You'll Soon Be Able To Text Alexa To Shop On Amazon

Amazon has begun inviting select US customers to test a new Alexa for Shopping feature that lets users text the AI agent with shopping requests, including weekly grocery orders, gift searches, and re-orders, ahead of a broader rollout in the coming weeks. The agent also accepts photo attachments to find product matches, adds approved items to the cart, and completes orders, with requests syncing across the Amazon Shopping app and website. Users can additionally set sale alerts and check up to a year of pricing history, as well as track delivery status, by text. The invite-only launch requires linking a phone number, after which accepted testers see "Alexa Shopping" in their contacts. The feature deepens Amazon's push to make its AI assistant a transactional shopping channel rather than just a voice or list tool, and its performance with early testers will signal how quickly Amazon expands access and how much of its retail volume shifts to conversational ordering.