The WSJ reports Trump and Vance are backing a lame-duck push for the Credit Card Competition Act. Here is what it means for swipe fees, card rewards and your store.

Meta banned ads that link to TikTok and other ByteDance properties in seven countries. Here is what it means for your store and the five checks to run before Black Friday.

EU governments are weighing a draft that would shorten the wait before websites can re-ask visitors who refused cookies from six months to four. According to PPC Land’s October 10 report on Council document 13886/26, ambassadors take the text up on Sunday, October 11. If you sell to European shoppers from a Shopify store, the […]

Tariffs on imported kitchen cabinets and vanities double to 50% on Jan. 1, 2027, and upholstered furniture rises to 30%, unless trade deals change that first. If you run a high-ticket furniture or home-improvement store, the cost change shows up on your supplier’s price sheet before it shows up on your margin report. At Ecommerce […]

Google Ads has no separate AI Mode campaign, according to Search Engine Land, so your existing campaigns already decide whether your products show there. For an Ecommerce Paradise reader selling high-ticket products through Google, that lands on your account today. Search campaigns on broad match, Shopping campaigns and Performance Max can all serve in AI […]

Push Security reported Oct. 9 that a Google ad for “claude mac” routed through Bing and a hacked retailer’s website to a fake Claude installer. If you run a high-ticket store, you or your team installs a tool from a search result every few weeks, and one pasted command can hand an attacker your Shopify […]

Anthropic paused the free Claude Team year and $1,000 API credit for startups on Oct. 9. Here is what store owners should budget and do this week.

A House committee called Webull’s China ties a national security risk on Oct. 7. Robinhood’s 3% transfer offer ends Oct. 16. Here is what store owners should check first.

Drewry’s container index fell 2% to $4,351 on Oct. 8, but Shanghai to Los Angeles is still 30% above July. Here is what it does to your supplier costs.

Google Ads is now showing an “Overlay on videos” setting in Demand Gen that puts text from your assets on top of your video ads. If you run Demand Gen video for a high-ticket store, Google may now print your headlines over your footage, and according to Search Engine Land the setting appears to be […]