SOLVED | Google Merchant Center Error, Your Business Has No Local Stores

For WEEKS I have been trying to figure out how to solve an error within Google Merchant Center. Today, though, I received the solution.

The Problem

An e-commerce client of mine kept receiving this error in her Google Merchant Center account. Though she sells her products in some brick-and-mortar stores, she doesn’t have a brick-and-mortar of her own.

I tried contacting Shopify customer support (where her site is hosted) as well as scouring Google forums for answers. I even contacted my trusted Reddit community for clarity. I kept getting breadcrumbs, but no clear answers.

Finally, FINALLY, I was able to chat with Google support and they helped me clear this up. Here’s the form that I used to contact Google —> https://support.google.com/merchants/gethelp?sjid=10089039594190554615-NC

The Solution

I am sharing the solution below to save another helpless soul some precious time. 👇👇👇

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If this helped you, let me know in the comments. If you have another issue, I can try to offer guidance but honestly, I have found that Google dashboards are not usualy intuitive and therefore extremely frustrating to troubleshoot. If nothing else, I will definitely comiserate with you :)