{"id":984165,"date":"2026-01-08T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984165"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:39:58","slug":"why-amazons-retailers-may-not-be-happy-with-its-ai-shopping-tool-company-replies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/08\/why-amazons-retailers-may-not-be-happy-with-its-ai-shopping-tool-company-replies\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Amazon\u2019s retailers may not be \u2018happy\u2019 with its AI shopping tool; company replies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s new AI shopping tool may disappoint online retailers who claim their products are being listed on the e-commerce site without their permission. The features, called \u201cShop Direct\u201d and \u201cBuy for Me,\u201d allow customers to browse and buy items from other websites directly through the Amazon app. Business owners have raised concerns on platforms like Reddit and Instagram, claiming they never agreed to be part of the programme.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBuy for Me\u201d tool uses an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to complete orders on other websites for Amazon customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s new AI shopping tool may disappoint online retailers who claim their products are being listed on the e-commerce site without their permission. The features, called \u201cShop Direct\u201d and \u201cBuy for Me,\u201d allow customers to browse and buy items from other websites directly through the Amazon app. Business owners have raised concerns on platforms like Reddit and Instagram, claiming they never agreed to be part of the programme. The \u201cBuy for Me\u201d tool uses an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to complete orders on other websites for Amazon customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}