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Today’s Pickup: Shopify’s fulfillment strategy ‘validated’ by COVID-19

A warehouse worker with a robot at a Shopify fulfillment facility.

Good day,

Shopify had its single-largest increase in merchants joining its fulfillment network during the first quarter, the company said today as it reported financial results.

Canada-based Shopify did not disclose any specifics about the growth of its fulfillment business. But executives made clear that its push into fulfillment takes on renewed importance as COVID-19 accelerates brick-and-mortar stores shift online.

“I think COVID-19 validates the decision to go into fulfillment,” Shopify Chief...

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