• wuffah@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Why would a retailer turn down an additional resource that drives customers to their site?

    Amazon also rolled out a “Buy for Me” feature last year that surfaces products from other brands’ websites and lets shoppers complete purchases without leaving the Amazon app.

    Ah, that’s why.

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      3 months ago

      It’s like the skievier part of DoorDash listings, where they’d list restaurants that weren’t on the platform, make deliveries for them and send angry customers to them when DoorDash fucked it up.