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by hahahahe 1938 days ago
I still don’t understand why people use Shopify. And on top of that people equate them to being the next Amazon. Boggles my mind.
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As a merchant (not developer) you own your own clients, your storefront and can run seamlessly IRL and online on Shopify - at least thats the pitch. Shopify doesn't suggest to your clients to go buy from another merchant.

In the case of Amazon you own nothing so as a merchant you are thrown into a marketplace where Amazon controls everything and Amazon can take your best products and then make knock offs of them and undercut your sales. Totally different companies - not in the same ball park (Amazon is way bigger then Shopify, don't fall for the false narrative)

Because for all of their faults, it's dead simple to get your on store up and running.