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1. [READ] Strategic Planning for Ecommerce Businesses

• Are you doing any sort of strategic planning?
• Strategic planning replaces reactive decisions with clarity, discipline, and adaptability for ecommerce growth.
• Simple frameworks align vision, goals, and profit plans.
• Consistent planning rhythms help ecommerce brands scale deliberately and confidently.

2. [READ] Shopify Launches Agentic Storefronts

• Shopify stores can now sell directly inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Copilot conversations.
• One setup syndicates catalog, pricing, and inventory across AI channels with attribution back to Shopify.
• Merchants keep checkout, customer ownership, and brand control.

3. [READ] Consumers are feeling gloomy about the economy. Here’s why they’re spending anyway

• 203 million shoppers hit stores and websites Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, highest turnout in at least nine years.
• Holiday sales growth driven more by higher prices; Salesforce saw prices up 6%, volumes up just 1% in the U.S.
• PwC now expects holiday spending to rise 3–4% year over year, reversing a projected 5% decline.

In Other News

[READ] How to maximize the bigger SALT deduction for 2025 under Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’

• SALT deduction cap rises to $40,000 in 2025, up from $10,000, benefiting high-income owners.
• Benefits skew toward higher-earners who itemize.
• Deduction phases out after $500K modified adjusted gross income.

[READ] EU to End De Minimis with Flat Customs Fee in 2026

• €3 per-package customs fee hits non-European Union (EU) ecommerce shipments under €150 starting July 1, 2026.
• EU saw 4.6 billion low-value parcels in 2024; 90%+ from China, pressuring customs and margins.
• The EU also plans to enact a separate handling fee on low-value parcels in November of 2026.

[VISUALIZE] Mapped: Every State’s Share of U.S. GDP

Let's wrap up with some eye candy and a visualization of the share of U.S. gross domestic product by state.

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