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Key takeaways

• Alexa+ can shop within your budget and check out automatically.
• The feature automates the shopping experience.
• Rolling out on Echo Show 15 and 21, with more devices coming.

A new Alexa+ shopping feature is rolling out that can not only monitor for lower prices on an item, but also predict and even automatically buy something when the price drops. The new feature is designed to provide Alexa users with a more proactive shopping experience, allowing them to find the best prices on items without having to search for them themselves.

How it works

As part of the Shopping Essentials dashboard, the new feature will initially roll out to the Echo Show 15 and Echo Show 21 and is expected to be made available to other Echo devices later.

To shop for the best price, Alexa uses AI to track prices and then buy designated items. You can always choose which items you want Alexa+ to track, and then the voice assistant can alert you with a notification when an item's price drops to your target. After that, it can also automatically purchase the item for you -- but only when it hits the price that you want.

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For example, if you wanted to save on a $900 robot vacuum and tell Alexa+ to buy it when its price drops below $400, then the voice assistant will buy it for you automatically once the price drops below $400.

Shopping Essentials

This Alexa+ feature will be presented in the form of a new Shopping Essentials hub. You'll be able to see this in your Echo Show 15 and 21, with other models planned to get an update in the coming weeks.

The Shopping Essentials is like a new centralized shopping dashboard with suggestions for household essentials, shopping lists, "save for later" items, recent orders, and even real-time delivery tracking. You can activate this by saying, "Alexa, where's my stuff?" or "Alexa, open shopping."

Also: What is Alexa+? Everything you need to know about Amazon's new AI assistant

Much like the Amazon app does already, the Alexa+ voice assistant can also nudge you to add items to an upcoming delivery if you have something that ships within the next few days. This feature adds to Amazon's goal of expanding Alexa's usefulness.

Alexa+ offers a similar experience of having a shopping concierge, which can now deliver a comparable experience to the Rufus AI chatbot on the Amazon website and app.

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