#BlinkTank: Meta joins Shopify's AI shopping channels Meta appeared as a new AI channel in Shopify admins last week. For eligible stores, direct checkout is on by default, which means a US customer can buy from you without visiting your site. After that, Shopify has bought Tailwind Labs, there's a fix for anyone who has been juggling barcodes across Amazon and Google Shopping, and Google Ads has a new metric that puts a number on what your first-party data setup is actually recovering. We've...