Finding a good development partner for a retail project is harder than it sounds. Most agencies we talked to treated it like a generic web build they didn't think about things like returns flow, multi-location stock, or seasonal load on the backend. A colleague pointed me to a
retail development services overview that showed what domain-aware development actually looks like in practice. That's the kind of framing I was missing when comparing vendors. Curious what others used to vet teams portfolio only, or did you do technical interviews too?