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Agent-placed orders raise return rates, disrupt inventory forecasting, increase the difficulty of payment fraud detection, and may bypass the platform's recommendation slots and ad display logic, which are the operational cost considerations behind platforms blocking agents.
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Walmart Opens Its Shelves to AI Agents While Amazon Builds Walls: The E-Commerce Agent Battle
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