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Articles, podcast episodes, and insights from the world of e-commerce.
Nothing here comes from an automated feed. Brent Peterson picks each story, reviews each post and publishes it, from podcast episodes to press news and industry research.
AI Promises the Output Without the Work with Aaron Sheehan of OroCommerce
Aaron Sheehan, VP of Strategy and Partnerships at OroCommerce, on why AI has not solved the old problems in B2B, why agents are pointed inward and not...
scandiweb Launches Expedio to Cut Magento Server Response Times Without a Rebuild
scandiweb has launched Expedio by ReadyMage, a performance layer for Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that speeds up the server side of a store...
Email Is the Signal Agents Will Weigh with Ose Amiegheme of Intuit Mailchimp
Ose Amiegheme, who leads email product at Intuit Mailchimp, on why owned channels matter more as paid acquisition costs climb and search shifts to LLM...
Constructor Adds Stripe Checkout Inside Its Onsite Shopping Agents
Constructor has launched Agentic Checkout, which puts Stripe payments inside the AI shopping agents that retailers run on their own sites and apps. A...
Product Data Is the Source the Agents Read with Ben Riggle of Channable
Ben Riggle of Channable on the difference between agentic discovery and agentic checkout, why product data is the source agents and LLMs rely on, the...
The Five-Legged Stool with Ethan Giffin of The B2B eCommerce Agency
Ethan Giffin of The B2B eCommerce Agency, formerly Groove Commerce, on why manufacturers and distributors ask for a website and need alignment between...
Your New Customer Is Not Human with Adam Fabian and Jacy Davis of Crimson Agility
Adam Fabian and Jacy Davis of Crimson Agility on why a new customer is not human, how agentic commerce starts on the other side of the trust fence, an...
Shoptalk Fall 2026 Wraps in Nashville as AI Agents Head Toward 20% of Holiday Ecommerce Traffic
Shoptalk's first Nashville edition closed with agentic commerce, everyday value, loyalty and community leading the agenda, and Salesforce research sho...
Retail Is Detail with Tom Sieger and Timo Weltner of NETFORMIC
Tom Sieger and Timo Weltner of NETFORMIC on solving regulated-market complexity in the data model, a pricing engine that found two ways a customer was...
We Thought It Was Us with Karthik Chidambaram of DCKAP
DCKAP founder and CEO Karthik Chidambaram on turning a hard Prophet 21 integration into a product and building an ERP-first integration platform, reco...
Live from Shoptoberfest with Sebastian Hamann from Shopware
Shopware co-founder and CEO Sebastian Hamann talks about starting the company at fifteen, opening the source, and learning the US market, recorded at...
One in Three Gen Z Adults Identify as Religious, the Highest of Any Generation
The Harris Poll's Gen Z & Religion Report surveyed 2,136 US adults. One in three Gen Z adults identify as religious, the highest share of any gene...