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This service already exists, and has predictably also gone bankrupt. LootCrate™ will ship you a selection of plastic garbage monthly! Very cool!

A subscription might work. You pay us $x a month and we use AI-magic to decide which products to send you.

But you'd have to have either a very good model or a very good way of handling returns.

Isn't that basically what book clubs and the like have been doing for at least 80+ years?

Actually that would be amazing. But it has to solve privacy, cover cost of wrong items and never ship crocked fakes.

It would be terrible because without going through the decision process myself, how would I even know that what I got is what I would have chosen?

In US you have 500 types of soda, but at the end it is just a soda. The same applies for tools, house stuff etc. There are more important things in life than decision process.