How the Weekly Edit is selected

Every Sunday, StorkScout selects 25 baby and parent products from Shopify merchants. The edit keeps useful continuity from the previous issue, fills open places from StorkScout's baby-product reference set, and verifies every listing against Shopify Catalog before it can appear.

What we keep

StorkScout stores the Shopify product identifier, its own baby-category classification, safety decisions, and selection history. We do not retain Shopify Catalog search results, merchant images, prices, availability, seller details, product copy, or review counts.

When the edit is built or viewed, those merchant fields are requested live from Shopify. If a listing cannot be resolved live, it is left out instead of falling back to an old copy.

How order is decided

Products that remain eligible keep the order of the previous issue. Vacancies are filled from StorkScout's highest-confidence baby-product references, with newer discoveries used as the final tie-break. This makes the list stable enough to follow while still allowing unavailable and newly discovered products to move through it.

Live eligibility checks

• Sold by a Shopify merchant discoverable through the Shopify Global Catalog.
• In stock, purchasable, with a real product page and a product photo.
• Priced between $5 and $500.
• Classified by StorkScout as a baby or parent product with high confidence.
• Uses a clear product title and is not a gift card, greeting card, bundle builder, or unrelated general-use product.
• Passes the safety exclusion list (below).

Diversity caps

A single shop caps at 2 positions per week and a single category at 4, applied in selection order. A full 25-pick issue therefore has to represent at least 7 of StorkScout's 8 shopping chapters. Without caps, one shop or one runaway category could dominate the edit and make it less useful.

What we never do

• Rank anything on the safety exclusion list: car seats and bases, inclined sleepers, crib bumpers, sleep positioners, weighted swaddles and sleep sacks, baby walkers, formula, medication.
• Accept paid placement or "featured" upsells into the Weekly Edit. Its selection is independent and never sold.
• Use affiliate commission or promoted-placement status as an editorial input.
• Sell parent data.

Honest limitations

• The Weekly Edit is an editorial discovery list, not a sales chart, popularity poll, or claim about the whole baby market.
• Shopify Catalog coverage and live listing availability determine what can appear at the moment an issue is built or viewed.
• Live Catalog fields can change between visits. That is intentional: StorkScout shows the current merchant listing rather than a frozen copy.

Cadence

The Weekly Edit builds each Sunday from durable identifiers and live Shopify Catalog lookups. Each issue lives at its own permanent URL. If live Catalog cannot verify 25 eligible entries, StorkScout keeps the prior issue rather than publishing a weak issue.