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I'm not saying Alexa would be used more, but what if it confirmed with you on either the quantity or the last quantity of the item you ordered?

"The same order of Tide Pods as last time?"



You can get burned real bad by this if the specific product SKU gets discontinued and the price spikes 10x because now they're called Tide Pods Original.


Except then you have to wonder if the price changed. Or if something else about the listing changed.


It seems the simplest form of code for software that says the last time you ordered tide pods it was $10 for 1 pound now it is $10 for 1/10 of a pound. Do you want to continue?


The kind of organization that is politically capable of creating something like this could successfully run Alexa the way Amazon is trying to run it too. Or in a lot of different ways.

But Amazon can't.




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