Shopping & Errands
Shop for cars on websites with a browser agent
The poster uses Muse to shop for cars online and finds a persistent logged-in browser profile with normal pacing works best as sites start blocking it.
Meta Muse
Shopping & Errands
Groceries, price hunting, returns, and the errands you keep putting off.
89 use cases
Shopping & Errands
Research purchases for delivered price and working coupons
The poster built an agent that compares real delivered prices, tests every coupon it finds, reads owner feedback and goes through checkout without ordering.
Other or custom
Shopping & Errands
Test OpenAI's Agent on online shopping
The agent got partway through buying dress shoes before the poster had to enter the card, then hit Amazon bot protection and could not reliably shop, book or reserve.
ChatGPT Agent
Shopping & Errands
Buy headphones during a sale with an AI agent
An AI agent bought headphones for the poster; they also use a browser extension for sale purchases and price-drop alerts.
Other or custom
Shopping & Errands
Fill a supermarket cart with agent mode for pickup
Agent mode added groceries to the cart at a local supermarket while the poster worked, for pickup the next morning.
ChatGPT Agent
Shopping & Errands
Plan and order a week of groceries with Claude
The poster used Claude on Mac and iOS to plan and order a week of groceries, with partial success, and will keep using it up to the grocery-list step.
Claude
Shopping & Errands
Turn a handwritten list into a grocery order
A TechRadar writer scans a handwritten shopping list into Alexa and places an Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods order from it to avoid crowded stores.
Alexa+
Shopping & Errands
Order groceries from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods
Alexa+ orders groceries, tracks past purchases and remembers recipes and dietary preferences.
Alexa+
Shopping & Errands
Schedule recurring restocking of household essentials
Users create Scheduled Actions in Alexa for Shopping to add kids' snacks monthly and restock pet food, paper towels and detergent; vendor material.
Alexa+
Shopping & Errands
Track rare coffee beans with a scheduled Dot
A user had a Dot monitor rare US coffee beans twice a day using context from old chats, and it returned Gesha options priced per cup.
Dots
Shopping & Errands
Monitor Amazon and eBay prices and email on changes
An n8n workflow checks product URLs from a Google Sheet three times a day, compares prices, emails changes and logs every check.
n8n
Shopping & Errands
Hand consumer errands to an always-on agent
A journalist tested Dot on ISP signup, an Ikea account and food ordering; it finished only some with human help, blocked by browser checks and payment steps.
Dots
Shopping & Errands
Order groceries online with a local LLM skill
The author built a grocery skill for a local Qwen 3.6 27B model that knows their fridge contents, past orders and real-time stock, and it ordered products for them online.
Other or custom
Shopping & Errands
Build group grocery carts through a Signal-based agent
A self-hosted Signal agent drafts a grocery list from past orders, lets group members edit it, then logs into the store and builds and validates the cart; the author finishes checkout manually.
Other or custom
Shopping & Errands
Buy items on Amazon from a photo
Author used ChatGPT Agent to reorder an item from a photo of its wrapper, handling the whole Amazon purchase until Amazon blocked agents.
ChatGPT Agent
Shopping & Errands
Plan meals, build grocery list and order food
ChatGPT Agent made recipes, a categorized grocery list with local prices and a Sheets export, and placed a DoorDash order but handed off for payment.
ChatGPT Agent
Shopping & Errands
Build a grocery cart from purchase history
Instacart's AI assistant built a 27-item cart from the shopper's purchase history, turned dinner ideas into carts and flagged unavailable items.
Other or custom
Shopping & Errands
Plan meals and fill an Instacart cart
The author used ChatGPT with the Instacart plugin to build a daily meal plan and put the ingredients into a ready-to-order shopping list.
ChatGPT