Remember when Amazon launched as an online bookseller with Jeff Bezos and his friends fulfilling the orders themselves in his garage? Little did they know at the time that 27 years later, Chinese behemoths would enter the scene with multi-billion dollar budgets to...

Before we get started today I want to take a moment and wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my DAD, who turns 73 years old today! Pop is my #1 fan of this newsletter and has read every edition start to finish since I launched in Jan 2021. Although he's never sold a product...

What happens when tech companies get so big it creates an uneven playing field for startups? Whose responsibility is it to eradicate forced labor in the international economy?  Is Elon Musk's X unfit to hold a banking license? How much more will Amazon increase...

Can two rival e-commerce juggernauts become frenemies? Is Walmart taking pages out of Amazon's playbook? Do merchants really need to pay higher credit card processing fees? Would you pay for Facebook if it meant no ads? Answers to all these questions and more in...

Huge week for IPOs and seed rounds! While venture capital has tightened up in the past year and companies have been too scared to go public, Instacart, Klaviyo, and Arm have decided to get the ball rolling again. I also cover big changes to TikTok's e-commerce...

Are Google and other big tech companies tracking kids' browsing activities (again)? Or is Adalytics up to its old antics of creating clickbait allegations?  Should Amazon sellers be charged a fee for NOT using Amazon's fulfillment service? Can AI technology...

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A big welcome to our 465 new subscribers this week! Hello! Hola! Moshi moshi! Shopifreaks is experiencing tremendous growth lately, and I owe it all to you, my readers. Thank you for continuing to share my newsletter with your colleagues each week and also for your...

A big welcome to our 315 new readers this week! Shopifreaks is growing, growing, growing, and the timing is perfect because I'm currently in the process of onboarding new sponsors. 😂 As you might recall, my one year exclusive sponsorship with BigCommerce came to...

I'll share something personal with you before we begin this week's edition... I'm obsessed with creating a great newsletter! Each week, as I begin to look back at all the e-commerce news I've compiled during the previous seven days, I experience the same fear -- that...