Blog – Darko Pavic – Global Retail & Fiscalization Expert

Retail

By Darko Pavic
February 3, 2026

Shopify’s POS Hub Is a Small Box With a Big Message: Cloud Retail Still Needs an Edge

In Shopify’s January 2026 “retail release roundup,” the first announcement is not a new AI feature or a new analytics dashboard. It’s hardware: POS Hub, a compact device meant to sit at the checkout...

Fiscalization, Retail, VAT

By Darko Pavic
January 29, 2026

Bosnia’s Next Fiscalization System Won’t Live in the Cash Register

The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has moved a long-discussed fiscalization overhaul from “eventually” to “now.” In late January 2026, the Parliament’s House of Peoples adopted the Law on Fiscalization of Transactions, and the...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
January 29, 2026

Slovakia’s E‑Commerce Rulebook in 2026

What the new sales-records regime changes, and what remains non‑negotiable in consumer protection, pricing and online contracting. Slovakia is the kind of market that looks simple on a map and complex in the checkout....

Retail

By Darko Pavic
January 28, 2026

The POS Industry Is Finally Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Fiscal Compliance Can’t Live Inside the Register Foreve

Retail technology is having one of those rare “architecture moments,” when a product announcement quietly reveals a much bigger shift in how the industry will operate for the next decade. Aptos’ latest press release...

Business, Retail, VAT

By Darko Pavic
January 26, 2026

OECD Is Quietly Rewiring Retail Compliance — What Retailers and POS Vendors Should Watch in 2026

A practical, international lens on why “standards” from Paris end up reshaping checkout, invoicing and audit trails worldwide. A checkout used to be the end of a story: the customer pays, a receipt prints,...

Retail, Technology

By Darko Pavic
January 24, 2026

Your AI Assistant Is Lying to You — Unless Your Retail Data Looks Like This (1,803 EuroShop Exhibitors, Proof Inside)

I wanted to learn what “AI-ready data” really means in practice, so I built an enrichment pipeline from scratch and stress‑tested it on the EuroShop 2026 exhibitor list. Here’s what broke, what I changed,...

Retail

By Darko Pavic
January 24, 2026

From Raw Retail Data to Agentic AI

Why this matters (and why it’s suddenly urgent) Retail leaders don’t need more AI demos. They need AI that survives contact with reality: promotions that stack, returns without receipts, offline stores, marketplace taxes, and...

Business, Retail, Technology

By Darko Pavic
January 15, 2026

The Substack Revolution: Why Retail Giants and Celebs Are Ditching Social Media for Owned Audiences in 2026

If you've followed my journey, you know I'm all about transparency, innovation, and cutting through the noise. That's exactly why I fell in love with Substack. No algorithms burying your posts, no fleeting trends...

Retail

By Darko Pavic
January 13, 2026

China Just Turned Platforms Into Tax Infrastructure

China is building a “data-first” tax system. Platforms are the new tax rails. China’s tax story for 2025–2026 is not just “more enforcement.” It is a structural upgrade: turning the country’s biggest digital platforms...

Retail

By Darko Pavic
January 10, 2026

Mexico’s Fiscalization System

What Retailers and POS/E-commerce Vendors Must Get Right Before Launch Mexico is not a “fiscal printer” country. It is an online fiscalization market built around electronic tax documents and real-time (or near-real-time) validation. If...