Some AI "hallucinations" about your products are nothing of the sort: the engine faithfully quoted the stale page your own edge cache served it. Two cache layers sit between your catalog and the answer, and you control one of them.
Delivery promises age faster than any other commerce fact: cutoffs move, carriers slip, holiday calendars arrive. AI engines quote whatever timeframe they last read, and most stores last updated theirs in a theme edit nobody remembers.
Specialty coffee buyers ask assistants cupper questions: washed or natural for fruity notes, light roast for V60, fresh-roast subscriptions that ship fast. Roasters who publish their coffee data the way they talk at the bar own those answers, and the subscription that follows.
Live retrieval engines favor current pages, and stale facts become hallucinations. Here is what a Shopify store should update for AI search, how often, and why.