Shopify Winter Editions: DaVinci or AI Hallucination?

eCommerceAI
Written By Rick Watson

TL;DR – What You Need to Know

Sidekick Turns Pro: Let’s be clear, I have become a huge fan of Sidekick. Yes, you could do this in ChatGPT directly yourself through syncs, etc., but Shopify has done an excellent job of integrating an LLM UI that seems to “just get” what the user is asking for. The Sidekick App Marketplace is here.

Agentic Storefront: this is kind of what Shopify announced previously: ChatGPT Instant Checkout. Map once, checkout on the GPTs, collect sales in your Shopify admin.

Shopify Product Network is Sponsored Products Masquerading as Dropship: Put “sponsored” products on your storefront, easily and get paid commissions when checkout happens. Wait, commissions?!? BounceXchange meet universal checkout.

Shopify without a CMO is better at marketing its releases than companies with a CMO. Mostly because they release so much information and many times they are even releasing Youtube videos of their Product people using the release live.

Winter Editions is no different.

Much much more below.

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

https://www.rmwcommerce.com/
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