Shopify Support Fails to Provide Timely Follow-Up on Merchant Issues
Shopify merchants report multi-day waits for responses to support tickets with no status updates between contacts. Repeated live chat escalations do not accelerate resolution or provide case visibility. This leaves merchants with unresolved blocking issues during active operations.
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