Grok Bot Rolls Out a New Shopping Experience: Find the Best Deal, Compare Product Cards, and Track Orders After You Approve the Buy
On November 3, the official Grok Bot account @bot posted a video promoting a new shopping experience: have the Bot find the best deal, compare items, and track all your orders. The features come from the official changelog for version 0.78.1 (which includes 0.78.0), dated October 27: products appear as cards with photo, rating, price and store plus up to two badges, and three or four results scroll in a carousel. Product pages list in-stock options first, and Buy now starts an order you approve. After purchase the Bot tracks shipping and delivery, with shipment cards showing carrier and stage. Shop Pay can be connected in the Vault Payments tab and set as the preferred method.
Key Takeaways
- The official post went out at 21:50 UTC on November 3 with a 17-second demo video; about 1,687 likes, 122 reposts, 292 replies and 112K views at fetch time
- Source of the features: the official 0.78.1 changelog entry (October 27, includes 0.78.0), titled Shopping cards and subscription templates
- Product cards: photo, rating, price and store, up to 2 badges such as Top rated, 3 or 4 results in a carousel; product pages list in-stock options first and disable options no store has
- Ordering and tracking: orders started with Buy now need your approval; afterward the Bot reports shipping and arrival, and shipment cards show carrier and stage
- Payments: the Vault has had a Payments tab since 0.77.0 (October 26); 0.78.1 lets you connect Shop Pay and make it the method Bots use first
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