Shopify dropped its Spring Editions in late June, which is a choice, and the theme is Everywhere, meaning Shopify wants your products discoverable and purchasable inside AI engines, social platforms, and anywhere else a consumer might encounter them. The Ecommosaurus crew digs into what that actually means for SMBs. If AI is describing and selling your product based on database fields, what happens to your brand voice? Is Campaign Autopilot a lifeline for the time-starved small business owner working until 11pm, or is it handing a teenager a credit card and hoping for the best? They also get into Sidekick's meaningful upgrades and a genuinely useful B2B update that Shopify buried under all the AI noise. The crew's overall take: this release is less a set of new technologies and more a restatement of where Shopify is heading. The direction is clear. Whether SMBs are ready to follow is a different question.

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