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How does shopping with one even work in practice? Most items I buy on Amazon require careful scrutiny to make sure I’m getting the right thing. What I want is a

How does shopping with one even work in practice? Most items I buy on Amazon require careful scrutiny to make sure I’m getting the right thing. What I want is almost never the first result. This is true even in areas that feel like they should be easy, like video games.

jasonlotito 2y ago
It's great for repeat items. Stuff I've bought before I need more of. Buy "X" and the first item is the thing I've bought before. I use it that way when I know I need it, but I don't want to forget. So I just say it, and it's done and I don't need to remember or record it somewhere or pull out a phone or what have you. I use it sometimes for new items, usually when I know what I want and I specify brand. If it's not the first item, I can easily see the other options on the screen and it's not much to say to buy the second or third item on the list.
- eastbound 2y ago
  But they jack up the prices every few months, right? You can get the original at the original price, but from the new vendor “OUFIOU”…
dylan604 2y ago
For those that do have an Alexa, how does this work? Do you have to haggle with Alexa, and then it picks from the different sellers that meets your haggling? It seems like a much longer conversation is needed than "Alexa, add Tide Pods to my list" as Amazon propaganda wants you to believe.
- fckgw 2y ago
  If you say "add Tide Pods" then it adds the most popular listing of Tide Pods, shipped and sold by Amazon to your cart. Which is how 98% of people buy stuff on Amazon already. You may have to specify a quantity but if you're adding detergent, paper towels or whatever else popular, name brand item it's pretty straight forward.
mihaaly 2y ago
I'd imagine a shopping list could mean any vague things from nerby grocery (i.e milk, and if there are eggs then 6) to electronics (a sound recorder for my wife) without much specificity. To refine later or already have family understanding (eggs = organic vary large ones from black tail hens of the Fen Farm). A vocal fridge board basically. Shopping lists do not imply ordering items Right Now! Now! Neither a specific marketplace at a specific time with specific stock. Just a record about something. That the user will pick up and do something about it in a follow up step. E.g. clear a single item because fuck that sound recorder!

jasonlotito 2y ago

It's great for repeat items. Stuff I've bought before I need more of. Buy "X" and the first item is the thing I've bought before. I use it that way when I know I need it, but I don't want to forget. So I just say it, and it's done and I don't need to remember or record it somewhere or pull out a phone or what have you. I use it sometimes for new items, usually when I know what I want and I specify brand. If it's not the first item, I can easily see the other options on the screen and it's not much to say to buy the second or third item on the list.

eastbound 2y ago
But they jack up the prices every few months, right? You can get the original at the original price, but from the new vendor “OUFIOU”…

dylan604 2y ago

For those that do have an Alexa, how does this work? Do you have to haggle with Alexa, and then it picks from the different sellers that meets your haggling? It seems like a much longer conversation is needed than "Alexa, add Tide Pods to my list" as Amazon propaganda wants you to believe.

fckgw 2y ago
If you say "add Tide Pods" then it adds the most popular listing of Tide Pods, shipped and sold by Amazon to your cart. Which is how 98% of people buy stuff on Amazon already. You may have to specify a quantity but if you're adding detergent, paper towels or whatever else popular, name brand item it's pretty straight forward.

mihaaly 2y ago

I'd imagine a shopping list could mean any vague things from nerby grocery (i.e milk, and if there are eggs then 6) to electronics (a sound recorder for my wife) without much specificity. To refine later or already have family understanding (eggs = organic vary large ones from black tail hens of the Fen Farm). A vocal fridge board basically. Shopping lists do not imply ordering items Right Now! Now! Neither a specific marketplace at a specific time with specific stock. Just a record about something. That the user will pick up and do something about it in a follow up step. E.g. clear a single item because fuck that sound recorder!