Amazon’s $13.7 billion dollar acquisition of Whole Foods is getting all the media attention right now, but the company made another grocery-related investment last week that’s just as interesting: it’s basically giving the new Dash Wand with Alexa away for free. Prime members who spend $20 on the Dash Wand get a $20 Amazon gift card and 90 days of free AmazonFresh grocery delivery, which normally costs $15 per month. All of Amazon’s marketing around the Dash Wand focuses on ordering groceries; the default shopping cart when you use it is AmazonFresh, not Amazon proper.
That’s a hell of a way to kickstart the idea of Amazon delivering groceries — and eventually Amazon delivering groceries from Whole Foods. And it’s another way to sneak...
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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/6/20/15840814/amazon-dash-wand-alexa-review
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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/06/amazons-new-dash-wand-is-half-magic.html
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