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Enabling Merchants and Marketplaces in the Cannabis Industry
In 2021, legal cannabis sales (medical and adult-use) across 39 states and the District of Columbia ($24.5 to $27 billion) overshadowed Starbucks ($20.5 billion). If you look at year over year growth in North America, cannabis industry sales won again, posting a 30%...
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The Online Merchant’s Guide to Securing Magento Storefronts
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Hackers are Smart. How to Be Smarter?
It was May 21, 2014. E-commerce juggernaut eBay shocked the world by announcing that a database containing users'...
CDN Costs Going Through the Roof? Seven Ways to Reduce Them.
According to an article in Forbes, 47% of users expect a website to load within 2 seconds. 40% of users will leave a...
A Second in the Life of a Web Request
Welcome back! When an end user out in the real world points their browser to your website, the next 1-3 seconds are...
Ecommerce Holiday Shopping 2022: What to Expect and How to Prepare?
This year will mark a critical U.S. retail milestone, as ecommerce will cross the $1 trillion mark for the first time, according to the latest retail forecast from Insider...
Part 2: Trying Out Headless WordPress: Gatsby
Webscale is a big supporter of going headless, taking your monolithic server application like Magento or WordPress offline and using it to generate a static site. This time we’ll...
Part 1: Trying Out Headless WordPress: WP2Static
Webscale is a big supporter of going headless, turning your monolithic server application like Magento or WordPress into a data source for a “simpler” front-end. In this blog and...
Is Your Ecommerce Store Ready for Cyber Week 2022?
Everyone has a view on what this year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday will look like. Though more and more consumers have shopped early in the past few years due to inventory and...
Online Brand Store or Online Marketplace or Both? How Can Cannabis Merchants Decide?
Many cannabis brands joined the ecommerce bandwagon during the pandemic to ensure their offerings were accessible to customers and patients. The biggest dilemma during this...
The art of loading your Magento store in under 3 seconds
Andrew Bouchard is the Head of Business Development at Ziffity Solutions LLC. Magento is a fully-loaded platform that offers all the essential and advanced features needed to...
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