James Sell @jaysellar

hooked on commerce, politics, and phonics | working on a small-format retail concept jamessell.com Ottawa 🇨🇦 Joined November 2010

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Peter MacKay @PeterMacKay

a year ago

Direct democracy. Giving our citizens choice & a voice to who governs them. Now it’s time to cast our vote. Polls are open from 8:30AM to 8:30PM today Please get out and vote for change.

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Harley Finkelstein @harleyf

a year ago

Reminder that this is still a thing in Canada. We’re going to look back at whoever did this with disbelief in a couple of months I bet.

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Two million Canadians voted on Friday. Extrapolate that like it’s 2021 and you get 96% turnout - obviously wild and not happening. It was Good Friday after all, and people were off. Still, if this keeps up, we could crack 70%. That hasn’t happened since 1984. #ChangeElection

Elections Canada @ElectionsCan_E

a year ago

Preliminary estimates show that near 2M electors voted last Friday on the first day of advance polls. A record number! To all the electors who had to wait in line, thank you for your patience! We’re going to continue to adjust over the next few days to handle the high traffic!

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tobi lutke @tobi

a year ago

I bet she thinks that cookie banners where a really good idea

Juno News @junonewscom

a year ago

Liberal MP Karina Gould says Canadians shouldn’t worry about looming U.S. tariffs because they are “smarter," and more “capable” than Americans. She says Canada will “win this trade dispute.”

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James Sell @jaysellar

2 years ago

@tobi @MacWhackle Civil servants used to advise our gov’t on best policies for the country. Now it’s the gov’t pushing civil servants to create policies to get them re-elected. And when you have a gov’t in desperation mode, the policies get worse and the voices of real experts are ignored

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Alexandra Clark @Clark_al

2 years ago

This is insanity. @stevenmackinnon: <56 hrs til Black Friday & Canada Post is gridlocked in negotiations?! Gov't must intervene. Our Canadian small businesses will suffer otherwise. Last holiday season, our merchants lit up this map with orders. The ’24 strike risks wiping it clean, devastating the economy & crushing small businesses. Why are we creating so much uncertainty for our small businesses? This is what we’ve heard over the last week from our merchants: "This is our busiest time of year and now we are trying to pivot to other couriers at double and triple the cost. Not to mention we have over a hundred packages sitting in limbo, most of which should be delivered to other small businesses to stock their shelves" “As a toy business, 70% of our sales happen in Q4 and the Canada Post strike is preventing us from shipping to rural Canadians and PO Boxes. There are going to be a lot of angry parents and sad kids this holiday season if it is not resolved soon.” "Our strictly online biz has used Canada Post for all domestic shipping for the past 5 years. To compete with the likes of Amazon, we have been giving free shipping to customers and absorbing those costs. Now we are forced to use outside couriers like UPS which is more costly" #cdnpoli

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James Sell @jaysellar

2 years ago

“It makes order meaningless. It erodes the social fabric—the part of society that values integrity and accountability.” 🎯 Merchants of all sizes deserve better in 🇨🇦 & 🇺🇸

StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent

2 years ago

It happened again this morning, and it’s sadly becoming a joke at this point. I walked into Starbucks, and the shelf that just a couple of days ago was full of holiday merchandise for the new season was completely empty. Again. When I asked the barista, they confirmed it:

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Eric Bandholz @bandholz

2 years ago

Fuck ya! We’re winning.

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Rune Madsen @runmad

2 years ago

I'm excited for us to introduce even more ways for merchants to customize Shopify POS to fit their needs. Can't wait to see what partners and merchants build with POS UI Extensions 👀

Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs

2 years ago

Build beyond the basics with our POS customization extensions 💻 • Full screen workflows with Action extensions • Inline info display with Block extensions • Boost efficiency and personalization Build custom POS experiences ↓ shopify.dev/docs/api/pos-u…

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James Sell @jaysellar

2 years ago

No issue with brands that add shipping protection in checkout or subscribe & save on product pages, but choosing to pre-select it is deceitful. These types of practices lower consumer trust and impact all merchants by extension

Rob Freund @RobertFreundLaw

2 years ago

Interesting lawsuit filed today: a consumer brand advertised "free shipping," but it also automatically added paid "shipping protection" to the customer's order, using a pre-selected toggle similar to the one shown below. The class action alleges that the shipping protection

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2 years ago

A complete and utter disgrace on our streets of Toronto, glorifying and celebrating terror as our western values erode to calls for death and destruction. I do not recognize this hate filled Canada, where Jew hatred and terrorist sympathizers go unchecked. Shameful.

Brian Lilley @brianlilley

2 years ago

Listen to the chant. “We don’t want two states! Bring us back to ‘48!” They move from that to “From the river to sea, Palestine will be free.” They are clearly telling you they don’t want Israel to exist, there is no room for Jews in Jerusalem of anywhere else for these guys.

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Miles Lunn 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇱 @mileslunn

2 years ago

@kinsellawarren And I suspect few chosen will actually succeed. Most businesses with good ideas can raise privately and governments generally not good at picking winners and losers. Market for all its imperfection is much better.

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James Sell @jaysellar

2 years ago

@kimurathomas Congrats Thomas! 🙌

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James Sell @jaysellar

2 years ago

@rigelstpierre @seempaq 👀

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James Sell @jaysellar

2 years ago

The dropship marketplaces of large retailers are the easiest way for brands to get their foot in the door, so acquiring Codisto last year to support these integrations on the platform level was the right move

Harley Finkelstein @harleyf

2 years ago

If you’re selling today, you need to be everywhere potential customers are, period. We’re constantly unlocking opportunities for our merchants to reach new customers wherever they shop. So today, I’m proud to announce our partnership with @Target. Now, our US @Shopify merchants

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James Sell @jaysellar

2 years ago

@brendamarienyc Thanks Brenda I miss you all too 😢 Hopefully I’ll see you at the Toronto Partner Meetup after Editions. I’ll be working door for the first part of the night but I’ll be around after to catch up!

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James Sell @jaysellar

2 years ago

Glad to see Shopify investing in the Theme Partner Program. Fair % to adjust the rev share to granted some of those proceeds will be reinvested into improving the experience. Hoping the biz model can allow for subs the future, something I advocated for during my time there

Thomas @kimurathomas

2 years ago

Shopify announced some big updates for theme partners very cool! - Anti-piracy support - Theme store algorithm changes - New rev share for theme sales shopify.com/partners/blog/…