Amazon lets you text Alexa to do your shopping now

Amazon started rolling out texting with Alexa for Shopping on November 6: invited U.S. customers can now text the agent — the contact shows up in their phone as 'Alexa Shopping' — and it searches products, compares options, builds the cart and completes purchases, then sends delivery updates in the same thread. It can take a photo of a recipe and buy the ingredients, watch for a target price, or reorder detergent on one line of text.

The agent remembers what customers tell it — vegan-only, marathon training, organic — and carries a conversation across text, app, website and Alexa devices. More than 400 million customers used Alexa for Shopping in the last year, and agentic-feature use is up eightfold since January. The rollout expands to millions more in the coming weeks, and it lands two months after Amazon blocked Meta's Muse shopping agent from crawling its listings.