High-Ticket Dropshipping

Connecticut just became the second state to ban retailers from using your customers’ personal data to set their prices. On the same day, New York’s legislature passed its own version and put it on the governor’s desk. Two days earlier, Colorado’s governor vetoed a broader bill. Maryland got there first back in April. Four states, […]

Welcome to today’s Paradise Report. This is the daily news brief from Ecommerce Paradise for small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs, the people building or running Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and high-ticket dropshipping stores from wherever they happen to be parked this month. Some of you are already living it in Bangkok, Bali, Lisbon, or Medellin.

Walmart just drew a line in the sand for late June. The retailer confirmed its Walmart Deals event will run June 22 through June 28, putting it directly on top of Amazon Prime Day, which runs June 23 through June 26. Target Circle Deal Days lands June 23 through 26. Kohl’s summer sale runs June

A 40-year-old brand most American shoppers have heard of just ran out of road. On Friday, June 12, Sleep Number filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listed $1.3 billion in debt, and signed a deal to merge with Sleep Country Canada in a court-supervised sale. The company that built a category around the adjustable, “what’s your

Welcome to today’s Paradise Report. This is your Monday read on what small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs actually need to know across ecommerce, AI, and the lifestyle beat. No fluff, no hot takes for the sake of it, just the moves that change what you do this week on your store and in your

Harbor Compliance is a genuinely good business formation and compliance service, but it is built for a specific buyer: the operator running multiple entities across multiple states, or a business in a regulated industry like healthcare, construction, or nonprofits. If that is not you, you are probably looking at Harbor Compliance and wondering why the

Most people who talk about high-ticket dropshipping niches are still focused on $1,000 to $2,000 average order values. That approach worked well a few years ago. In 2026, with Google Merchant Center suspending almost every new store before it ever runs a single ad, the model needs to evolve. The operators who are figuring out

Air freight rates out of China are climbing again, and this one lands on your margins whether you ship a single SKU from overseas or not. Spot prices on the busiest Asia lanes have jumped by double digits over the past few weeks, and some routes are running as much as 75 percent higher than

Shopify is dropping its Summer ’26 Editions on June 17 with more than 150 updates, but the one that can actually break your store has a hard date attached to it. Shopify Scripts get fully shut off on June 30, 2026. Editing has been locked since April 15, so the window to make changes is