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It is Saturday morning, May 30, 2026, and if you run a Shopify store you woke up to a decision you did not have a month ago. Shopify’s Summer ’26 Edition shipped Horizon, a brand new theme system, and it is the biggest change to how Shopify themes are built since Online Store 2.0 landed […]
Shopify Horizon: Should You Ditch Your Premium Theme? Read More »
As of midday Friday, May 29, 2026, the most quietly important story for sellers this week is not a new fee or a flashy AI feature. It is a rule change about money leaving your account without a product ever coming back. On May 22, Amazon updated its Customer Service by Amazon program, known as
Amazon Just Stopped Refunding Buyers Who Keep Your Stuff Read More »
Welcome to today’s Paradise Report, the daily run-through of what small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs actually need to know across ecommerce, AI, and the lifestyle beat. Some of you are reading this from a desk in Ohio, some from a cafe in Da Nang, and the news today hits both groups. This is the
The Paradise Report — Thu, May 29: Vietnam Floats 10-Year Visa Read More »
As of Friday morning, May 29, 2026, the way you get in and out of Europe is officially a different game, and if you run an online store from the road like a lot of people in my world do, this one matters more than another Amazon fee tweak. The EU’s biometric Entry/Exit System, the
How Europe’s New Border System Hits Nomad Sellers Read More »
At 6:32 this morning, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection refund number jumped from $35 billion to $85 billion in a single court filing, and a lot of ecommerce operators still don’t know they have a claim sitting on the table. This is one of the largest refund processes the federal government has ever attempted,
$85B in Tariff Refunds: Claim Yours Before You Lose It Read More »
It’s Thursday, May 28, 2026, evening, and we have to talk about what AWS quietly dropped yesterday because it changes the math for every operator running a high-ticket store. AWS launched the Agentic Shopping Assistant, an off-the-shelf SaaS that licenses the same conversational AI stack Amazon uses to drive almost $12 billion in incremental sales
AWS Sells Amazon’s AI Shopping Tech To Other Stores Read More »
Welcome to today’s Paradise Report, Thursday, May 28, 2026, your daily read on what small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs need to know across ecom, AI, and the lifestyle beat. Today’s lineup is heavy. Google’s May Core Update is gutting position 1 organic clicks down to 11%. TikTok Shop just turned rejected returns into a
The Paradise Report — Thu, May 28: Google CTR Cratered to 11% Read More »
If you run a Shopify store and you woke up this morning without checking what changed at your checkout overnight, you are already 24 hours behind. Yesterday, May 27, 2026, Shopify quietly flipped the default ON for a feature called Managed Payment Methods. Every merchant on Shopify Payments is now running it, whether they opted
Shopify Just Auto-Enabled Managed Payments For Every Store Read More »
It is 7 in the morning here on Thursday, May 28, 2026, and the news that should be making every dropshipping operator pay attention dropped quietly last Friday from a Dentons legal alert tracking what the Federal Trade Commission has been doing for the past eight weeks. The short version: the FTC is in the
FTC Made-in-USA Sweep Just Put Sellers on Notice Read More »
It’s Wednesday, May 27, 2026, midday Eastern, and Amazon just collapsed two of its biggest AI products into one agentic shopping assistant that does not just answer questions about Amazon listings. It searches across the open web, builds custom comparison guides that include your competitors AND your store, and can execute purchases on behalf of
Amazon Killed Rufus and Pointed Alexa at Your Store Read More »
