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Vol. 01 · Est. 2026 · Every Sunday
The Sunday briefing for e-commerce operators

Every Sunday, the only five minutes of e-commerce news you actually need.

Each issue: the week's one story that matters, decoded into what it means for your store. A tool worth the trial signup. A tactic you can ship before Friday. That's it.

01

The Lead

The one story reshaping DTC this week, and what it actually means for your P&L, not just the headline.

02

Tool Spotlight

One tool, vetted. What it does, what it costs, and whether a store your size should care.

03

Numbers to Know

The stats worth stealing for your next planning doc, with the context that makes them useful.

04

Tactic of the Week

A concrete play you can implement before Friday. Setup steps included. No theory.

Written like a briefing, not a broadcast.

Every issue is researched from operator-grade sources: retail trade press, platform changelogs, and what's actually working in stores. Then it gets cut to the five minutes that matter.

Issue #2 · The Lead

AI sends you better shoppers. Most stores waste them.

Shoppers referred from AI assistants convert 42% better than other traffic, bounce 27% less, and spend more time on site. That number comes from Adobe research in a sponsored Retail Dive piece, so read it as a vendor's best case. These shoppers arrive having already described their problem to ChatGPT or Gemini, narrowed their options, and clicked through mostly ready to buy. That's the best lead you're going to get. And most Shopify stores are fumbling it at the five-yard line.

The breakage points are predictable. Page speed kills the first wave: 53% of mobile users bail on a site that takes more than three seconds to load, per Google. Every additional second of load time costs roughly 17% in conversions, per PayPal data in the same Retail Dive piece. Then on-site search kills the second wave…

→ The rest lands in your inbox Sunday

We read the press releases, the 40-link roundups, and the "10 trends for 2026" posts, so you never have to.

No sponsor filler No recycled hot takes No 2,000-word intros No gated "premium" tier

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