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Back in July we wrote about where Carriyo Intelligence was heading, and the short version was that the reporting inside Carriyo was going to move beyond operational dashboards into questions a finance or CX lead would actually ask. Since then two of those reports have been built end to end, and w...
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Most eCommerce operations have solved the first delivery-data problem. If a customer asks where their parcel is, someone can look it up, and usually the customer can look it up themselves on a tracking page. Ten years ago that was hard. Today it is table stakes, and the question that comes up in ...
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On Wednesday we looked at what a year without de minimis actually changed: over $1 billion in newly collected US duties, e-commerce airfreight lanes still repricing, the EU following suit in July, and a statutory endpoint already fixed for 2027. The regulatory story is, in a sense, over — the dut...
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Just over a year ago — on August 29, 2025 — the United States suspended duty-free de minimis treatment for imports worldwide. The $800 exemption that had quietly underwritten a decade of cross-border eCommerce growth stopped applying to any parcel entering the US, and one of the largest natural e...
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On Wednesday we lined up what retail's top performers are verifiably doing in 2026 — selling speed and certainty as a product, turning stores into fulfillment networks, making returns surgical, re-localizing cross-border, engineering peak, and becoming legible to AI shoppers — and found the commo...
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Every earnings season tells the same story with new numbers: the gap between retail's top performers and everyone else keeps widening. What's striking, when you line up what the winners are actually doing, is how little of it happens before the buy button. The strategies compounding into market s...
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On Wednesday we made the case that the holiday cut-off date is the most binding promise a brand publishes all year. This piece is about the harder half of that contract: keeping it.
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Every December, eCommerce brands publish the most binding sentence they will write all year: "Order by December 19 for delivery before Christmas."
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On Wednesday we mapped where agentic commerce actually stands: AI influenced $262 billion of online holiday sales [1], AI-referred retail traffic now converts 54% better than every other channel [2], and the buying protocols — ACP, UCP — are consolidating fast. We also named the gap: every one of...
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The 2025 holiday season settled the question of whether agentic commerce is real. Salesforce's holiday data put AI-influenced online sales at $262 billion between November 1 and December 31 — 20% of global online sales — inside a record $1.29 trillion season. Retailers operating their own shopper...
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On Wednesday we made the industry case: the delivery section of checkout is one of the highest-leverage revenue surfaces in eCommerce — where 40% of reasoned cart abandonment traces to extra costs and 20% to slow delivery [1], where free-shipping thresholds move average order value by 15–20% [2],...
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Every serious eCommerce team A/B tests. Product pages, headlines, imagery, button copy, payment methods — all of it runs through an experimentation program, because fractions of a percentage point of conversion compound into real money.