’ll hear a version of the same story:Performance is “good.”Revenue is growing.Campaigns are scaling.And yet… something f…
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