タグ: shopping

On May 13, 2026, Amazon retired the standalone Rufus chatbot and replaced it with Alexa for Shopping, a new agentic AI assistant built straight into the main Amazon search bar. Rufus had helped over 300 million customers in 2025 research and compare products, so this is not a quiet tweak. The separate Rufus chat window is gone, and its recommendations and product expertise now live inside a single, more capable assistant. If you opened the Amazon app recently and noticed Rufus missing, you did not lose anything. This guide explains exactly what happened to Rufus, what Alexa for Shopping can do, how to access it for free, and whether the […]

An AI shopping assistant is the reason you can now type “find me a warm waterproof jacket under $120 with good reviews” into a chat box and get a real shortlist back in seconds. In 2026 these tools moved from novelty to mainstream, with traffic to retail sites from generative AI up 693% over the 2025 holiday season according to Adobe Analytics, and the biggest one, Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping, already used by over 250 million people. This guide explains what an AI shopping assistant actually is, what it does, how it differs from the old chatbots stuck on store websites, and which ones you can use today. You will […]

Let’s be honest. Grocery shopping isn’t exactly the most exciting activity. Most of us just want to be in and out of the shop as soon as possible.  In such instances, people make grocery lists. These lists give us a goal and an aim. We must buy “XYC” and then leave the shop – immediately.  However, this never happens, as grocery lists take too long to think about and write. As a result, we spend hours in a grocery store picking up junk food, spending over our budgets, and, generally, buying goods we don’t need.  But what if this time and effort was shortened? What if there was a way […]

Do you ever wish you had a second pair of eyes while you shop?  You know the ones that can help you come up with gift ideas, provide styling suggestions, or just help with choosing products?  Well, it’s your lucky day, as AI shopping assistants are here to help with just that.  These AI-powered assistants can give you shopping advice, from helping you pick a dress or shirt for a specific occasion all the way to purchasing the right gift for a loved one.  5 Use Cases for an AI Shopping Assistant  Gift Ideas Generally, humans are pretty bad gift-givers. An interesting survey by Survey Monkey discovered that 79% of […]