What happens when you use Amazon's Alexa for holiday shopping

Amazon Alexa has never sounded or looked better. NEW YORK – It was a few weeks before Christmas and time to put my voice assistant to the test: Could I just shout out the gifts I needed to buy without having to get on a smartphone or computer? Alexa, the virtual assistant inside my Echo Dot from Amazon, is really good at reordering stuff I already bought on the online shopping site. But asking it to order new items was trickier: I had to be precise and know exactly what I wanted to buy. There were times I had to rephrase orders until it could understand me.