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IDC: AI Agents Don't Browse and Don't Respond to Design. They Check Your Live Inventory
A new IDC InfoBrief says unprepared brands could lose access to 25% of their market as shopping agents judge stores on stock data, not storefronts.
OpenAI Puts Product Carousels in ChatGPT Ads, and Your Feed Decides What Fills Them
ChatGPT ads now show multi-product carousels pulled from retailer feeds. OpenAI picks the format, so your stock data picks the products.
Out-of-Stocks Are 65.6% of Retail's $1.7 Trillion Inventory Problem, Not Overstock
IHL Group puts 2026 inventory distortion at $1.7tn, 6.2% of global retail sales. Two-thirds of it is empty shelves, not excess stock.
75% of Restaurants Are Missing From AI Overviews, and One Ohio Bookshop Is There but Marked 'Permanently Closed'
Local Falcon's 10,000-restaurant study finds 74.9% never appear in AI Overviews. Reviews and ratings don't help. What decides who AI answers include.
DoorDash Becomes a Native Shopify Sales Channel, and Your Inventory Data Now Runs Two Storefronts
DoorDash is now a native channel in the Shopify App Store, syncing catalog and stock in real time. What that means when your inventory data goes public.
Google to Shopify Merchants: Don't Reinstall the Google & YouTube App Before the August 18 API Cutover
Google says it will handle the Content API to Merchant API migration itself. Reinstalling the Shopify app risks product ID changes and lost history.
74% of Shoppers Would Trust an AI Agent Over Their Best Friend to Buy for Them, Accenture Finds
Accenture's 25,590-person study finds shoppers ready to hand purchases to AI agents. Agents only recommend what they can verify, stock included.
Jefferies Upgrades Shopify to Buy, Betting It Becomes the Backbone of AI Shopping
Jefferies raised Shopify to Buy with a $160 target, calling it the infrastructure layer for agentic commerce. What agent-ready means for your store.
Tesco Sends Shelf-Scanning Robots Into Its Aisles to Hunt Out-of-Stocks
Tesco is trialling Simbe's Tally robot, which spots up to 10x more out-of-stocks than manual checks. What the robot arms race means for online stores.
Google Search Console Now Shows AI Visibility Data. Here's What Shopify Merchants Can Learn From It
Search Console's new Generative AI section shows where your store appears in AI answers. What the report covers, what it hides, and what to do next.
New Study of 1.2M Shoppers: AI Try-On Users Add to Cart at Nearly Three Times the Rate
DRESSX's study of 1.2M shoppers ties AI try-on to 11% add-to-cart rates and 7x more browsing. The real lesson: friction kills fashion conversion.
Shopify POS 11.8 and 11.9 Land: Cross-Location Stock Lookups, Transfers, and a New Activity Log
Shopify's June POS releases let staff sell stock from any location and receive shipments in POS. What faster moving inventory means for your store.
After Google's May Core Update, Out-of-Stock Pages Are a Quiet SEO Liability
Google's May 2026 core update just settled, and zero-click search keeps rising. Here's how out-of-stock pages quietly cost Shopify stores rankings.
Brickspace Lab's New Catalog Library Shows What Great Shopify Stores Do, and Where Sold-Out Products Belong
Brickspace Lab launched Catalog, a 400+ store design library. Here's what the best Shopify collection pages get right about merchandising.
Shopify's Spring '26 Edition Sends Your Catalog to AI Agents, Making Product Availability the New SEO
Shopify's Spring '26 Edition opens agentic commerce to every developer. Here's why product availability and ordering matter more than ever.
Stockouts Now Cost More Than a Sale: New Prime Day Data Shows a 24% Jump in Lost Revenue
CommerceIQ data ahead of Prime Day 2026 shows out-of-stock losses up 24% even as inventory rose. Here's what it means for collection pages.