Ian Black is Shopify's director of retail. Shopify Ian Black is the director of retail for Shopify, an e-commerce platform that helps retailers set up online stores.Black’s team is dedicated to expanding Shopify’s products beyond e-commerce to support brick-and-mortar retailers with products that support all points of sale.When the pandemic hit North America, Shopify paused all of its plans so it could focus on putting out products it knew would help merchants survive. Shopify aims to create products that enable smaller businesses to compete with retail giants like Walmart and Amazon. But it also partners with Walmart to help merchants reach