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Amazon Echo Can Take Orders For Flowers

1-800-Flowers.com is partnering with Amazon.com to make the digital ordering process even easier. The specialty floral gift retailer will allow customers to place orders using the Amazon Alexa voice-activated artificial intelligence platform via the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot and Tap smart home devices and Fire TV streaming media player. 1-800-Flowers shoppers will be able to give Alexa basic ordering instructions, and the retailer will then process the order and arrange delivery. 1-800-Flowers is the first third party e-commerce retailer to utilize this technology on Alexa-enabled devices.

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