Alexa has brought “Shopping List Savings” into the Alexa app, allowing it to scan receipts for eligible products from any store to earn coin rewards, TechCrunch reported. You may not be charged anything for using it and you will get coins on your Amazon gift card to use on any item on Amazon. The problem is that the formula will provide Amazon with a ton of valuable knowledge about your grocery shopping habits, even when you’re not shopping on their site.
Its use is simple. Just search for the Alexa app to find the available deals and then upload them to your shopping list. You can buy the deals at your “referral grocery store” (or pharmacy, or any store where you can get a detailed receipt) and scan the product receipt and barcodes to change them. This will earn you cash directly on your Amazon gift card, regularly in 24 to 48 hours, which can be used to buy anything on Amazon.
Amazon doesn’t know how its knowledge will be used nor does it promise to anonymize it, as TechCrunch points out. Instead, it only states that “we will obtain all the data you provide, adding photographs of receipts and data that we can extract from receipts, as well as the data that you activate. You perceive and acknowledge that your private data may be shared with Amazon’s service providers. “
Amazon is the only company that provides such a service, as it can also get monetary praise from Fetch, Ibotta, and other companies in exchange for your acquired data. The amount of praise based on the product appears to be offer by offer, and you can check the prestige of the payment at any time on the Get Paid page under “Find Savings. “The source appears to be limited to the US, for now.