AI shopping assistants revive long-tail businesses: 'page 12,345 is now one prompt away'
jeff_weinstein · x · 2026-09-08
Quoting praise for AI shopping with Fable/Astra — full-service from search to try-on/returns, inventory, and outfit matching — Jeff Weinstein adds that he's discovering more places and buying from more long-tail businesses than ever: what was buried on search result page 12,345 is now just one good prompt away.
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