Shopify's Product Display Disaster: A Call To Action To My Fellow Shopify Store Owners

[adamwhitney651]

To Whom It May Concern,

With the utmost curiousity:  I ask you to please hop on your site via desktop, guide yourself to one of your collections' pages, and collapse the window down to the left half of the screen - and then come back and tell me what you see.

My product line suffers untold preconcieved opinions of being subpar from Shopify's decision to display my product in distorted dimensions. 

I refuse to populate my site with additional product until it is displayed in its original form - as not just today's profits suffer - but my personal and professional reputation is affected in future context.

I am not the only Shopify user to experience this - or in 2024 - as these links provide a glimpse into a year's long problem: 

Why are my product images blurry on the collection page?

Why are my collection images blurry on my product pages?

Why are my Dawn theme collection images blurry?

Featured Collection Page Product Images Blurry (Dawn 9.0 ...

Dawn Theme Blurry Banner and Featured Collections Image

The product collection iamge are blurry,how to fix

Collection thumbnails blurry on Origin theme

Blurry Image Featured Collection in Craft Theme - shopify 

This is shopify's unmitigated product display crisis that appears to of handed its responsibility over to their community in an attempt for a possible jimmy rigging solution - I am completely confident in saying that this years old bug has resulted in tens of thousands of wasted hours and even more trial and error processes - equaling an unfathomable amount of wasted resources and missed profit opportunities. all the while an in-house solution is what it demands.

It's like, the one time music streaming industry leader, Soundcloud, refusing to turn their lossy mp3 catalog into lossless wav files - and because of this - they now sit in an almost obsolete status, much less an influence, within the music streaming industry.

Thank you for your time.

Adam Whitney

Sweet As Hell Designs

[adamwhitney651]

To My Readers,

UPDATE:

Upon contacting the Shopify Help Center and speaking to a help desk - they genuinely acknowledged my concern and ended the conversation by assuring me that my ticket will be fulfilled by the same support contact - a little while later i Recieved a message - part of which contained the following:

"Upon further investigation, we have discovered that the discrepancy of the quality reflected by your product images within the collection pages and the actual product pages is a known bug within the themes that are compatible with the Online Store 2.0 update. As a necessary step to assist with rectifying the issue, our Internal Teams has recommended further reaching this out to our Theme Support to make sure that they can directly assist you with the image uploads showing correctly.
 
I'm sending this email to inform you that I will now be sending this up over to our Theme Support Team as they have confirmed that this needs attention with their specialized department. I want to assure you that this is currently being taken care of. Please be informed that you will receive an email from the department once they have done the necessary things needed for our request. "

Thank you for your time.

Adam Whitney

Sweet As Hell Designs