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BREAKING: New York's popular PopUp Bagels has plans to expand across the country, from 30 stores to 100 locations open by the end of 2027. Its focus on a simple menu of five bagels and three cream cheese schmears allows for efficient operations.

“Shopify” is deadass a criminal enterprise they froze $82,000 from a brand i know They said they were going to hold it indefinitely. No appeal possible… talked to a guy last week who lost his entire business because of this. he got an email that said "potential risk identified" and a dashboard full of money he couldn't touch couldn't pay suppliers. couldn't fulfill orders. couldn't run ads. just watched everything collapse while Shopify held his cash and here's what nobody tells you when you're excited about scaling... you don't own shit. you're renting infrastructure from a company that can legally pause your entire operation whenever they feel like it. read the terms of service sometime. they can hold x "suspicious activity" - held "higher than normal refunds" - held "we felt like it" - held the subscription piece makes this 10x worse because those aren't just transactions, those are recurring customers you spent real money to acquire. when Shopify freezes you mid-scale you can't fulfill, customers churn, and when funds finally release you're rebuilding from zero this is why the brands doing serious numbers moved their subscription infrastructure off Shopify entirely. keep the storefront, own everything underneath. checkout, payments, customer data, all controlled by them not Shopify sounds paranoid until you're the guy in my DMs asking if there's any way to speed up the unfreeze process there isn't. I asked wouldn't even be an issue if you owned your sub stack from the start ofc. Apptics exists specifically for this.. Shopify throws a tantrum and your subscribers keep paying through infrastructure you actually control but most people won't do this until after they get fucked. just how it goes