How to remove shipping delivery dates from checkout

Store Design

Topic summary

Updated Shopify themes (Empire and Pursuit) show estimated delivery dates at checkout, which the store wants to hide. Older theme versions did not display these dates.

Settings changes tried: both “Delivery expectations” toggles turned off and shipping date text deleted under “edit default theme content.” Despite this, the estimated dates still appear.

Code-level attempts: copied files from the old theme into the new one (sections > static-cart.liquid, snippets > cart-shipping.liquid, templates > cart.json), but the behavior remains unchanged across both updated themes.

Evidence provided: screenshots comparing Empire v12.0.0 (no estimate shown) vs Empire v12.2.1 (estimate shown). Images are central to illustrating the change.

Outcome: No solution identified; the poster seeks guidance on how to remove delivery date estimates in the updated themes. Discussion is open with unanswered questions.

Summarized with AI on December 19. AI used: gpt-5.
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I have downloaded the updated versions of our themes (Empire and Pursuit) and am setting them up from scratch. When I test it and reach the checkout page, it displays the estimated delivery dates, which we do not want to show.

In our previous versions of the themes, it does not display the dates. I made sure both toggles on the “Delivery expectations” are both clicked off and have deleted the shipping date info under “edit default theme content” as we usually do, but it still appears. I also tried copying over a few pages of code (sections > static-cart.liquid, snippets > cart-shipping.liquid, templates > cart.json) from the old theme to the new one, but no luck.

I have tested it on both new versions of the two themes and get the same result

Any idea what I should try next?

Example of the old version of the theme

empire v12.0.0 delivery estimate
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Example of the new version of the theme

empire v12.2.1 delivery estimate
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We currently have the older version of the theme published because we cannot have the delivery dates that are appearing on the new version.

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I think you can override it. You’d have to put something, but for my theme it seemed to work. Tried with just a space and it didn’t do anything. Needed to have some input.

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Unfortunately didn’t work for me

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Found it…. It was this one which I never saw

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