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Amazon Haul–a broad selection of products $20 or less

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Is this Amazon’s competitive answer to Temu?

Yes: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/amazon-ai...

If it is, they totally missed the mark as I'm not seeing the electronic components and stuff that are the only reason I ever used Temu in the first place.

Temu is like the most downloaded app on Google play, fair to say most users aren't buying electronic components. They're buying clothes, cutlery and cookware.

This sounds like regular Amazon, but worse. Also it sounds like regular Aliexpress but worse. Could they have combined the worst features of both platforms?

Often Amazon already is a Aliexpress wrapper with hefty markups and faster free shipping. So now they drop some of the markup as well as the fast and free shipping?

Here's hoping the regular amazon shopping and search experience will improve, since they can push their enshittification efforts on amazon haul.

Because we don't have enough garbage in the ocean from all the "disposable", cheaply made products. Let's just keep churning out stuff that breaks within a year and fill up those landfills, oceans, and whatever else needed to pile them all in.

this is literally amazon temu

also

> Amazon screens the products sellers offer in Haul so customers can be confident they’ll receive products that are safe, authentic, and compliant with applicable regulations.

How is it possible for amazon to actually screen these products ?

They have various options, but as they manage logistics they will probably stock up products in their warehouses and perform sample tests (check out and open one or more boxes, intensively perform QA tests on their contents) as products are shipped in from the sellers.

Looks like they've launched this in India too - it's called bazaar here.

https://www.amazon.in/amazon-bazaar/welcome/

Why do we need this? It’s just full of cheap crap

If it gets the stuff off of the main site, I'd think it would be a net benefit...

Will Amazon be able to exploit the same direct shipping loophole that is why Temu exists?

Also, "mobile only" limitation is dumb.

I once bought something on Amazon.

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