The software side of it has not helped. I blame the state of frontend web development rather than databases, payment gateways and other backend aspects. Not ev

The software side of it has not helped. I blame the state of frontend web development rather than databases, payment gateways and other backend aspects. Not every mom and pop store has a six figure sum to throw to an agency for them to spend six months under delivering a website for them with the 'latest agile methods'. We sort of have ourselves to blame, the hubris and pathetic development approaches that go with ecommerce have killed the market for mom and pop ecommerce stores. This is really bad for web development, the customer and the independent retailer.