Amazon Alexa Plus Adds Automatic Price Tracking and Purchasing Features
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Jess Weatherbed
5mo ago· 3 min readenNews
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Summary
Amazon is launching new Alexa Plus shopping features that enable automatic price tracking and purchasing. The AI-powered assistant can monitor products and automatically buy them when prices drop below a user-specified threshold. These features, announced in February and rolling out since June, are part of a new shopping experience available on Echo Show devices.
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Amazon is launching Alexa Plus shopping features that make it easier to track your orders and avoid missing out on deals.
These Alexa Plus price-tracking features, which were announced in February and started rolling out to Alexa Plus users in June.
Amazon is launching new Alexa Plus shopping features that make it easier to track your orders and avoid missing out on deals
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