{
  "id": 16949669,
  "title": "Amazon Expands Shop Direct Catalog to Keep Shoppers Off AI Shopping Agents",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/amazon-expands-shop-direct-catalog-to-keep-shoppers-off-ai-shopping",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-28T20:09:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/commerce/ecommerce/2026/amazon-expands-shop-direct-catalog-keep-shoppers-off-ai-shopping-agents/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Amazon is expanding its Shop Direct initiative, which lists products from brands that don’t sell on its site, in an effort to keep shoppers coming to its site rather than using outside personal artificial intelligence agents, The Information reported Wednesday (Oct. 28). Since March, Amazon has increased the number of Shop Direct links by 2.5 […] The post Amazon Expands Shop Direct Catalog to…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}