Article 20NFG I tried to do my shopping with Amazon Dash buttons so you don't have to

I tried to do my shopping with Amazon Dash buttons so you don't have to

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Samuel Gibbs
from on (#20NFG)

Doing your shopping by pressing buttons in your home sounds like a great labour-saving life-hack " and then you get 45 toilet rolls arrive in one go

The internet of shopping is finally here: magic-like buttons that when pressed have goods delivered to your door, without any need to log on to a website or get out your credit card. The branded Dash buttons are Amazon's latest offering to make it easier to shop, so I bought a load of them to find out whether it's the retail revolution we didn't even know we were looking for.

There is no Dash button for ordering Dash buttons, so I looked though the 40 or so available and found eight for things I would normally buy. They're 5 each, so I spent 40 for this convenience, but with the promise 5 would be taken off the first purchase made with each button making them free in the long run.

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