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Amazon's Alexa Adds Ability to Order from Best Buy

posted by martyb on Monday November 06 2017, @12:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-is-next? dept.

takyon writes:

Electronics retailer Best Buy, considered an Amazon competitor, will sell a limited selection of products through Amazon's Alexa:

In an odd turn for retail cooperation, Best Buy is now available on Alexa, Amazon's voice-powered digital assistant. Starting today, you can learn about and order Best Buy's Deal of the Day sales just by saying, "Alexa, talk to Best Buy." Sure, it seems odd to have a competing service on Amazon's own devices, but as the blog post from Best Buy points out, the big box store has been selling Amazon Alexa devices in a special section in about 700 of its stores earlier this year.

Best Buy is only the latest retailer to jump on the voice-shopping trend, too. Walmart and Target both offer home shopping via Google Assistant.

Also at CNET and eSellerCafe.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @05:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @05:36PM (#593182)

    This is a story? Pretty sure this should be left to sites that allow sidebars to be overrun with blinky bullshit and autoplay asphyxiates.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by chromas on Monday November 06 2017, @09:12PM

    by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 06 2017, @09:12PM (#593308) Journal

    The real story is that Best Buy is still around. I thought they went under years ago.