Shopify & Vercel Back AI Agents, eBay Cuts 1,000 Jobs

Shopify and Vercel are rebuilding storefront infrastructure for AI shopping agents — and eBay is cutting a thousand jobs while the business grows. Here's what both moves mean for your strategy. In this episode: Shopify and Vercel have partnered to make merchant storefronts natively accessible to external AI shopping agents, positioning Shopify merchants for agentic commerce without any action required on their part. eBay is eliminating approximately 1,000 roles — 9% of its global workforce — in a second major round of layoffs, despite solid business growth, signalling a deliberate shift toward AI-driven automation over headcount. Austria crossed 16% online retail penetration in 2025, making it a mature ecommerce market and strengthening the case for brands to treat DACH as a unified expansion target rather than sequencing Germany first. The Digital Commerce Daily is a concise briefing for ecommerce, retail media and digital commerce professionals, hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every day. Enjoying the show? A quick rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify helps other marketers find us. Also from Marco & Klara: The FMCG Marketing Daily · The Health Marketing Daily