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How AI shopping agents could change the way consumers buy everything online

Not too long ago, buying something online meant doing all of the work alone, hunting through site after site until the right product finally turned up. That routine is changing now that artificial intelligence assistants have started absorbing work that used to fall entirely to shoppers.

How AI shopping agents could change the way consumers buy everything online

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Not too long ago, buying something online meant doing all of the work alone, hunting through site after site until the right product finally turned up.

That routine is changing now that artificial intelligence assistants have started absorbing work that used to fall entirely to shoppers.

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Not too long ago, buying something online meant doing all of the work alone, hunting through site after site until the right product finally turned up. That routine is changing now that artificial intelligence assistants have started absorbing work that used to fall entirely to shoppers.

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