{"id":309747,"date":"2025-12-10T23:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309747\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:19:12","slug":"the-future-of-amazon-is-here-alexa-can-now-cut-you-out-of-the-loop-and-order-products-for-you-when-the-price-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309747\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of Amazon is here \u2013 Alexa+ can now cut you out of the loop and order products for you when the price drops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexa+ can now buy discounted items for youChoose your item and set your price in advanceIt’s part of a wider Alexa+ shopping upgrade<\/p>\n

Amazon<\/a> has announced a range of new shopping features rolling out to its Alexa+ AI assistant<\/a> \u2013 including a new option to automatically buy products that you’re after when they hit a lower price, which sounds like it might not be all that good for your bank balance.<\/p>\n

This was actually announced back in February<\/a>, but is now rolling out to early testers in the US and Canada, as per The Verge<\/a>. It’s also part of a new Shopping Essentials interface upgrade that is appearing first on the Echo Show 15 and Echo Show 21 displays.<\/p>\n

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Here’s how it works: you tell the bot about an item you want to buy, and a price threshold to watch out for. You then have the option to give Alexa+ permission to automatically buy that product once it hits that price, using your default purchase and delivery details.<\/p>\n

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It’s reassuring to see some level of control there \u2013 but I can imagine queueing up a variety of deals that I want to take advantage of, forgetting about them, and then being met with a flurry of purchase notifications once the next sales season<\/a> rolls around.<\/p>\n

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Alexa+ is also going to be able to keep an eye on your current shopping cart and your wishlists for potential deal opportunities, and the same auto-buy feature can be found in the Rufus AI assistant that lives on the Amazon website and in the Amazon mobile apps.<\/p>\n

As for the wider Shopping Essentials upgrade, it brings all of your important Amazon data together in one place for ease and convenience: current orders, items out for delivery, products on your shopping lists that you’re planning to buy, and so on.<\/p>\n

Other additions coming to Alexa+ are personalized gifts suggestions \u2013 so you describe who you’re buying for to the AI and it picks out some ideas \u2013 and the option to add new items to a delivery at the last minute, right up until it leaves the Amazon warehouse.<\/p>\n

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Alexa+ remains in beta testing and is still invite only, with users in the US and Canada able to request access: here’s how to go about it<\/a>. You’ll also need one of the newer smart displays too \u2013 the Echo Show 8, Echo Show 10, Echo Show 15, or Echo Show 21.<\/p>\n

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