The Paradise Report

Welcome to today’s Paradise Report, your daily read on what small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs need to know across ecommerce, AI, and the lifestyle beat. I’m Trevor, and over at Ecommerce Paradise we run our own high-ticket stores, build them for clients, and teach this stuff. Today’s roundup is heavy on platform moves and […]

Welcome to today’s Paradise Report. This is the daily roundup of what small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs need to know across ecommerce, AI, and the lifestyle beat. I run my own stores, I build stores for clients, and I spend most of my year outside the US, so the news I track is the […]

Welcome to today’s Paradise Report for Thursday, May 14, 2026. This is the daily roundup on what small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs need to know across ecommerce, AI, and the lifestyle beat. Today’s stories run the gamut, from Amazon turning the screws on FBA returns to Vietnam finally opening the door for nomads with […]

Welcome to today’s Paradise Report. This is the daily roundup on what small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs need to know across ecommerce, AI, and the lifestyle beat. We’ve got real breaking news today, so I want to lead with it. 🚨 BREAKING TODAY: eBay’s board rejected GameStop’s $56 billion takeover bid Tuesday, calling Ryan […]

Welcome to The Paradise Report for Monday, May 11, 2026. Today is the day the agentic commerce layer crossed a real line. AWS, Coinbase, and Stripe shipped Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, which gives AI agents the ability to make autonomous USDC stablecoin micropayments settling in about 200 milliseconds. Hotels, travel reservations, and merchant payments are […]

Welcome to The Paradise Report for Friday, May 8, 2026. Heavy operator-liability news day. Etsy reset Purchase Protection (BREAKING, May 7). TikTok Shop forced-return rule live. Amazon Buy for Me backlash widening to 180+ stores. GPT-5.5 Instant default ChatGPT. Google AI Overviews now 48% of queries. Thailand proposed 2-year remittance grace period. Bali biometric extensions […]

Welcome to The Paradise Report for Thursday, May 7, 2026. Today is a meaningful day for anyone running or building a small ecommerce business, and a meaningful day for those of you who run your operations from anywhere on the planet. Amazon just turned itself into a third-party logistics provider with a launch most operators […]

Welcome to The Paradise Report for Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Today is a heavy news day. GameStop dropped a 55 and a half billion dollar unsolicited bid on eBay over the weekend and eBay’s board is reviewing it this week. Shopify’s Q1 actuals printed yesterday and the stock cratered 7.2 percent on the outlook. Walmart […]

Welcome to The Paradise Report for Tuesday, May 5, 2026. Today is a day that genuinely matters for ecommerce operators. Shopify is reporting first quarter 2026 earnings before the bell, and that print is going to set the tone for every Shopify operator’s Q2 plan. Meta is hard-deprecating two of the most-used Advantage Plus API […]

Welcome to The Paradise Report, the daily rundown for small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs published every morning at Ecommerce Paradise. Today is Monday, May 4, 2026, and there is a lot to digest. Three big platform changes hit ecommerce operators directly, two AI stories shift how customers discover and buy, and two lifestyle updates […]