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We’re about to do a kitchen reno and also own a small business that’s about to move. The dishwasher at the office and the one at home are matching (bought at the same time to get a better deal).

We’re a family of 4, and my partner is a great cook and enjoys cooking. Given the amount of dishes we generated with every meal, we could easily use two dishwashers.

We are considering: bring the dishwasher from the office home so we have two matching dishwashers.

Everyone we’ve talked to who have two dishwashers love it. But we need a wider base of opinions before we make a decision that is that is nearly permanent (this will probably be our first and last kitchen reno).

Thanks in advance for your input! 🙏

With gas prices so high, what are some driving habits that could help save gas in the long run? I drive to work daily to an area not serviced by public transit, so driving less isn’t an option. I need other solutions… Even small ones that can compound over time.

I’ve gamified my fuel economy gauge to try and get it as low as possible. So far been successful by accelerating slower, coasting more and being mindful of unnecessary brake usage (which is literally undoing the acceleration I used gas for). But I feel like I’ve plateaued in my fuel economy. What are some other tips?

For context, “normal” driving for me was using about 10 L/100km, now I’ve got it down to about 7.5-8 …so that’s about 20% savings, which is already pretty huge imo. But I want to take it further.

So this just dropped last week and I haven’t seen anyone in the merchant community talking about it.
Tetra Trust launched CADD, a Canadian-dollar stablecoin, backed 1:1 by actual CAD reserves, approved by Alberta regulators. And Shopify is literally one of the investors. National Bank of Canada, Wealthsimple, and ATB Financial are also in on it.
For context, Shopify already rolled out USDC (USD stablecoin) payments earlier this year through Coinbase and Stripe. That one is opt-out by default, meaning you’re already accepting it unless you turned it off. CADD seems like the next logical step for Canadian merchants specifically.
Here’s what I’m trying to figure out as a small Canadian e-commerce operator:
On the merchant side:
- do USDC get converted to CADD and what are the FX implications?
- Right now CADD seems targeted at institutions and banks, not merchants. When does that change?
- If this eventually plugs into Shopify Payments like USDC did… does it actually lower my processing fees?

On the customer side:
- Does anyone actually want to pay for products with a stablecoin? What are the advantages/incentives for a customer?
- Or is this more of a B2B / wholesale / international buyer thing?
- Do regular shoppers even know what a stablecoin is?

I’m genuinely curious whether you all see this as meaningful or just noise. I’m not a crypto person at all, I just run a Shopify store and I’m trying to figure out if I should be paying attention to this.

What do you think? Is CADD going to matter for everyday merchants, or is this a “big banks playing with blockchain” thing that never actually reaches the checkout page?