USA Today's Jefferson Graham suggests tips on the best way to shop through Amazon's home assistant, Alexa. LOS ANGELES -- Alexa is great for listening to music and answering trivia questions, but when it comes to shopping...well, that's another story. If you have one of the classic Echo speakers, you know that there are no visuals to see the product in question and once Alexa makes suggestions, it's hard to comparison shop or get the best prices. But Amazon wants you to buy this way, and throws some special deals that can only be accessed by asking Alexa for them. On Prime Day, many specials will be Alexa-only.

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