President Donald Trump said Friday he will not ban U.S. diesel exports, which leaves diesel near $6.37 a gallon as Old Dominion’s 4.9% LTL rate increase takes effect Monday. If you sell furniture, fitness equipment, outdoor gear, or anything else that ships on a pallet, this is your freight bill. The export ban was the […]
No Diesel Export Ban, But LTL Rates Rise Oct. 5 Read More »
The U.S. economy added just 29,000 jobs in September, and traders now see an October Fed rate hike as unlikely, according to Fox Business and FXStreet. I write for store owners at Ecommerce Paradise, and for you the headline hides the real story. The Fed raised rates on September 16, 16 of 19 officials expect […]
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Google Ads will begin attaching promotions pulled from advertisers’ websites to eligible campaigns on Oct. 12, with the setting on by default, Search Engine Land reported on Oct. 2. If you run a high-ticket store on Shopify and your Google Ads account has a linked location asset, a banner on your site can become an […]
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Texas Comptroller Don Huffines signed an executive order on September 30 directing his agency to stop taxing marketplace seller fees as data processing services. If you run a high-ticket Shopify store and also list products on Amazon, eBay, Etsy or Walmart, those platforms have been adding Texas sales tax on top of your commissions, listing […]
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Ecommerce Paradise published 8 breaking stories today, and the biggest is Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days starting October 6. This roundup is for ecommerce store owners, especially high-ticket Shopify operators, who want the facts, why each one matters and one action per story. 1. Prime Big Deal Days Start Oct. 6: What Store Owners Do […]
Paradise Report Oct 2: 8 Ecommerce Stories to Know Read More »
Stripe agreed on Sept. 30 to acquire Parafin, the embedded lender that has extended $3 billion in credit to about 60,000 small businesses. If you take card payments through Stripe, or you borrow against your sales through any software platform, the company underwriting that money is changing hands. For the high-ticket store owners I write […]
Stripe Buys Small-Business Lender Parafin Read More »
Shopify’s scheduled merchant rollout of market-driven shipping began Oct. 1, per its developer documentation, and every qualified store moves by July 1, 2027. If you sell big-ticket goods, your freight logic probably lives in delivery profiles: oversize rates, liftgate fees, residential surcharges, free-shipping carve-outs for specific products. That setup is moving into Markets, and the […]
Shopify Moves Shipping Rates Into Markets Starting Oct. 1 Read More »
Google added new examples to its Destination Not Working ad policy on September 30, and one 403 error served to its AdsBot crawler can keep ads disapproved. Google says the update clarifies the policy and does not change enforcement, according to its Ads Policy Help Center announcement. For an ecommerce owner it still matters. The […]
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Walmart plans to spend more than $300 million on a new Ohio fulfillment center built for televisions, furniture and other oversized goods, the company said Sept. 28. If you run a high-ticket store that sells sofas, TVs, patio sets or anything else that ships on a pallet, the biggest retailer in the country just bought […]
Walmart Builds $300M Ohio Hub for Furniture and TVs Read More »
Microsoft Advertising stopped letting advertisers add a Max CPC cap to new non-portfolio campaigns on October 1, 2026. If you run Bing Search or Shopping ads for a high-ticket store, which is who we write for at Ecommerce Paradise, the price ceiling that kept one expensive click cluster from eating a margin is gone on […]
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