Amazon said Tuesday it will hire more than 300,000 US workers for the holidays, about 20% above the 250,000 it targeted in prior years. Read that number against a second one before you plan your December. UPS plans 100,000 seasonal hires, per Reuters, versus 125,000 in 2024, which means Amazon is adding delivery muscle while […]

Attackers are using UpdraftCentral keys stolen from TeamUpdraft’s customer database to install backdoor plugins on WordPress sites, according to BleepingComputer. If your store, blog or agency site runs UpdraftPlus, the backup plugin with more than 4 million active installs, a hidden admin-level account may already exist on it. For the store owners who read Ecommerce […]

Mercury launched Mercury Payroll on Oct. 20, free through Dec. 31, then $100 a month plus $50 for each person paid. If your store banks at Mercury, payroll now lives in the account you already use. For an ecommerce owner the catch is price and geography: Mercury charges $50 per person against $6 to $12 […]

Shopify now shows shoppers a confirmation prompt before sending them from a store to any outside website, according to an October 20 changelog entry. If your high-ticket store sends buyers off-site for financing, quotes, booking calls, spec sheets or a second storefront, that prompt now sits between your shopper and the next step. Here at […]

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency finalized its GENIUS Act stablecoin rule on Oct. 21, and payment stablecoin issuers generally need federal approval to issue from Jan. 18, 2027. If you run a store, this is a back-office rule with three front-office effects: which coins your processor can keep offering, how suppliers get […]

Wayfair’s Way Day sale runs Oct. 24 to 26 with free shipping sitewide and up to 80% off, the company said Oct. 15. If you sell furniture, mattresses, rugs, or any big-ticket home product, your buyer is about to see free shipping and free white glove delivery on many items at a retailer with 21.7 […]

OpenAI will switch on automatic rewrites of ChatGPT ad headlines and landing-page URLs for all self-serve campaigns by Oct. 30 unless advertisers opt out. If you run a high-ticket store with a ChatGPT Ads test live, this changes what a shopper reads under your name and where the click lands. According to OpenAI’s help center, […]