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Aug 6, 2026

Shopify Gives Storefronts Agent-Native Controls

WebMCP replaces guessed clicks with structured tools while Shopify keeps checkout on its rails.

Aug 6, 2026

Beauty Bucked the Basket Boom

Eight categories spent more per order while health and beauty baskets quietly shrank

Aug 6, 2026

Etsy Cuts Layers to Chase Growth

A 12% workforce reduction turns Product and Engineering into a faster, flatter operating bet

Aug 6, 2026

Advertising Outgrew The U.S. Economy

Performance media expanded faster than nominal GDP, raising harder questions about returns and rents

Aug 6, 2026

Prime Grows Into a Slower Flywheel

Amazon adds 86 million households while annual membership growth nearly halves worldwide by 2028.

Aug 6, 2026

Amazon Wants the Loading Dock

Dedicated business trucks turn consolidation and receiving instructions into part of Amazon's procurement product

Aug 5, 2026

AI Citations Start At Home

First-party websites still anchor AI answers, while every model weighs supporting evidence differently

Aug 5, 2026

AI Shopping Crosses 100 Million Americans

Monthly genAI shopping use is scaling faster than most retail teams are rebuilding discovery

Aug 5, 2026

Why 2000s Platforms Still Own Attention

US desktop habits reveal how distribution compounds—and where ChatGPT starts to break in

Aug 5, 2026

Court Opens Amazon's Gate to AI Agents

A narrow appeals ruling gives Perplexity room to shop, but not a universal access pass.

Archive

Shopify Gives Storefronts Agent-Native Controls

Beauty Bucked the Basket Boom

Etsy Cuts Layers to Chase Growth

Advertising Outgrew The U.S. Economy

Prime Grows Into a Slower Flywheel

Amazon Wants the Loading Dock

AI Citations Start At Home

AI Shopping Crosses 100 Million Americans

Why 2000s Platforms Still Own Attention

Court Opens Amazon's Gate to AI Agents

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Archive

Shopify Gives Storefronts Agent-Native Controls

Beauty Bucked the Basket Boom

Etsy Cuts Layers to Chase Growth

Advertising Outgrew The U.S. Economy

Prime Grows Into a Slower Flywheel

Amazon Wants the Loading Dock

AI Citations Start At Home

AI Shopping Crosses 100 Million Americans

Why 2000s Platforms Still Own Attention

Court Opens Amazon's Gate to AI Agents

Your smart, no-nonsense guide to the maze of e-commerce

Join 1,000+ other readers and get the week’s best ecommerce & marketplace insights.Always data-driven, always stunning in under five minutes.

MarketMaze

Join 1,000+ other readers and get the week’s best ecommerce & marketplace insights.
Always data-driven, always stunning in under five minutes.