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The Different Storefront Is Dead: Shopify Design at the Enterprise
Episode 2838th July 2026 • The Watson Weekly: eCommerce Strategy & News • Watson Weekly
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The era of the weird, different storefront is over. On Shopify, design that converts beats design that surprises.

That is the argument in the third and final episode of our Enterprise Shopify series. Rick Watson sits down with Elara Verret, Chief Digital and Customer Officer at Reitmans, and Isaac Newton, Co-Founder of Pattern (part of Domaine).

Reitmans is a 100-year-old retailer with roughly 400 stores. It moved its flagship onto Shopify in under a year. Elara's own team had scoped that work at two to three years.

The conversation stays specific. Why the enterprise case for Shopify is agility and focus rather than cost cutting. Where customization earns its keep and where it just leaves you a maintenance bill. What happens when merchants start editing the storefront in VS Code and someone has to ask, politely, to turn off their Sidekick access. And the plateau Isaac sees over and over: brands that grew fast three to five years ago, then watched a dozen copycats erase what made them different.

Headless comes up. Both have opinions.

The Big Green Bag Of Promise: Enterprise Shopify Webinar Series is sponsored by Avalara, Domaine, and Pattern.

The Big Green Bag Of Promise: Enterprise Shopify Webinar Series is not sponsored by Shopify.

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